Fan CastingNew Nightmare (2014)

It's nearing the 10th Anniversary of the film 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' and one of the stars, Mary Elizabeth Winstead has been receiving phone calls from an obsessed fan, sounding very similar to the film's villain, Freddy Krueger. Which coincides with a meeting with Peter Safran at Warner Bros. who pitches an idea reprising Mary's role as Nancy Thompson in the definitive Nightmare film that James Wan is developing. After her husband dies in a car crash, Mary suffers depression and affects Dylan's behaviors further which concerns her co-star and old friend, Stellan Skarsgård to get therapy after she witnessed Freddy in her husband's funeral. She then seeks advice from Richard Brake who tells her he's been experiencing nightmares as well while drawing a portrait of a new and darker incarnation of Freddy Krueger. Mary and Dylan's health worsen which leads them to be paranoid to sleep and doctors are concerned that Dylan is exposed to Freddy, despite Mary never showing him the movies. She reaches James Wan for guidance and he suggests that Freddy is a demonic entity adapting new forms of evil and has been Freddy in all of the movies since 2004 and has now entered our world, and the only way to defeat him is to become Nancy Thompson once again.