10 Insane Movie Sequels Actors Actually Wanted To Make

The Nightmare On Elm Street franchise has been going on for long enough that you could make a whole (arguably more interesting) series of the pitches that it rejected, some of them coming from the cast themselves.

Freddy Krueger himself, Robert Englund, for example, told an interviewer in 2016 that the series should be rebooted with children today constructing their own mental image of Freddy from the urban legends that were still told. As each child would imagine a different Freddy, he would be played in each dream by a completely different actor, Imaginarium Of Dr Parnassus-style.

John Saxon, who played the cop Lt Thompson (father to final girl Nancy), went one further and actually penned his own prequel treatment back in 1987 while appearing in sequel The Dream Warriors.

In How The Nightmare On Elm Street Began it would be revealed that the original Springfield murders were actually committed by Charles Manson, that one of the victims was a never-before-mentioned elder daughter of Saxon's own character (Nancy's step-sister), and that her therapist, one Frederick Krueger, was wrongfully suspected of the crimes.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the producers (who also rejected Wes Craven's own suggestion for a fourth film involving time travel in dreams) didn't go with Saxon's idea, opting for the safer ground of Renny Harlin's more derivative The Dream Warriors. Saxon would not return to the franchise until a self-referential turn in postmodern sequel New Nightmare.