‘Halloween’ Producers Want Sequels: “For Sure, 100 Percent!”

Superstar producer Jason Blum, of Blumhouse fame, is no stranger to sequels. The man has figured out how to turn microbudget horror films into massive franchises, with “Paranormal Activity,” “Insidious,” and “The Purge,” just to name a few. So make no mistake, just because Blumhouse is adapting an existing franchise for its latest film, “Halloween,” Blum has every intention of turning it into yet another massively profitable franchise.

When asked by EW in a recent interview if the producer had plans for a sequel to what’s expected to be a massive hit, “Halloween,” Blum said, “Yeah, for sure, for sure, 100 percent. Let me tell you, if we got six movies out of [‘Paranormal Activity’] — they found new footage five times in a row! — I feel like we can figure out the next chapter. But we’ll see.”

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Obviously, Blum is no dummy and isn’t without a sense of humor. He knows that it’s ridiculous that such a simple premise, such as “Paranormal Activity” turned into an annual event film that spawned a franchise with a half dozen films. With the legacy of “Halloween” and the iconic Micheal Myers, it would be a lot easier for Blumhouse to turn that into the major franchise it used to be.

In fact, Blum says that creating this new “Halloween” felt very much like working on one of his many sequels, considering the franchise has spawned nearly a dozen sequels in the last 40 years. “I think the same creative muscle that you use to [sequelize] IP that already exists is exactly the same muscle that you exercise for sequels [of our own films],” Blum says. “So ‘Purge 2, 3, 4;’ ‘Insidious 2, 3, 4;’ ‘Ouija 2;’ ‘Paranormal 2, 3, 4, 5, 6’ — anything that’s after 1 is the exact same thing. So we’ve done a lot of movies from existing IP, it just happens to be our own existing IP, so it felt very familiar. It felt like making one of our sequels, which is always the same conundrum, which is how do you make it feel original enough that people feel like it’s worth seeing, but not too original that it’s not connected to the previous chapters?”

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With “Halloween” expected to be a massive hit, compounded by its incredibly small budget, there’s already no doubt that the further adventures of Michael Myers will live on in the years to come. Let’s just hope the same care and thought that was put into this new iteration continues on in the future because horror fans have already seen really bad “Halloween” sequels and they’d rather not repeat that trauma.

“Halloween” opens October 19.