How A Nightmare On Elm Street Remake Should Be Made

3. Pitch: A Fresh Start, At The Beginning

But enough of those mystery pitches keeping their secrets. Whilst there's plenty of avenues a new Nightmare movie COULD take, there's arguably one that it really should - and that's a narrative that folds in Robert Englund as neatly as possible. There's a few options this could manifest in, with the first being the familiar territory of a sequel that ignores half the franchise and starts again at the beginning.

Just like the success of Halloween (2018), A Nightmare on Elm Street could very easily take the first film that worked its burned magic into the franchise and start from there - dropping everything else that came after it and resigning it to the canon of Wes Craven's New Nightmare as a fictional world of movies. Almost 40 years on, we'd then be able to have Robert Englund back as an aged Freddy whilst the dream-world demon himself is taken on by a new face, allowing for the cameo and the new introduction to be a passing of the torch rather than an unwanted takeover.

Setting it in future - or the present, really - would also allow for a whole new world of technology to be introduced as seen fit, allowing for more 'Prime Time' moments, as well as giving opportunity for Heather Langenkamp's Nancy to take on another maternal role and fulfil the cyclical nature of Freddy's hauntings. It's the perfect way to pay homage to the past that built the franchise whilst bringing in present-day replacements tastefully, and exampled supremely well in Halloween as a template to go by.