Rorschach in Elm Street?

EW.com confirms that Jackie Earle Haley will be donning the iconic fedora-striped-sweater-clawed-glove combo in the reboot of A Nightmare on Elm Street. Production will start in May this year, for an April 2010 release.

Haley will be playing the famous Freddy Krueger, a dead child murderer who enters the dreams of teenagers and kills them there.

The irony is so obvious it burns. I've heard of 180˚ character turns, but this is almost instantaneous.

Wonder what Rorschach would think of this. Hurm...