Halloween
Legendary filmmaker John Carpenter is producing a new Halloween movie for Jason Blum and his Blumhouse Productions company. Expected to be released nearly 40 years after the debut of his ground-breaking 1978 original, the new Halloween, with Carpenter’s involvement will actually be the tenth in the series.
The first film was set on Halloween night in 1963, where a six-year-old Michael Myers, dressed in a clown costume, murders his teenage sister by stabbing her with a kitchen knife. Fifteen years later, Michael Myers, age 21, escapes from a psychiatric hospital, returns home, and stalks Laurie Strode and her friends. Michael’s psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis suspects Michael’s intentions, and follows him to Haddonfield to try to prevent him from killing.
Carpenter said in a statement “38 years after the original Halloween I’m going to help to try to make the 10th sequel the scariest of them all”.
He added: “We’re probably going to go back to the original traditions that we started with early on. It’s kind of gone astray a little bit. I thought maybe the remakes went off somewhere that I didn’t want ‘em to go. Michael Myers is not a character. He is a force of nature. He is not a person. He is part supernatural, part human. He’s like the wind. He’s an evil wind. When you start straying away from that and you get into explaining, you’re lost. So hopefully we can guide it back in that direction.”
Carpenter is officially listed as executive producer on the film with Malek Akkad serving as producer under his Trancas banner and Jason Blum producing for Blumhouse. We don’t know if Carpenter is going to direct the film (we’re guessing not), but we are hearing that the producers are looking at a 2017 debut, so shooting will have to start very soon.
We’ll update you with more as we get it.
