Curtis Explains Why This Halloween Is A Direct Sequel To The Classic

It’s been 40 years since Michael Myers was first brought to the big screen. 40 years since he broke out of Smith’s Grove Sanitarium and unleashed his horror on the small town of Haddonfield on Halloween night. 40 years since Laurie Strode survived the murderous force that killed three of her friends.

Since then, there has been a long line of sequels and remakes with plots ranging from a brother/sister connection, Laurie’s daughter, grown-up Tommy Doyle (the young boy she was babysitting in the classic), a secret cult and a reimagining by rockstar/filmmaker Rob Zombie. Yet, writers Danny McBride and David Gordon Green decided to scrap those sequels and make a direct sequel to the first film, angering some die-hard fans of the franchise.

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In an interview with CinemaBlend, Jamie Lee Curtis explains the decision to go back to the beginning and write-out those sequels:

We wouldn’t have been able to make a 40-year sequel when you’ve given the sequel-ing to random people for the last 40 years – because there is no bible. There is no Halloween bible that those however many sequel filmmakers followed. Each one came up with their own wacky idea for the next movie. And so there was no continuity. It was scattershot, if anything, and didn’t make any sense! 

“There may be people who love any one of the numbers of Halloween at any time, and they the beauty of streaming is that they can watch any of them. Rinse and repeat; they can watch it over and over and over again. The clever choice [with this new film] was to omit any other movie except Halloween. But that was the clever choice here, because you can’t tell a story of generational trauma except to go back to the original trauma.”

As a huge fan of the entire franchise, I have no problem admitting that quite a few of the installments are weaker and don’t hold a candle to the original film or even the 1981 sequel. Personally, I have no problem taking this film as a direct sequel to Carpenter’s classic and refocusing our story back on the original survivor of Michael’s reign of terror, Laurie Strode. What do you think?

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Source: CinemaBlend.

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