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As filming winds down on the latest Nightmare on Elm Street installment, the new Freddy Krueger appears very comfortable in that iconic role.

In an interview with Bloody-Disgusting, star Jackie Earle Haley said he has signed on a total of three movies in this horror franchise.

Warner Bros. Pictures and New Line Cinema will release the new remake on April 16, 2010.

In it, Krueger returns yet again, still with a burnt face and still with a razor glove he uses terrorize teens in their dreams.

Jackie Earle Haley will officially don Freddy Krueger's signature striped sweater and long fingernails in the upcoming remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street.

Production is expected to start rolling May 5 in Chicago.

Haley, who most recently starred as Rorschach in Watchmen, made his big comeback with 2006's Little Children. The performance earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

"Looking at his performance in Watchmen, here's a guy playing a character under a mask yet you feel tremendous empathy for him," A Nightmare on Elm Street director Samuel Bayer said. "And in Nightmare, he is going to be under prosthetic makeup. You have to feel something for the character. The greatest villains are multidimensional and I think he will bring that to the character."

A Nightmare on Elm Street remake is on the way.

But who will don the long, dangerous fingernails of Freddie Krueger?

The most recent rumors attach Jackie Earle Haley - who plays Rorschach in the upcoming Watchmen movie - to the role of this iconic dream-stalking child murderer.

Freddie was originally played by Robert Englund, but sources told IGN he turned down the part in this remake; Billy Bob Thornton has also been rumoured for the role.

Famous child actor Jackie Earle Haley is making a second career for himself, beginning with his Oscar-nominated role in Little Children.

Next, the star is appearing in Watchmen as the complicated character of Rorschach.

Haley described playing the character to Entertainment Weekly as "unsettling." The actor added that he can't do Rorschach's trademark grumble without donning the mask you see him wearing below.