Last June, along with several other genre journos, I had the opportunity to visit the Chicago set of Platinum Dunes A Nightmare on Elm Street reboot. You can read my full set visit report here. Below you'll find the bulk of a very revealing conversation we had with the man behind Freddy Krueger's new glove William Dambra. Among the many topics of discussion we touch on why Freddy needs 4 gloves. Hit the jump for our full discussion and a big thanks to my fellow journos for all of their great questions! [William Dambra sits down with a metal briefcase, with two clicks it's open and he produces the new Freddy Krueger glove and passes it around the table] Are those real blades? They're...
- 3/15/2010
- FEARnet
Uneasy sit the hands that wear Freddy Krueger's gloves, because those darned things are heavy. And more than heavy, those darned things are dangerous. It's mid-June in Chicago on the set of the upcoming "A Nightmare on Elm Street" reboot and prop master Billy Dambra is passing around one of the four specially designed gloves that Jackie Earle Haley will don for his turn as Freddy Krueger. The gloves are all affixed with five-inch blades on every finger, though some versions are pointier than others and at least one is made of rubber. The one that's being handed around by the various journalists isn't the rubber one. The blades, which aren't of uniform size, are blunted, but they have the potential for being dangerous. "If I sharpen it up, I could carve you like a turkey," Dambra cracks.
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Photo credit: Warner Bros.
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Photo credit: Warner Bros.
- 2/22/2010
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
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