There were 10 follow-ups to John Carpenter’s seminal 1978 slasher Halloween across four decades before one of them was finally met with critical acclaim comparable to the original. 2018’s Halloween brought back Laurie Strode as a highly trained badass waiting for Michael Myers to return. Thanks to the reboot’s success, director David Gordon Green is expanding it into a trilogy with two back-to-back sequels, Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends.
According to Green, Halloween Kills will tackle some pretty timely issues. The director told Empire, “This film is about community fear, paranoia, misinformation, and crowd panic,” but he was quick to clarify that he didn’t set out to make a political movie. He simply set out to make a great horror movie and he began to notice parallels between the story of Michael’s return and real-life terrors facing the world today. He elaborated, “This movie is a great popcorn genre movie and not really any kind of statement, but it’s strange how things line up. It couldn’t be a more interesting time to release a movie like this.”
Following on from Michael’s inexplicable escape from Laurie’s burning basement at the end of the 2018 reboot, Halloween Kills will take place on the same night as Laurie puts together a mob of Haddonfield residents to take a stand against the masked serial killer that’s been terrorizing the town for years. A community banding together to face a shared deadly threat sounds eerily similar to the world’s dismal current situation. Perhaps Michael Myers – sometimes called simply “The Shape” – could unwittingly become the perfect metaphor for COVID-19 in Green’s new movie. Green has written the script for the Halloween sequel with Eastbound & Down star Danny McBride, with whom he also co-wrote the first one. Scott Teems has a writing credit on the movie, too.
Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, and Andi Matichak are all returning to play three generations of Strode women, while Nick Castle and James Jude Courtney will play Michael Myers. Nancy Stephens is reprising her role as Dr. Loomis’ assistant Marion Chambers from Carpenter’s original movie. Paul Rudd, who appeared alongside McBride in This is the End and Sausage Party, was asked to reprise his role as Tommy Doyle from Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, but he had to turn it down due to scheduling clashes with Ghostbusters: Afterlife, so the part will instead be played by Anthony Michael Hall.
Moviegoers were supposed to be treated to the holiday-themed thrills of Halloween Kills on October 16, 2020, but thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, it was pushed back to October 15, 2021. This date was originally earmarked for Halloween Ends, which will now instead hit theaters on October 14, 2022. Unfortunately for Universal, it has to push these movies back a year at a time, because it can’t very well release a Halloween movie in the spring.
Source: Empire
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