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Paramount Secures Original Elm Street Script, Plans New Film

7/16/2026

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Paramount Pictures announced a “A Nightmare on Elm Street” film.
Paramount secured U.S. rights to Wes Craven’s 1984 screenplay from the Craven estate and will use its ideas and characters, though a remake is not confirmed.
Iya Labunka and Jonathan Craven will produce with J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules.
No director is attached, though Mike Flanagan and Lee Cronin have shown interest.
Robert Englund is unlikely to reprise Freddy Krueger.

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Paramount Pictures announced a “A Nightmare on Elm Street” film.
Paramount secured U.S. rights to Wes Craven’s 1984 screenplay from the Craven estate and will use its ideas and characters, though a remake is not confirmed.
Iya Labunka and Jonathan Craven will produce with J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules.
No director is attached, though Mike Flanagan and Lee Cronin have shown interest.
Robert Englund is unlikely to reprise Freddy Krueger.