Johnny Depp's 1985 debut as film actor, playing Glen Lantz in the Wes Craven directed film A Nightmare on Elm street, a horror movie about Freddie Krueger http://inadepptrance.wordpress.com/feed












 

A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 

1985

Glen Lantz

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Director: Wes Craven

Writer: Stephen Jeffreys (novel and screenplay)

With : John Saxon, Ronee Blakley, Heather Langenkamp, Johnny Depp, Jsu Garcia, Charles Fleischer, Robert Englund

Tagline: "She is the only one who can stop it... if she fails, no one survives."

 Rate: R

 

Awards & Nominations:

ACADEMY OF SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY & HORROR FILMS, USA

·          2007 Saturn Award Best DVD Classic Film Release (nominated)

·          1985 Saturn Award Best Horror Film (nominated)

·          1985 Saturn Award  Best Performance by a Younger Actor, Jsu Garcia (nominated)

  

AVIORAZ FANTASTIC FILM FESTIVAL

·          1985 Critics Award, Wes Craven (won)

·          1985 Special Mention, Heather Langenkamp - for the acting.

 




 





 

 

 


  

 


 
SYNOPSIS

 On Elm Street, Nancy Thompson and a group of her friends including Tina Gray, Rod Lane and Glen Lantz are being tormented by a clawed killer in their dreams named Freddy Krueger. Nancy must think quickly, as Freddy tries to pick off his victims one by one. When he has you in your sleep, who is there to save you?


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QUOTES FROM JOHNNY DEPP

" I read for Nightmare on Elm Street, and I was just totally not what Wes had written for the story. He had written the part of a big, blond, beach-jock, football-player guy. And I was sort of emaciated, with old hairspray and spiky hair, earrings, a little fucking catacomb dweller. And then five hours later that agent called me and said, "You're an actor."
Johnny Depp, Interview Magazine, April 1990 (by John Waters)

"Well, what kind of reviews can you get opposite Freddy Krueger? "Johnny Depp was good as the boy who died." I just kept working, and I did a few more things here and there, and I studied."
Johnny Depp, Interview Magazine, April 1990 (by John Waters)

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This movie was almost never made. About halfway through filming, New Line lost its deal with the distribution company. As a direct result, they couldn't pay the cast or crew for two whole weeks until they found another distribution company. They didn't lose one crew member.

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"It was amazing to me that someone wanted to pay me that much money, which was just union scale."
Johnny Depp, Interview Magazine, April 1990 (by John Waters)

"I was scared and lost. Fortunately Wes was very patient and gentle. He didn't mind when I asked him stupid questions like, ‘What’s action?"
Johnny Depp, YM Magazine, March 1988

“I walked the streets trying to get any work at all .... He [Nick Cage] suggested I see his agent. Even though I wasn't an actor, Nic thought I could get work ...  It was wacky. I broke up with the band in June of 1984, and started shooting almost the next day. After four years together, it was kind of like dissolving a marriage; they couldn’t understand what was happening. I had no intentions of leaving the band prior to that, but if they had been offered a movie, would they have turned it down?”
Johnny Depp, YM Magazine, March 1988



QUOTES FROM OTHERS

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“I could make up all kinds of stories about why I had the perception and presence to cast Johnny Depp, but I would be a liar. We were looking for someone in the role as Nancy’s boyfriend…the boy next door…and in comes Johnny Depp with a friend…the long hair, his fingers were yellow, and I thought, ‘This isn’t the boy next door and he can’t act and he’s so nervous. Sweet, but…. .’”
Wes Craven, Fine Living, October 2007

“He had IT in spades, more than anyone I’ve ever met.”

Wes Craven

He just had a very powerful and yet subtle personality. There was some sort of charisma about him. My teen-age daughter and her friend were there at the reading, and they absolutely flipped out over him. He’s got real sex appeal for women.
Wes Craven


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