There have been rumors of this casting for months now, but Variety reports that the rumor has become the truth. Jackie Earle Haley has officially signed on to star as the notorious serial killer in the reboot of New Line's A Nightmare on Elm Street. Personally I'm over the moon about this news, don't get me wrong I love Robert Englund as much as the next guy but he's too old for the reboot. Haley's acting chops will also help quite a bit as the New Line remakes have a tendancy to focus more on the killer than his prey and of the big three I think Kruger would benefit most from a deep look into his origins. If they start when he is still killing kids in human form and move through that story to when the community eventually lynches him than I think there will be plenty for Jackie Earle Haley to chomp down on. Also I would expect the truly nightmarish menacing Kruger from the original, and not the whimsical joke happy clown from the later films. Here's to the legitimacy of the horror film!
