After IT set the horror world on fire in 2017, 2018 has another horror entry that is set to bring a large amount of anticipation. That film is Halloween and added to the anticipation for the upcoming Halloween sequel is the return of Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode. Co-writer Danny McBride recently revealed to Yahoo! that to get Curtis to return, he and co-writer/director David Gordon Green aimed to create a script that she “couldn’t say no to” one that would take her character in a different direction.
“I think everyone was kind of on the mindset of it’d be a grab to get her, but no one really knew if we would be able to,” McBride shared of the experience. “So Dave and I just busted our ass on this script to really make that Laurie Strode character something she wouldn’t be able to say no to. When we finished the script, we sent it to her, and she said she was in. So we just flipped out. We were over the moon about her involvement. I’m a humongous Halloween fan, so when David and I got approached about doing this from Blumhouse, the first thing David and I said was, ‘We’ll come up with a take, but we have to pitch it to Carpenter. If he’s not interested, we’re definitely not into making this,’” McBride confessed. “And [executive producer] Jason Blum was totally on board with that. That’s exactly what he wanted to do anyway.”
As a big fan of the franchise and of the original Halloween, I for one cannot wait what the final product will be in October 2018.
