Wes Craven’s estate making new Nightmare on Elm Street film & HBO Max show

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

Back in September, we passed along word that Wes Craven's classic supernatural slasher flick A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET starring Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger would not be falling under the same legal hell as director Sean S. Cunningham and screenwriter Victor Miller's FRIDAY THE 13TH as Craven's estate successfully snagged back the rights to his 1984 masterpiece. 

And today we're hearing from our buddies over at Bloody Disgusting that Craven’s estate has begun actively taking pitches for a new Freddy flick! More interesting still is the fact that they are looking for both feature film pitches and also concepts for a possible HBO Max series. 

For those of you that somehow might not know by this point in your life, in Wes Craven's classic slasher film:

Several Midwestern teenagers fall prey to Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund), a disfigured midnight mangler who preys on the teenagers in their dreams — which, in turn, kills them in reality. After investigating the phenomenon, Nancy (Heather Langenkamp) begins to suspect that a dark secret kept by her and her friends' parents may be the key to unraveling the mystery, but can Nancy and her boyfriend Glen (Johnny Depp) solve the puzzle before it's too late?

Wes Craven wrote and directed A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET while Robert Shaye produced. Along with Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger, the flick featured John Saxon, Ronee Blakley, Heather Langenkamp, Amanda Wyss, Nick Corri, and Johnny Depp. New Line Cinema unleashed the dream demon into theaters near your parents back on November 9, 1984. If you don't already own the film on Blu-ray (yeah, right) you can snag it HERE.