NIghtmare on Elm Street Remake gets it's Director

[GreenScar]

Music video and commercial director Samuel Bayer has been hired by Platinum Dunes to direct the remake of Nightmare on Elm Street, according to RiskyBiz. Bayer got his start directing music videos when Nirvana, according to legend, hired him to direct Smells Like Teen Spirit because his test reel was the worst one that the band had seen. As you know, the resulting video is considered a landmark music video which has consistently rated as one of the most influential music videos ever made. Bayer went on to helm some of the seminal alternative music videos of the 1990’s.

His music video filmography includes Blind Melon’s “No Rain”, Candlebox’s “You”, The Cranberries’ “Zombie”, Hole “Doll Parts”, The Offspring “Gotta Get Away”, Metallica’s “Until It Sleeps”, and Sheryl Crow’s “My Favorite Mistake”. Over the last decade he’s done videos for Blink182, Marilyn Manson, Lenny Kravitz, Aerosmith, Papa Roach, The Strokes and My Chemical Romance. Bayer also directed most of the videos for Green Day’s American Idiot album. Bayer won Director of the Year at the MTV Awards in 2005 and 2007, and several of his commercials have won the Clio (which is basically the Academy Awards for advertisements).

Wesley Strick (Cape Fear, Arachnophobia) is working on the screenplay that is supposedly strongly based on the first film in the series, but will borrow some elements from the entire franchise. They are taking a more serious and horrifying approach to the material. Dunes hopes to begin production in the Spring 2009 in the Chicago suburbs.

[Decepticon07]

Sounds like if it were a music video then it may be good

[Blu Titan]

Wow...just about every movie is getting a remake. I guess Hollywood is all out of ideas.

[Petra_Kalbrain]

I'll reserve judgement until I see some footage.

[J_UNTITLED]

Originally Posted by Blu Titan

Wow...just about every movie is getting a remake. I guess Hollywood is all out of ideas.

Not out of ideas, exactly -- just as risk-adverse as ever and therefore not betting on specs or original material.

[Sussudio]

awesome, just because rob zombie's halloween made more than its budget every single classic horror movie is now going to be resurrected

oh well.....

[MarkJ801]

This guy makes amazing music videos, hopefully that translates well into horror movies.

[jadedeath]

Originally Posted by Sussudio

awesome, just because rob zombie's halloween made more than its budget every single classic horror movie is now going to be resurrected

oh well.....

And... get a sequel... or 7.

Logan

[fatediesel]

Originally Posted by Sussudio

awesome, just because rob zombie's halloween made more than its budget every single classic horror movie is now going to be resurrected

oh well.....

This has been going on a lot longer that Rombie's Halloween. Consider The Hills Have Eyes, Amytiville Horror, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and I'm sure there's others I'm forgetting.

I'm not sure what to think of a music video guy directing this. Michael Bay came from music videos, but plenty of bad movies have been from former music video directors.

[Blu-Ron]

Not going anywhere near this.

[Moefiz]

Why would they even try and touch this....

[JamesKurtovich]

Sweet. I want to see it.

[Chris60119]

I thought it was going to be a prequil, not a remake. If done right this movie could rock. No Robert England or it will just be another Freddy movie.

[BIGLAD]

I will go to see it when it is released.

[fighthefutureofhd]

Originally Posted by Moefiz

Why would they even try and touch this....

the same could be said about the new friday the 13th remake, the halloween remake, or the dozens upon dozens of remakes that are greenlit year in year out. who knows?! hollywood is weird.