Academy-Award nominated actor Jackie Earle Haley has been tapped to strap on the razor sharp glove in New Line Cinema's reboot of Nightmare on Elm Street. You may have recently seen Haley in Watchmen as Rorschach.
This is some pretty great news considering several sites and blogs stated earlier this year that Billy Bob Thorton had been signed on for the role, which sounded a bit ridiculous.
The film, which is under the helm of Michael Bay, is set to release in 2010. Its usually awful to hear that one of your favorite horror films has gotten into the money-hungry hands of Michael Bay, who completely butched the Friday the 13th "reboot." Bay doesn't have an original bone in his body, as most of his movies are based on an existing event (Pearl Harbor), an existing tv franchise (Tansformers), or one of everyone's favorite horror franchises (Friday, Texas Chainsaw Massacre). Hopefully he can deliver a solid reboot with this one, as opposed to just another silly sequel with the "reboot" label thrown in to attract fans, such as the case for the Friday reboot.
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