A full yr after Halloween Ends had come out and introduced the reboot trilogy to an in depth, Miramax snagged the TV rights for the long-lasting slasher franchise. You wouldn’t assume this sequence would ever go away the TV house, however that’s apparently what it’s doing, and it’ll have its personal house the place Michael Myers can do his factor. (Homicide. That factor is a number of murders.)
Speaking to Deadline just a few days in the past, Miramax’s worldwide TV head Marc Helwig touched on the present to-be. He had no drawback saying the present will use the unique 1978 Halloween as a leaping off level. With out getting too into specifics, he hinted it might discover characters “that we haven’t actually targeted on that a lot in latest movie variations and even in numerous them. It’s a inventive reset utterly and going again to the unique movie, versus spinning out of any of the more moderen movie diversifications.”
Every new Halloween sub-franchise has opted to start out from one of many earlier motion pictures and carve out its personal canon from there. The reboot flicks from David Gordon Inexperienced came about after the primary and took potshots at that movie’s sequel, like Halloween 2 revealing Michael and Laurie Strode have been long-lost siblings. Conversely, Rob Zombie’s 2007 film was a remake/reimagining of the unique, whereas its sequel ended on the thought of Laurie presumably taking up as the brand new Michael.
Talking concerning the present extra broadly, Helwig referred to as getting this off the bottom a “huge precedence.” (One imagines a part of that quick monitoring will be owed to the TV success of fellow slasher Chucky, whose present is on its third season.) Optimistically, he stated the inventive workforce needs to be finalized “very quickly.” The last word goal is for Halloween to reside on by way of TV and movie as some bigger universe. Whether or not audiences go for that, or if the franchise even has sufficient fuel within the tank for that to be viable, stays to be seen.
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