“How sweet, fresh meat.”
Paramount has secured a deal for the U.S. rights to adapt the original screenplay for A Nightmare on Elm Street, under its new genre label Paramount Primal, according to a report on Variety.
The Wes Craven estate, led by Iya Labunka and Jonathan Craven, granted Paramount the U.S. rights.
Plot details remain under wraps, and no writer has been attached to the project.
“Jonathan and I are so excited to be partnering with J.D. and Rafi along with the terrific team they’ve assembled at Paramount Primal,” Labunka said in a statement. “We look forward to bringing the world of Wes Craven’s ‘Nightmare on Elm Street’ to a new and completely engaged generation of fans. We know that Wes would have been thrilled to see how horror is taking its long overdue place in the cultural canon. We can’t wait for all of us to sit together in a dark theater — around the campfire of today — as the next chapter of the ‘Nightmare’ story unfolds.”
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