In 1994 and 1996, Ethan Reiff and Cyrus Voris made two pitches for the movie. The first being a more "Urban" version of the crossover with the story set in Chicago and set in an abandoned housing project as Freddy's reborn by Satan to search for the Holy Grail. As God himself plans to resurrect a killer just as powerful as Freddy, which is Jason. It was rejected by the studio but following the success of Il cavaliere del male (1995), they were giving another chance for a new rewrite titled "Freddy vs. Jason: Millennium Massacre." Their draft had Freddy trapped through "The Netherworld" as over 200-members of a Freddy-Cult (called "Fred-Heads") tries to resurrect him to the real world with his powers before the Millennium begins. The tone's said to be one of the darker scripts with the two icons being more brutal than ever. Using elements of the first script "Nightmare 13", Megan is renamed Michelle Barrett and is now twenty-four years-old as a medical nurse, with her sister Lizzie no longer special needs and was aged up to 16 instead of 13. Michelle plays as a mother figure after their parents recently died from the occurring apocalypse months before, affecting the sisters' relationship as Lizzie grieves on their death. The leader of the Fred-Heads, Dominic Necros uses a dream drug called "Tetrocaine" (which allows users to share dreams) and doses the entire mental hospital he's locked in to cause a huge shared nightmare with patients ripping off each other's heads. Jason's buried near a tree in Crystal Lake and is brought back by electricity with a new heart but he's been rotting with maggots, and looses his right arm at one point but jams his machete into a stump. The boxing ring match returns to more bloodier results. (Freddy ripping Jason's right arm off but Jason beats him with it.) The crowd is filled with the Fred-Heads as Dominic is the announcer instead of Ted Bundy. The final fight also includes Freddy changing the scenery into a hockey game to distract the winning Jason. After pulled to reality, Freddy sings his nursery rhyme to Michelle and Lizzie before Jason appears, stabs him with his glove and tears off his head. Bleeding from his numerous scars, he backs up against a window, finishing the rhyme ("We... can sleep... again.") before falling onto a police car. It ends with their bodies taken to the morgue where Michelle switches their tags to "cremate" and walks out saying "Pleasant dreams..." The studio loved the draft and approached directors like Guillermo del Toro and Peter Jackson before settling with Rob Bottin in 1997, but disliked the script and opted for a new draft.

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