‘Halloween’ Trailer: Witness The Return Of Michael Myers
The long-awaited trailer forDavid Gordon Green’sHalloweensequel is here at last.Jamie Lee Curtisreturns for the film, which forgoes the majority of the franchise and serves as a follow-up toJohn Carpenter’s 1978 original.
Halloween Trailer
Can David Gordon Green,Danny McBrideand Blumhouse restore order and dignity to theHalloweenfranchise? I certainly hope so. While I’m one of those weirdos who enjoys almost all of theHalloweensequels (exceptHalloween: Resurrection; that movie can buzz off), I also know that no film has ever come close to approaching the brilliance of John Carpenter’s original.
After numerous sequels and Rob Zombie’s controversial remakes, theHalloweenfranchise needed a boost. With this in mind, Blumhouse turned to John Carpenter himself for input on a new entry in the franchise. Carpenter served as an advisor on the new movie, and had approval over the story, listening to several different pitches. As it turned out, the pitch Blumhouse and Carpenter were most impressed with came from David Gordon Green and Danny McBride.
Rather than a complete remake, Green and McBride have instead opted to write a sequel that both updates the franchise and reboots it. “We all came to the decision that remaking something that already works isn’t a good idea. So we just have a reimagining instead,” McBridesaid. In the new film, originalHalloweenfinal girl Laurie Strode is back, once again played by Jamie Lee Curtis. Laurie still lives with the emotional (and physical) scars of the events of the firstHalloween. Now, Michael Myers, the boogeyman from the first film, is back, and he has his sights set not just on Laurie, but also her family, withJudy Greerplaying Laurie’s daughter, andAndi Matichakplaying Laurie’s granddaughter.
Devotees of theHalloweenfranchise will likely know that Laurie technically already had another daughter – Jamie Lloyd, played by Danielle Harris. Laurie also had a son, John (Josh Hartnett). But the newHalloweenseems to be ignoring these characters. Indeed, the newHalloweenis ignoring pretty much every sequel that came after Carpenter’s original. At the same time, producer Jason Blumsaysthe newHalloweenwill “respect the DNA of the franchise”, while also bringing “something totally new to it and we’re really very very excited for people to see it.”
