How A Nightmare On Elm Street Remake Should Be Made

2. Pitch: Reincarnation

Another option that allows Robert Englund to come back - which is an integral part of making this whole thing work, and should be taken seriously - is by having a narrative that ends with his reincarnation in another body. He's a dream demon, so there's no real necessity to come up with some long winded back story as to why he can change shape since he lives in a hellscape of his own volition, but the easiest way to do this is to repeat the sins of the past by burning him alive once more.

Ideally, this wouldn't be by remaking the first movie since literally nobody wants that, not even Englund:

“We need a Freddy that can do the next eight movies – or seven, I don’t want them to remake Part 1 again. [...] I could do one more…probably."

Getting him in for his 'one more' would be as simple as beginning the movie Endgame style and having a bunch of teenagers wipe out the rampaging curse of Freddy before he's reincarnated by another evil school janitor possessed by his spirit. It'd be easy enough to have a story that serves as an origin tale for a new Freddy Krueger that plays with the sympathetic card the 2010 remake tried to use by having an almost-innocent man turn bad and become a honing beacon for his spirit to come back into, resulting in a whole new series of chaos as teens try and stop the takeover before its too late.

This one probably lends itself to the possible HBO Max series that's been whispered about, too.