The man of your dreams, Robert Englund, talks about possible routes the A Nightmare on Elm Street series can go and shares his ideas on where it should go.
“There are so many people involved who have a piece of the action. When Wes passed away, he left an awful lot of rights to his estate. He has many many rights that he worked out between character titles and names and plot and things like that. New Line Cinema obviously has a big hand in it. And much of that was surrendered to Ted Turner, then went to Warner Bros. So Warner Bros. has a huge piece of it. I know Michael Bay had been involved with some interest and also Blumhouse.”
“I think the [2010] remake was premature. I love a lot of the actors in the movie, so I’m not going to say anything bad about it, I just think the timing was off.”
And I think they can do part 2 as a standalone and really get into the subtext of Freddy manipulating Jesse and playing with his subconscious.”
My theory would be, you don’t go near Nightmare 1 again. You either do a prequel or start with Dream Warriors, which is the biggest success in the franchise and a fan favorite. So I would do 3, 4, and 5. I’d reboot them. And then, to end the franchise, I would do the prequel.”
Source: IndieWire