Jackie Earle Haley will be haunting children again...

They are re-vamping the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise and it was recently announced that Oscar nominated Little Children star Jackie Earle Haley (pictured above) will be starring as Freddy Krueger. Scared yet? Haley was terrifing, brilliant, and heartbreaking as the pedophile in Little Children, I can't wait to see what he brings to this iconic movie monster role. The film will delve into the psyche of what makes Freddie who he is, showing him before he was burned alive, and after. Haley is taking the part very seriously saying,
"This version of Freddy is focusing [on] less camp and a little bit more of the scarier side. There's a little more focus on, what makes this guy who he is? There's a bit of a deeper kind of look at him. In my research I really started to delve into serial killers. I was studying Ed Kemper. They did a movie on him. It was a total slasher movie. It kind of pissed me off. And that's when I realized I'm playing a bogeyman, you know? That's what I'm really trying to embrace, but at the same time find out what makes this bogeyman tick. I think that when you start to get a sense of what makes somebody tick and you realize that [his] clock is kind of ticking out of whack, that's scary. That scares me in this world."

Haley is a true actor, and it will be wonderful to see this new vision brought to life. Not to worry all you Nightmare purists, he ends by saying that although he's having fun re-visioning the role, "you don't want to go so far that we've left what makes [the franchise] so cool and bitchin'."
Bitchin'. That's right. He called Nightmare on Elm Street bitchin'...

Read the full interview at Shock Till You Drop