As far as the sequels to A Nightmare on Elm Street go, many are as memorable as A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, thanks to the concept of many friends taking on Freddy Krueger and using individual skills to defeat this tormentor. During a convention appearance, the original movie’s stars joined and recreated a memorable promotional photo of this movie.
The photo features Heather Langenkamp, Ira Heiden, Penelope Sudrow, Jennifer Rubin and Rodney Eastman. Sadly, Patricia Arquette, Ken Sagoes and Freddy Krueger, Robert Englund, could not appear in the photo. Regardless, it’s great to see the cast come together to celebrate a cult classic that’s beloved by fans.
Fans of this series have not had much to celebrate as it has been 7 years since a new installment in the series has debuted. That movie, which had starred Jackie Earle Haley as Krueger and was to be a reboot of this franchise and came 7 years after the previous movie, Freddy vs. Jason.
There are no announced plans to move forward with a sequel to the original movies or another reboot but Englund has hung up his gloves and is not interested in playing Krueger.
“I’m too old to do another Freddy now,” Englund shared with Entertainment Weekly last month. “If I do a fight scene now it’s got to be real minimal because I can’t snap my head for eight different takes and different angles. My spine gets sore. I can still be mean and scary, but I’m mostly relegated now to sort of Van Helsing roles and old doctor. So it’s fun that the last moment of me ever playing Freddy is a wink to the audience.”
“It’s like, I had a good run, I had a good time,” Englund continued. “And no one plans for this in your career. When I was wearing tights and doing Shakespeare, I didn’t say I wanted to be famous for playing this boogeyman. Careers happen and one of the pieces of advice I give to people is I’m sure you’ll do a great pilot or you’ll do a little independent art movie and it won’t go anywhere and then you might do your Intern No. 3 on Grey’s Anatomy and that’s the one that becomes the huge hit. People just don’t know. And when you’ve survived as long as I have and you see that, you can be real happy that you got 20 years as Freddy Krueger, you know?”
