'Nightmare on Elm Street' Director Thinks Jim Carrey Could Play Freddy

Although Robert Englund has hung up his fedora and razor claws, the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise could live on with another Freddy Krueger.

Chuck Russell , co-writer/director of A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987), said that although Englund “is the only Freddy” to him, he has confidence that Jim Carrey could pull off playing the killer after directing him in The Mask (1994).

“Jim, in my opinion, could almost do anything if he put his heart into it,” he said on Dread Central’s Development Hell podcast. “For Jim to do it, we’d have to do something that was another leap in the Elm Street series — a little bit like what Wes did with his very meta New Nightmare . I think Jim would only consider it, and I’d only consider harnessing Jim, if there was