This past weekend the latest entry in the Halloween franchise, simply titled Halloween, grossed nearly $80 million at the domestic box office. With a horror renaissance currently booming, in addition to the fantastic opening, there is no doubt that Blumhouse will be revisiting Michael Myers at some point.
Among those celebrating the opening is Jason Blum. As head of the production company that has defined modern horror, the producer is itching to get a sequel made. Speaking to The Wrap he said:
It’s hard to make a great movie, period, and I always say, make a great movie first and we’ll figure out a franchise after. Of course we would want to make a sequel, in fact, we’re dying to make a sequel . . . there are a lot of people that have to be in the same mindset as us. Nothing’s been set in stone, but we’re certainly going to try.
With a runaway opening like this, it is no surprise that talks of a sequel have occurred, and according to Halloween co-writer and comedian Danny McBride, they might already have some ideas.
We definitely have ideas of what we would do. I think we did not allow ourselves to really indulge those ideas until the movie came out. We just wanted to put all our hopes and dreams in having this film stick the landing. But we do have thoughts and ideas of what we could possibly do. We hadn’t invested a ton of time on them, but now we’re being asked to figure it out. There are definitely talks on whether we will do more of them and we’re just trying to see what best makes sense.
Halloween is currently in theaters.
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