Heather Langenkamp Could Return to Battle Freddy Again as Nancy
A Nightmare on Elm Street star Heather Langenkamp would 'love' to reprise function of Nancy Thompson in another Freddy movie
'It's kind of crazy, just information technology'due south definitely something I would love to do'
Post-obit the huge box office success of the Jamie Lee Curtis-starring Halloween sequel, y'all might imagine that stars of other horror franchises are keeping an centre on their phones in the hope of being asked to reprise their roles in a reboot. And, according to A Nightmare on Elm Street extra Heather Langenkamp, you'd be right.
"I'thou sitting here like whatever other scream queen in Hollywood, hoping that they revive their franchise," says Langenkamp, with a laugh. "I'yard non lone! I know of lots of other horror heroines who have this little bit of jump in their step thinking about the chance of possibly being in [new versions of] the movies that they helped make famous as young people. It's kind of crazy, but it's definitely something I would dearest to exercise."
Lankenkamp originated the part of the Freddy Krueger-battling loftier schooler Nancy Thompson in the belatedly writer-director Wes Craven's original 1984 film and played the part again in 1987's A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, before finally portraying a version of herself in 1994's meta-shocker Wes Chicken's New Nightmare. Robert Englund played Krueger in all three films, and starred as the dream-domicile bedlamite in eight movies in all, including 2003'due south monster brew-upwardly Freddy vs. Jason. In the 2010 remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street the actor was replaced by Jackie Earle Haley, while Rooney Mara played "Nancy Holbrook." But Englund recently played Freddy in an episode of The Goldbergs and seems willing to do and then again on the big screen, if the project did justice to Craven's creation.
"I see Robert all the fourth dimension, we were just together in Baltimore (at a convention)," says Langenkamp. "He actually spoke for a quite a while at one of the panel discussions that we did about his yearning [to play Freddy], simply too his commitment to ever putting the best face on Freddy's legacy. Y'all know, he travels the world making fans happy with his presence and his charm. I recollect he's probably the best advocate for how important Freddy is in our horror customs, how Freddy Krueger inverse the genre to be this incredible juggernaut of coin-making for Hollywood. I do believe that Robert Englund and all the '80s monsters really changed moving-picture show history and I think they deserve even more recognition than they go. If the way to do that would exist to accept a Freddy movie for Robert Englund at this incredible point in his own life, I retrieve it would be fantastic."
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Langenkamp isn't just sitting around waiting for the call to play Nancy again. The extra is speaking with EW over the phone from AFX Studio, the furnishings company she runs with her Oscar-winning makeup creative person husband, David LeRoy Anderson, which just wrapped work on the most recent season of American Horror Story. Langenkamp is likewise directing a short movie chosen Washed Away, which he hopes to premiere early next yr.
"I wouldn't phone call it a horror movie, just information technology's definitely a ghost story," she says. "I have my terminal solar day of shooting this calendar week and hopefully I'll have that out in January. People out there are saying, 'Oh, I'd hire women directors, if in that location were women directors.' I decided I'd better get out and brand something and bear witness how much I want to directly. I used all my proceeds from the conventions that I did in the last ii years to invest in my own petty short picture. I'm excited for people to run into it."
While it might exist a little premature to suggest that Langenkamp could direct an Elm Street film, she wouldn't be the commencement woman to practise then. That blood-streaked glass ceiling was broken by Rachel Talalay, who oversaw 1991's Freddy's Dead: The Concluding Nightmare and in recent years has go an in-need Television director, helming episodes of Doctor Who, Sherlock, The Flash, and, well-nigh recently, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.
"Rachel [is] a trailblazer," says Langenkamp. "Rachel not only was the first director, but she literally was part of New Line Cinema (the company which produced the franchise) from some of the primeval days. In fact, in the beginning, she worked in the bookkeeping office. So, she's a real inspiration, a adult female finding her place, and moving her way up lilliputian past piffling by little by niggling, and then getting an amazing opportunity and taking it."
So, volition nosotros see Heather Langenkamp playing Nancy Thompson once again? According to the actress, your judge is currently as good every bit hers.
"I haven't [heard annihilation about a new pic]," she says. "I certainly continue upwards with friends at New Line Cinema, so I would wait if Warner Bros. or New Line Cinema — whoever — would put something like that together, I would imagine that I would know. And then, the fact that I don't know leads me to believe that it's probably not in the works.
"Of course, I love the character and then much, and she's definitely office of me, and as I abound sometime, she grows old inside. Every time Wes Chicken used to call, and enquire if I would be interested in playing Nancy one terminal time, I would often be incredibly excited about it. But I don't know what forces in Hollywood are planning on that remake, or that rematch between Nancy and Freddy. I'm like my own fans. I just call back, Wow, that would be neat!"
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