With this past weekend showing that classic horror franchises aren’t dead; with Halloween opening with its highest box office take in franchise history, another popular franchise may not be dead as well. Robert Englund’s last performance in an A Nightmare on Elm Street film was in 2003’s Freddy vs. Jason, while the last entry in the franchise itself was a 2010 reboot starring Jackie Earle Haley. The reboot was panned both critical and by fans and recently Englund isn’t ruling out appearing in another film in some capacity. Englund stated to Entertainment Weekly,
“I think they want to reboot the franchise, but they’re gonna need a new actor,” Englund shared with Access Live about the series’ future. “They’re gonna need a new actor to play Freddy because they’re gonna have to do eight of them. I might have one left in me… but yeah.”
“I’m too old to do another Freddy now,”
“If I do a fight scene now it’s got to be real minimal because I can’t snap my head for eight different takes and different angles. My spine gets sore. I can still be mean and scary, but I’m mostly relegated now to sort of Van Helsing roles, old doctors and sh-t. So it’s fun that the last moment of me ever playing Freddy is a wink to the audience.”
It may be a long show but it would be great to see England dawn the glove one last time.
