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Freddy Krueger has found a new home. Paramount Pictures has closed a deal for the US rights to Wes Craven’s original A Nightmare on Elm Street screenplay and will adapt it into a new feature, according to The Hollywood Reporter, which broke the story. It is the most substantial move on one of horror’s defining characters in well over a decade, and the framing matters as much as the fact: this is built on Craven’s foundational script, not the pile of sequels that followed it.
Why is Paramount making this now?
The deal was made…
