How many ideas did Executive Producer Danny McBride (Eastbound & Down) have for a continuation of the Halloween franchise when he was hired as to co-write the screenplay for director David Gordon Green’s sequel? The answer — quite a few. While speaking with Entertainment Weekly on the set of Halloween earlier this year, co-writer McBride revealed that he and Green had so many ideas for the project that they came quite close to pitching not one, but two Halloween films:
"We were going to shoot two of them back-to-back. Then we were like, Well, let’s not get ahead of ourselves. This could come out, and everyone could hate us, and we’d never work again. So, let’s not have to sit around for a year while we wait for another movie to come out that we know people aren’t going to like. So, we were like, Let’s learn from this, and see what works, and what doesn’t. But we definitely have an idea of where we would go [with] this branch of the story and hopefully we get a chance to do it."
It's probably for the best that McBride and Green only make one film to begin. However, based on the reaction to the trailer this past week, it seems that a sequel is in the cards, granted the film makes enough money. I guess we'll see if that is a real possibility once Halloween is released later this year.
The film stars Jamie Lee Curtis — returning her to iconic role as the badass protagonist Laurie Strode — as well as Judy Greer (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom), Andi Matichak (Orange is the New Black), Will Patton (Remember the Titans), and Virginia Gardner (Project Almanac).
Halloween will hit theaters on October 19, 2018.
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