One of the most anticipated films of 2018 is 31 days away from its release. The irony about that is that the film takes place on October 31st. Halloween is set to release on October 19th and is a direct sequel to the 1978 original, ignoring all the sequels in between.
At the film’s Los Angeles press junket, director David Gordon Green spoke to Bloody Disgusting where he stated that he originally intended to begin with the climax of John Carpenter’s film. This would have required refilming the sequence 40 years later. “Even in the script going into production, we were going to refilm the end of the original film from a different perspective. We had this very complicated overhead view of Loomis shooting the gun, Michael going over and then the apprehension, assuming everybody was going to need a little bit to get back up to speed with where we are and we haven’t seen the movie in a long time or we’ve never seen the movie, had to invite everyone to the party and that kind of thing. We kept pushing it off. Jamie would’ve recreated, with a blend of Jamie and a body double similar to 19-year-old Jamie.”
Ultimately, it was Carpenter himself who convinced Green he didn’t need the sequence. “This was Carpenter actually calming me down on set.”
“I’m like, ‘Nobody’s going to know what’s happening and where we’re coming from.’ He’s like, “Just trust ‘em and leave ‘em alone and let ‘em figure it out.”
Halloween opens October 19th.
