Bill Moseley Responds To Petition To Make Him The Next Freddy Krueger

May 10, 2018

Written by Kelli Marchman McNeely

Kelli Marchman McNeely is the owner of HorrorFuel.com. She is an Executive Producer of "13 Slays Till Christmas" which is out on Digital and DVD and now streaming on Tubi. She has several other films in the works. Kelli is an animal lover and a true horror addict since the age of 9 when she saw Friday the 13th. Email: horrorfuelinfo@gmail.com


 
Horror fans are passing around a petition to cast Bill Moseley (Devil’s Rejects, 3 From Hell) as the new Freddy Krueger. Before you ask, no, there aren’t any Nightmare on Elm projects currently in the works.
This all started when Nick Younker created a petition to cast Moseley as Freddy after Moseley expressed interest in a future role if it was offered to him.
As it turns out, the petition was created (by fan Nick Younker) in the wake of Moseley himself noting on Twitter that he’d love to play Freddy Krueger, if offered the role.

I would love to,” Moseley stated nafter Younker asked him if he’d accept the role. Moseley was then asked if he’d give his approval if fans started a to campaign. Moseley replied “Fuck yeah!

Younker’s petition, which has compiled over 100 signatures, states  “We are a collective of social media users on Twitter that have weighed in on the casting of the new Fred Krueger, and we feel that only Bill Moseley can portray this character to our expectations.”
Since the initial conversation, Moseley has released a statement via his social media accounts.

 

Don’t you love internet petitions? Someone online asked me if I’d like to play Freddy Krueger, and I said you bet! Who wouldn’t?! There are a lot of roles I’d like to play- I’m an actor, after all. It being (I guess) a slow (horror) news day, the petition has generated some excitement among the horror fans. I’ve been doing this Hollywood thing for awhile, and I know how casting works, so it’s been a fun Wednesday with all of this, but I’ve got enough on my plate with Choptop, Otis, Johnny, Luigi, and, by golly, the upcoming Crepitus! So thanks, but as far as I’m concerned, the only Freddy is and will ever be Mr. Robert Barton Englund. I had the privilege of reprising his role as Mayor Buckman for Tim Sullivan’s 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams, and that’s plenty. I will be in Charlotte, NC, in two weeks (May 18-20) for the Days of the Dead horror con, so if you want to say hi, stop by!

 
While we all love Bill Moseley and want to see him in more films, it doesn’t sound like he’s all that interested in being Freddy Krueger after all. The good news is, it won’t be long before we’ll see Moseley in Rob Zombie’s 3 From Hell, which he calls a “masterpiece.”
When it comes to Freddy, only one man will do, Robert Englund. He is the heart and soul of Krueger.

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