A Nightmare on Elm Street (franchise) as to whether it would be a good idea to remake the film. Craven expressed his displeasure, primarily because the filmmakers chose not to have him as a consultant to the film, unlike with the 2009 remake "The Last House on the Left" where he "shepherd[ed] it towards production". In contrast, Robert Englund felt it was time for "A Nightmare on Elm Street" to be remade. Englund liked the idea of being able to "exploit the dreamscape" with CGI and other technologies that did not exist when Craven was making the original "Nightmare on Elm Street" in 1984. When comparing
A Nightmare on Elm Street (comics) franchises. The ongoing "A Nightmare on Elm Street" series would come to an end after an eight issue run and be replaced by a mini-series, late in 2007. In September, Wildstorm released "New Line Cinema's Tales of Horrors", a one-shot issue featuring separate stories concerning Freddy Krueger and Leatherface. The Freddy Krueger story was written by Christos Gage and Peter Milligan and involves Freddy dealing with an inhabitant of Springwood who has taken to copying his murder style, in a story aptly titled "Copycat". Freddy next appeared in the six-issue "Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash", an intercompany crossover with Dynamite