In December 1998, Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger were hired by at the time considered director Rob Bottin to make something closer to his 30 page treatment. The draft was written more in the same tone as Scream (1996) as a self-aware spin of both series as the two killers are fictional movie characters but the characters make large meta jokes about. (With one character mistaken Jason as Michael Myers.) Their story was largely the same as the prior script from 1997 that had teens getting away from their neighborhood by a Freddy fanboy, Dominic Necros before accidentally mixing Lizzie Daniels's (no longer named Samantha in this draft) dream drugs, "Somnambulene" with alcohol that causes characters to hallucinate and share each other's dreams. Unlike the last script, the tone is much lighter, Dominic has the most screentime the two titans, has more bodycount than Jason with Freddy having nons. And once again revealing that Freddy and Jason are somehow real despite being established they're fictional. Freddy's written to be the darkest he's ever been with practically no wisecracks or jokes and a redesign that describes as being more "nightmarishly menacing than ever before. His red and green sweater is but ancient tatters, barely covering an inhumanly cadaverous form. Twisted burn-scar flesh is stretched tight over misshapen sinew and gnarled, elongated bone." The ending has Lizzie and Jason taking the Somnambulene together to face Freddy after Dominic died. Freddy begins to drown Jason in boiling blob, but Lizzie realizes she has powers in the dreams considering it's her dream and says "This is my nightmare. And in my nightmare, Freddy does feel pain. In my nightmare, Freddy bleeds! And in my nightmare, JASON WINS!" As Freddy beings to gush blood out of his wounds, Jason roars and grow into a Hulking-beast with "Nightmare Rage" and pulls Freddy into reality in the rainy woods. Eventually, Freddy overcomes Jason by grabbing the heart of Lizzie's boyfriend (also named Jason) that brought him back to life and rips it out, before Jason jumps up to stab him in Freddy's chest, slowing utter his last words: "Freddy's Dead!" as lightning strikes their remains. New Line hated the script the first it was dropped, which lead Rob Bottin to leave the project and resulted Sean S. Cunningham to slowly loose faith on the crossover. Eventually agreeing to develop a new solo-Jason movie (that eventually became Jason X (2001)) 3 months after this draft was sent. However, New Line disliked the idea of a Jason in space movie at first, feeling it would diminish hype of a Freddy/Jason crossover for fans and tried to talk around Cunningham to make FvJ before Jason X as Cunningham continued to develop the film with Jim Issa and Todd Farmer

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