When it was announced that we’d be getting a new Halloween movie with Jamie Lee Curtis returning as Laurie Strode, fans of the franchise were definitely excited. It was then revealed that the upcoming film would be a direct sequel to 1978’s Halloween and ignore the movies after it.
It’s definitely an interesting strategy, but one former actress from multiple Halloween movies, Danielle Harris, revealed she’s bummed out about the movie:
“I’m bummed out. And here’s why I’m bummed out,” said Harris. “I’ve done four Halloween movies, and I’m grateful for those movies. I wouldn’t have all of you guys here… if it wasn’t for Halloween. I’m forever grateful and indebted to the Halloween franchise. It’s been good to me.”
The actress added:
“What I am bummed about is… [Laurie Strode] has a daughter. I was okay with it when she had a son… but they’re saying it’s the last one and… she has a daughter. And it’s not Jamie. It’s just kind of a bummer, I guess. I think somebody had said, it wouldn’t have hurt the movie to have Jamie reunited with [Laurie]. But that didn’t happen. We did put in a call, thought it’d be kinda cool even just to have a little flashback… they were not interested. So. I tried.”
As far as the new film, it’ll be produced by David Gordon Green and Danny McBride. McBride has said they’re looking to accomplish what the first film did:
“Look at where the Halloween franchise has gone. There’s a lot of room for improvement. David and I are coming from it as, we are horror fans, and we are humongous fans of John Carpenter and of what he did with the original Halloween, so I think from watching this and being disappointed by other versions of this series, I think we’re just trying to strip it down and just take it back to what was so good about the original.”
He also added that Michael Myers won’t be immortal:
“It was just very simple and just achieved that level of horror that wasn’t corny and it wasn’t turning Michael Myers into some supernatural being that couldn’t be killed. That stuff to me isn’t scary. I want to be scared by something that I really think could happen.”
The new film hits theaters October 19, 2018.
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