Mike Flanagan is certainly keeping himself busy. The Doctor Sleep and Midnight Mass director has several upcoming projects in the works, including a Netflix limited series adaptation of The Fall of the House of Usher and a television series based on Stephen King’s The Dark Tower books. That doesn’t mean there aren’t other properties he’d love to write for, however, and one of them happens to involve Freddy Krueger.
Flanagan recently sat down with the Script Apart podcast (via Collider) and shared what one of his dream projects was:
“One of the ones that has been on my list forever is Nightmare on Elm Street. Boy, that would be fun. I have a whole take for it that I worked out a couple of years ago. And my understanding is the rights situation for that title is so fraught, no one knows who controls it really. No one knows who to pitch. So I keep telling my agents, like, ‘Send me in on A Nightmare on Elm Street.’ And they’re like, ‘We’d love to. We have no idea who you should talk to.’ I’ve spent almost a year of my life with Heather Langenkamp [who starred in Flanagan’s Netflix series The Midnight Club], and we would talk about it. And it’s like, nobody knows what to do. But one of these days, perhaps.”
Hopefully, Flanagan’s appeal into the podcast void will land on the right ears. Something similar happened with The Dark Tower series, after all, though it’s likely that Flanagan was already negotiating for those rights when he said he dreamed of adapting King’s work. Here’s to hoping that it’s the same situation here, as I’m sure many wouldn’t mind seeing another Nightmare on Elm Street project down the road.
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