Yesterday, I spoke with Platinum Dunes producing partners Bradley Fuller and Andrew Form at the LA junket for their new A Nightmare on Elm Street. (Read the first part of our chat, focused on their other upcoming projects, here.) I made sure to ask them what fans can expect of the film's DVD cut when it's released later this year. And the duo also dropped some hints about a possible sequel, should Nightmare perform well at the box office when it's released this weekend. Read our conversation after the jump.

The new Nightmare has a very different tone from your Friday the 13th. It feels more like a unified whole, and less like a collection of kills.

Fuller: You learn and you try and make things better. For us, as producers, Friday the 13th was such an amazing experience, because we loved that movie so much. Everything about it.

Form: It was just a great time for us.

Fuller: I almost felt bulletproof. When the movie came out I thought, "There's not a person who could hate this movie. It's got all the DNA from the original – it's got the nudity, it's got the violence, it's got everything." So when people didn't like it we were so surprised, because we felt so good about it, that we listened. We always listen, but we really listened [this time] to what they were saying.  There are people who aren't gonna like it, because they love the original. But we get shit for our characters. We get shit for our characters in a lot of the movies, and I think in this one we really wanted these characters to feel real and make it a more elegant movie. We really tried. So when you say that it's very meaningful, because we were going there.

Were there any scenes that didn't make it into the theatrical release?

Fuller: There's a whole other movie out there.

Form: There's not. [Laughs.] On the DVD there will be an alternate ending. There is a different ending, and maybe two or three other scenes that didn't make it into the movie. But the ending will be the biggest thing that people will see on the DVD. That's completely different. And very exciting. I mean, we love the alternate ending. We really do. It just didn't make it into the feature.

This film takes a handful of cues from the original Nightmare on Elm Street. Could a possible sequel take its cues from any of the original Nightmare sequels?

Form: If we were lucky enough to do a second one.

Fuller: We haven't really thought about it.

Form: We haven't. Let me think about it right now… [Laughs.]

Fuller: I don't know what we would do. Honestly, we haven't thought about a sequel. First of all, this movie wasn't finished until about two weeks ago. Until we finally finished the movie, and that took all of our collective brain powers. (You can take a run at me for saying that. [Laughs.]) And we don't like to talk about doing a sequel to any of our films until the movie opens.

Form: Until then there's [not] even a discussion about it. Because if the movie doesn't perform, then we're wasting our time.

Do you guys have any favorite moments from any the original Nightmare sequels, whether or not they may factor into a sequel to your Nightmare?

Form: I love when the girl is lifting weights, with the barbell.

In The Dream Master, when her arms are snapped off?

Form: Yeah. If you've ever lifted weights, there's always that moment when you're like, "God, this is getting heavy." And if you don't have a spot… And of course he slams the weight. I've always loved that moment. That is a great moment. It's just the one off the top of my head that I could thing of.

Fuller: I love the girl in the waterbed [in Nightmare 4].

Form: That is a great moment.

Fuller: Every time I've ever been on a waterbed I'm making sure…

Do you feel the later Nightmare films are most memorable for the kills?

Fuller: That's the problem with all of them, Friday the 13th, all of these movies – it becomes that. We tried to avoid that in this movie. We tried to make it about the story. I think if you want to rip apart Friday the 13th you could say it's a collection of kills. But that was the DNA of the film. If there's another Nightmare on Elm Street, I suspect the story's the most important thing. You can't just have a collection of kills. It gets boring.

How hard was it to bring a serious tone back to the franchise? It was attempted before, in Wes Craven's New Nightmare, though that took more of a post-modern approach. Did you have a rule of thumb you followed with this one, on how to play it straight?

Fuller: I think we gave ourselves a pass because Robert was playing Freddy. I think it's one thing to give the audience funny Freddy, funny Freddy (for lack of a better term), and then the serious Freddy, when they've come to expect and love the character played by that guy to be a certain way. What we're hoping is that audiences are open to letting someone else interpret the role, and hopefully there aren't the same expectations. Jackie hasn't been funny for the last seven movies; so I don't know if they come to it with the same expectations. I get that they have expectations about Freddy Krueger, but hopefully, when they see Jackie playing the role, some of those expectations get jettisoned and they start to embrace what he's doing… We'd like to do more.

Form: We've love to go back to Springwood.

Fuller: Go back to the diner. [Laughs.]

Form: I love the Springwood Diner. You can get a nice burger there. [Laughs.]