Warning! Spoilers ahead for Halloween Ends.
Original Halloween director John Carpenter addresses the future of the franchise following director David Gordon Green’s most recent reboot trilogy. Released in 1978, Halloween introduced audiences to Michael Myers, a figure who would become a staple of the horror genre. After a series of sequels and reboots of varying quality, the franchise was again rebooted in 2018, with Green’s take on the franchise coming to a close with the divisive Halloween Ends in 2022.
Now, following the Halloween Ends ending seemingly concluding Michael Myers’ story for good, Carpenter teases in a recent interview with ComicBook.com that the franchise may not lie dormant for long. While not offering any details of what might be to come, the legendary filmmaker clearly doesn’t think audiences have seen the last of the iconic slasher villain. Check out Carpenter’s full comment below:
“Don’t you believe it yet. There’s all sorts of ways of bringing Michael Myers back. There’s all sorts of ways of telling that particular story. We’ll just have to wait and see.”
Where Does The Halloween Franchise Go From Here?
Halloween Ends was marketed as the end of the saga, bringing the connected story of Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) and Myers to a definitive close. And it certainly did just that, with the end of the film featuring Myers killed and fed through a mulching machine. With Strode’s story now over and Myers dead, the best option for a new movie seems like a hard reboot.
This reboot would see Myers return to terrorize more victims, but not necessarily Laurie Strode. While it’s certainly an option for a new Halloween movie to introduce a younger Laurie, the franchise may be better off retiring the character with Curtis and introducing an entirely new protagonist. Laurie, after all, may not mean as much as a character to younger audiences who will be experiencing the franchise for the first time with whatever new installment is to come.
Also unclear at this point is just how involved Carpenter will be with a new Halloween movie. The filmmaker directed only the first installment and produced several early sequels, only returning as an executive producer for Green’s trilogy. It remains to be seen what form a new iteration of Halloween will take, but the box office performance of the latest reboot trilogy certainly suggests that Myers remains a captivating slasher villain for audiences.
