While attending the 28th annual Saturn Awards to present the Life Career award to Drew Struzen for his poster work (INDIANA JONES trilogy, the STAR WARS films, E.T. ), NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET's own Freddy Kruger, Robert Englund, talked about the rising hopes for the long fabled, hardly believed now FREDDY VS. JASON film.
When asked about his feelings that BRIDE OF CHUCKY director Ronny Yu had finally been tapped to direct, Englund said, "You know it's funny. I was judging a film festival a few years back in Europe, and I was judging with Jean-Pierre Jeunet the guy who directed AMELIE. I was talking to John Landis and we were hanging out and everyone was having a great time... It was really heavy on Hong Kong fantasy and stuff. We were all sitting around and fighting the jurors, and talking about all these films, like PI and stuff. The film that swept, the one the audience wanted, the one all the so called chain smoking, intellectual French wanted was BRIDE OF CHUCKY. I'm really feeling good about his participation about FREDDY VS. JASON." <.p>
Then he started teasing us, as we've all been teased so many times before about this film...
"I'm thinking now that this new script , which has been around since February, I'm guessing they've really gone for fun," Englund said. "I think they've stuck more of the effects which were written out two years ago back in... Now I think they're really going to have fun. Not make it silly, not make it ABBOT AND COSTELLO MEET FREDDY, but make it fun. It's been through four directors [over the years]. It's greenlit. I don't think we're going to do it this year, but it's definitely going to happen now."
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