Nearly four decades and ten films on, it’s fairly remarkable what John Carpenter spawned with his low budget scare flick “Halloween.” Michael Myers has become nothing short of a horror icon, even if the films involving the character have varied wildly in quality (with most of them not very well regarded). However, it’s a brand that continues to sustain, and yet another movie will be made in the series, but this time around, its adding a key creative ingredient.
John Carpenter will return and has signed up to executive produce and possibly score a new “Halloween” movie alongside current horror hitmakers Blumhouse and Miramax. It’s all pretty early, but Carpenter promises the next chapter will course correct after the various underwhelming remakes and sequels.
“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,” the director told press (via Collider).
Meanwhile, Jason Blumhouse says that they are going to focus on the core of what made “Halloween” work and not dress it up with unnecessary elements. “I do feel like all of us kind of want to go back to that…I don’t think we want to make it too meta, you know what I mean? We want to make it like it was – back to the basics – and not get into too much backstory which we don’t need,” he said.
Sounds like the right approach, but this is just the first step, as a director, actors, screenwriters, and more need to be assembled. But so far, it seems everyone is moving in the right direction.
