What do you guys feel about a situation like Director, Wes Craven, has found himself in now? Wes created 'A Nightmare on Elm Street', wrote and directed it. Then, when he wanted to direct the original movie, to do so, he had to sell the rights to it, to 'New Line Cinema.' New Line at the time where a distribution company, & after the success of Nightmare, New Line was named "the house that Freddy built" - what do you feel though about a writer who now has no control over the stories and characters he created? Is it stealing, un-ethical? New Line have gone on to be a huge success, but have never given Wes his characters and story back.
Wes Craven attended the premiere of "The Last House on the Left" where he said that it "hurts" to see the upcoming remake of "A Nightmare on Elm Street." He created the original slasher film and the infamous character Freddy Krueger, but has no involvement with the new version. When asked how he felt about the remake, he said: "That one kinda hurts, because I don't have any rights to participate in it at all." He continued, discussing about how he lost the rights to the characters he created: "It was done at a time when I was dirt poor so I had to sell everything when I sold the script, so that one hurts a bit." When asked if he would be seeing the film, he said "probably not.�
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