Platinum Dunes has announced that Jackie Earle Haley will be taking over the role of Freddy Krueger in their 2010 remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street.

The Oscar winning actor is famous for playing Kelly in the Bad News Bears and a child molester in the 2006 drama Little Children. He also became of fanboy favorite for playing Rorschach in Zack Snyder's Watchmen.

The first script review for the A Nightmare on Elm Street remake is in, and it comes via Latino Reviews. The draft they read is dated Jan 14, 2009 and is a 110 pages long. It was written by Wesley Strick with revisions by Eric Heisserer.

Wes Craven told MovieHole.net that he will not be checking out the new A Nightmare on Elm Street remake.

Craven says, "That’d be a tough one to re-see... If you move on from the films you’ve made - which I have tried always to move on - then it’s like, 'That’s in the past. It’s had his life.'

"If they make a better film, maybe it will eclipse the original. I don’t know. If they don’t, then the original will look even better."

The Hollywood Reporter's Risky Business Blog has announced that Samuel Bayer will be directing Platinum Dunes remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street. He is best known for directing Nirvana's award-winning "Smells Like Teen Spirit" video.

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