“It takes place the same night, picking up where the last movie ended,” Halloween (2018) and Halloween Kills co-writer Danny McBride explains in the latest issue of Empire magazine, in regards to what audiences can expect of Halloween Kills, coming from Universal Pictures on October 15, 2021.
“Events in the film bring together a lot of characters who were in the 1978 (Halloween) film who we didn’t see last time,” he continued. “They gather to try, once and for all, to take down Michael, to stop this madman.”
Halloween (2018) and Halloween Kills director and co-writer David Gordon Greens adds, “The (2018 movie) was more about Laurie’s life of isolation after Michael and her attempts at revenge. It was personal. This is more about the unravelling of a community into chaos. It’s about how fear spreads virally.”
As for series star Jamie Lee Curtis, who returns in Halloween Kills to reprise her role of “Laurie Strode” (which she originated in John Carpenter’s immortal classic, Halloween), Green says of her turn in the upcoming film, “The fact that she could do her own stunts, kick everybody’s ass and be a joy to work with (in the 2018 film) definitely meant re-evaluating what we wanted to do with the next chapter of the story. We were excited to write without limitations about what Laurie can do.”
For the full article, pick up the Big-Screen Preview issue of Empire magazine on sale now, and check out the teaser released earlier this week for Halloween Kills below.
In Halloween Kills, Curtis is joined by original cast members Nick Castle, Kyle Richards, Nancy Stephens and Charles Cyphers. Additional cast includes James Jude Courtney, Judy Greer, Andi Matichak, Robert Longstreet and Anthony Michael Hall.
Produced by Trancas International Films, Miramax and Blumhouse Productions and based on characters created by series originators John Carpenter and Debra Hill, Halloween Kills and its follow-up Halloween Ends (the latter now set for release on October 14, 2022) will be produced by Malek Akkad, Jason Blum and Bill Block. Green, McBride, John Carpenter, Curtis, Jeanette Volturno, Couper Samuelson and Ryan Freimann serve as executive producers.