The industry abandoned the idea of a 757NG a long time ago, it only lives on in the columns of PPRuNe.
Dear me no, there's a regular haunting over on the forums on airliners.net, it's the topic that never dies. It's harder to shake than syphillis (allegedly) and genuinely comes up time after time after time. It really was an amazing aircraft but one from another age, I can't quite manage the fact t's old tech