History Trivia / FreddysDeadTheFinalNightmare

* CutSong: In the extended interviews for ''Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy'', Lisa Zane reveals she wrote and performed a Film/JamesBond-esque ballad, "The Worst is Over", that was meant for, but unused for the end credits.

** Robert Englund has openly called this the film where the series jumped the shark.
** Allegedly, Wes Craven didn’t even manage to get through the movie while rewatching the series to prepare for ''Film/WesCravensNewNightmare''.

** John Doe was supposed to be Jacob from the previous film. When they could not secure the return of Creator/LisaWilcox (who played Alice), this was vagued up.

* CreatorBacklash: Rachel Talalay admits it was a mistake to have focused more on comedy, and if she could have gone back in time, she would have made Spencer's death much more serious and disturbing. She also hated being forced to film the final 15 minutes in 3D, as this limited her artistic choices at the climax.

* TroubledProduction: Downplayed, almost to the point of complete aversion. Once again they had trouble with the screenplay; a young Creator/PeterJackson was sounded out about writing the film, but disagreements between him and New Line caused him to back out in favor of writing and directing ''Film/BrainDead''. Michael Almereyda wrote the first actual screenplay, but it was rejected almost immediately -- Robert Shaye later claimed to have thrown the script in his trash can after reading the first thirty pages -- due to its fan fiction-esque storyline, effects sequences that were far beyond the scope of the budget, and the fact that they'd have needed to track down the entire cast of the third through fifth films, most of whom would just have gotten small cameos. Eventually, Michael de Luca, who had done a last minute rewrite on the previous film, stepped in at short notice and created a screenplay everyone was happy with, causing Shaye to admit to de Luca that they should have just hired him from the get-go. After that, production flew by largely without any problems thanks to long-standing producer Rachel Talalay -- who knew from personal experience all the things that could go wrong in a shoot -- stepping up to direct, with the only major problem coming up near the end of filming when she was taken ill with pneumonia, forcing co-producer Aron Warner to step in for the final day or so of filming.

** John Doe is supposed to be Jacob from the previous film. When they could not secure the return of Creator/LisaWilcox (who played Alice), this was vagued up.

** Earlier versions of the script had Freddy [[TakeALevelInBadass level up]] by absorbing the entire town of Springwood into the Dream World before moving onto the next town with the Dream Police[[note]]the released spirits of the victims from [[Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet3DreamWarriors Dream Warriors]][[/note]] chasing after him.

** John Doe is supposed to be Jacob from the previous film. When they could not secure the return of Lisa Wilcox (who played Alice), this was vagued up.

* ExecutiveMeddling: A rare after-the-fact example. When the movie was in U.S. theaters in 1991, it ran 100 minutes, featuring many character moments and introductions (Maggie's foster mother doesn't just randomly show up near the end of the movie). However, for whatever reasons, New Line Cinema cut the movie down to 88 minutes for all home video releases, which unfortunately is all that has been available to this day. The German version of the movie, while cut down from the 100 minute version, featured many of the scenes removed from the home video version.

* ExecutiveMeddling: A rare after-the-fact example. When the movie was in U.S. theaters in 1991, it ran 100 minutes, featuring many character moments and introductions (Maggie's foster mother doesn't just randomly show up near the end of the movie). However, for whatever reasons, New Line Cinema cut the movie down to 88 minutes for all home video releases, which unfortunately is all that has been available to this day. The German version of the movie, while cut down from the 100 minute version, also featured many of the scenes removed from the home video version.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/PeterJackson was asked to write a script for what would have been the sixth film: His idea would have started out with a weakened Freddy Krueger who no one takes seriously anymore, to the point where teens made a game of deliberately going to the dream world to beat him up. Once Freddy does start gaining power again, the main plot is kicked off by a boy having to enter the dream world to rescue his father.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Yaphet "[[Film/LiveAndLetDie Mr. Big]]" Kotto as Doc.

** Earlier version of the script had Freddy TakeALevelInBadass by absorbing the entire town of Springwood into the Dream World before moving onto the next town with the Dream Police[[note]]the released spirits of the victims from [[Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet3DreamWarriors Dream Warriors]][[/note]] chasing after him.

* John Doe is supposed to be Jacob from the previous film. When they could not secure the return of Lisa Wilcox (who played Alice), this was vagued up.

* John Doe is supposed to be Jacob from the previous film. When they could not secure the return of the actress who played Alice, this was vagued up.