Robert Englund has repeatedly claimed that his time as Freddy Krueger has come to an end, but can he be persuaded to play the iconic Springwood killer one more time? Fans will certainly hope so, as actress Heather Langenkamp recently revealed that she would definitely like to have one last showdown with the razor-sharp dream demon.
Heather Langenkamp has gone to the Nightmare in Elm Street franchise what Jamie Lee Curtis is to Halloween, and it was while watching Curtis’ return to the franchise after many years that the actress realized she would love to see her character Nancy return to Elm Street one more time. During a conversation with Entertainment tonightLangenkamp said:
“If Nancy could fight Freddy one last time, I’d love it. Gosh, I’d love to see a future in that role. You know, this era where I think we have so much to give to those storylines, but yeah I wish I had control over that, but unfortunately it’s one of those Hollywood very complicated things.
This isn’t the first time the actress has expressed a desire to bring Nancy back for more nightmares, but she’s also noted that there are some potential stumbling blocks. First, there’s Englund, who, despite making a cameo in The Goldbergs series in 2018, has consistently said that he is now too old to redeliver the physical part. There’s also the fact that franchise creator Wes Craven is gone, and as she said in a 2019 interview, few people can get creative enough with the franchise.
Wes Craven broke all the rules when delivering his latest Freddy movie
Wes Craven managed to revive the horror genre many times during his career, and he even did it with his own creation. While he became known to a generation for making the scream franchise, a film series that poked fun at the slasher genre while itself an iconic slasher movie, to fans of his earlier work, A nightmare on Elm Street stands tall above most other 80s horror movies. When Craven returned to the franchise in 1997 to deliver Wes Craven’s New Nightmarea film in which the stars of the original film played fictionalized versions of themselves terrorized in real life by Freddy Krueger, it was another triumph for the director.
Of course, after taking Freddy out of the dream world and putting him in a real-life environment, the franchise as a whole immediately ended. Krueger, however, returned once more in Freddy vs. Jasona mash-up smackdown between Krueger and Friday the 13th killer Jason Voorhees, and that seemed to be the end of the road as far as Robert England’s time as Krueger on film went. Whether it’s Blumhouse’s success Halloween trilogy could lead to another Elm Street movie starring both Englund and Langenkamp is something only time will tell, but it’s something that Blumhouse’s Jason Blum has made no secret of that he would like to make happen. No doubt many Freddy fans would love to see it too.
Both stars can currently be found in separate Netflix projects. Robert Englund appears in the fourth season of Weird stuffwhile Heather Langenkamp stars in season 1 of Mike Flanagan’s series The Midnight Club.