There are plenty of fans excited for the upcoming Halloween movie, and while we’ve learned a lot about the film over the last few months – there’s still one major detail that remains unknown. We have no idea what Michael Myers’ mask for the movie is supposed to look like.
But now we have a description from Christopher Nelson, the makeup effects artist who’s designed the new Myers mask. In an interview with Halloween Daily News, he explained that the new mask will look like the original albeit aged forty additional years.
“The first order of business, of course, was the mask. I have a strong working knowledge of the original mask, and what the second one was about, and all the masks (of the sequels) and who did them and what they looked like,” Nelson told the site. “The point was to get back to the original, and to bring Michael Myers to life again, to bring that character, that feeling that you get – I really approached it more as a feeling than I did trying to copy the original mask.”
He continued,
“The film takes place 40 years later, so you’re not going to have that same mask, it’s not going to be this pristine, beautiful thing that it was in 1978. You have to approach it from that standpoint. I had 40-year-old masks that I studied and looked at how they broke down, how they wrinkled, how they did this and how they did that. I also took into account the context of the film. Where is the mask now and where has it been for these 40 years? Without revealing anything, I took that into context. I had hundreds of photos and books.”
Before adding:
“I’m very happy with it. I think it’s going to be cool. I wanted to create the character of Michael Myers, not just the mask. You’re not creating just a mask. You’re creating a character. You’re creating a feeling that you get that does have an expression. The mask does have an expression, but also the mask looks completely different in every single angle it’s ever been photographed at, and I wanted that feeling too. I wanted the feeling that when you saw Michael Myers, it morphs, it changes, it looks different from every single angle, like the original one did. I can safely say we accomplished that.”
If anything, these quotes should make fans even more curious about the new look for Michael. I can’t help but feel like these descriptions match up with the appearance Michael had in the remakes. And with that said, I think it would’ve just been better to use the same pristine eerie mask.
In the upcoming Halloween movie…
Laurie Strode comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.
Halloween returns on October 19, 2018.
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