^I have no comeback to that :lol:

I was going to say that if undiscovered writers came up and got movies made, wouldnt that have completely ruined the point of the strike?? I dunno if youve heard before but its called

 

It's only "scabbing" if you're a member of the actual union and you cross a picket line, unsolicited scripts from the public are different, they wouldn't tend to be union members.... And besides, that wouldn't apply after the fact, the amount of material that they'd've gotten for films would still be coming in, the Writers' Strike should only have really affected TV production adversely (and it was really about writers for TV more than films), when you have to come up with loads of material to fill a 22 episode series, a two-hour film script shouldn't be as big a problem... Nah, it's an excuse.... And even with these remakes, someone still has to write the script for it.....

 

..Oh, and TV writers tend to be actually employed by the networks (which is really what the whole argument was about, the writers having a beef with the Network bosses), Screenwriters are kind of more the "lone gunmen", tending to be more self-employed, you cant very well be a "scab" if you're self-employed really.... :)

Ok i got shotdown and buried :rofl:

Ok i got shotdown and buried :rofl:

 

Oh, it was never my intention to shoot you down Joao.... I was merely pointing out that the Studios are using the Writers' Strike as at total excuse for their lack of originality and as a cover story for these endless remakes which would almost certainly have gone ahead regardless of the strike..... If I'm shooting anyone down, it's the Studio Execs and their feeble excuses.....

 

Brad Fuller and Andrew Form, the brains behind Platinum Dunes - who produced The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and upcoming Friday 13th remake - have been speaking to chud.com about their next project - a Nightmare on Elm Street reboot.

 

Form revealed that - as with Chainsaw's Leatherface and Friday's Jason - they would firstly be keeping Freddy Krueger's look, with the jumper and the iconic bladed glove all present and correct.

 

Fuller also said they hadn't decided on a helmer, but were looking for a "visual director who can blow people away." It seems the dream sequences are all important: "Seamless transitions are the key, where the audience truly has no idea if it's a dream or not until it's too late you realize you've been duped for the last 30, 40, 90 seconds and the person's been dreaming the whole time."

 

A Nightmare on Elm Street is set to return next year.

 

They hinted however that they may change the character's back-story, with the original Freddy's gruesome origins revolving around him victimizing the children of Elm Street, which lead the neighbourhood's parents to gang up and burn him alive.

 

Said Fuller: "The concept of the original A Nightmare on Elm Street wouldn't work. The concept of the movie is the kids discovering what happened, and the kids paying the price for their parent's sins. What we're struggling with is how we have his crimes in a way where the kids can't just type in 'Freddy Krueger' [into Google]and come up with his arrest record."

 

The film is set to begin shooting in Chicago this spring.