Overview
- Paramount closed a deal Monday to license U.S. theatrical rights from the Wes Craven estate to adapt Craven’s original 1984 A Nightmare on Elm Street screenplay into a new feature.
- Iya Labunka and Jonathan Craven will produce the project with attorney-producer Marc Toberoff while J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules will serve as executive producers for Paramount Primal.
- The untitled film is in priority development at Paramount Primal but the studio has not named a director, cast, writer or release date.
- New Line Cinema retains international rights, creating split territorial control that follows the Craven estate’s 2019 rights recovery under U.S. copyright reclaim rules handled by Toberoff.
- Paramount Primal is billed as a label for smartly budgeted genre films, and the project revives a dormant franchise that will draw close attention to legacy stewardship and casting including whether Robert Englund will have any role.