Paramount wakes up from competing Elm Street reboots nightmare

In a nightmare that not even the striped-sweater-and-fedora-wearing child predator could dream up, the bake-off between A Nightmare On Elm Street reboots, pitting Freddy Krueger against Freddy Krueger, has a winner: Freddy Krueger. Per Dread Central, Paramount Primal will remake the long-gestating new version of the classic slasher series, which, ironically for a movie about a burned-up killer, has been on ice since the 2010 reboot scared off any hopes of a sequel. Warner Bros. had a competing pitch from Mummy-maker Lee Cronin. But after Lee Cronin’s The Mummy left audiences saying “Who’s Lee Cronin?”, Paramount opted for its in-house version based on Wes Craven’s original screenplay and with the blessing of his estate over Lee Cronin’s A Nightmare On Elm Street.