The man behind the mask will slash once more.
By Brandon Wolfe
Michael Myers has been out of our lives for far too long. His last outing was in 2009’s Halloween II, the sequel to Rob Zombie’s 2007 remake of the original film. However, Zombie’s Michael Myers - hulking, unmasked, more than a little white-trashy – was a far cry from the sleeker, more elegant killer from the olden days. The last outing in the original Halloween continuity (or at least one of several competing continuities; it gets confusing) was 2002’s Busta Rhymes-powered Halloween: Resurrection, which was hardly a glorious note to go out on.
But now Michael is finally coming home in the idiotically titled Halloween Returns (it returns every year!). Dimension Films and Trancas International Films are set to start production next month on the latest installment. Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton, writers on the last batch of Saw films, wrote the script, said before to be a “recalibration” in an attempt to coin a new annoying buzzword. Dunstan will direct.
What’s perhaps most intriguing about this news for longtime Halloween fans is that Halloween Returns, rather than standing as another remake or board-clearing reboot, is going to jump back into the earlier continuity that began with John Carpenter’s seminal 1978 classic (or at least the continuity of the films that Jamie Lee Curtis appeared in; like I said, it’s tricky). Shock Till You Drop claims that the film will center on Sheriff Gary Hunt, a character (then, a deputy) from the original Halloween II from 1981. The film will also open with Michael on Death Row for his myriad crimes, before breaking loose and going on yet another bloody rampage.
Considering that actor Hunter von Leer, who played Hunt, hasn’t worked much as an actor over the past couple of decades, it stands to reason that the role will be recast. As for Michael being sentenced to death, I hope the film bothers to answer just how he was captured, incarcerated and stood trial without leaving corpse after corpse at every level of the criminal justice system.
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