A new book reveals that Halloween Kills‘ original script featured 1978 Laurie Strode flashback scenes, but they were ultimately removed. The second installment in director David Gordon Green’s divisive Halloween reboot trilogy, the 2021 horror flick sees Jamie Lee Curtis’ Laurie and her family once again facing off against the unstoppable Michael Myers. The film was met with a very mixed critical reception, but was a box office success.
According to Halloween: The Official Making of Halloween, Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends by Abbie Bernstein (via Slash Film), an original Halloween Kills script by Green, Danny McBride, and Scott Teems featured “extended” flashback sequences to Laurie in John Carpenter’s original Halloween. Teems spearheaded the idea, and it’s thought that these scenes would reenact moments from the original. The idea, however, was scrapped. McBride and Green vetoed the casting of a younger actor, and using VFX was deemed too expensive. Plus, Green decided to go in a different direction creatively. Check out Teems’ recollection of Green’s reasoning below:
“I love a lot of this, but I’m realizing that there is unresolved stuff from the first movie, and the second movie needs to be a continuation of the night.”
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Halloween Kills
- Release Date:
- 2021-10-15
- Director:
- David Gordon Green
- Cast:
- James Jude Courtney, Anthony Michael Hall, Judy Greer, Andi Matichak, Kyle Richards, Will Patton, Nick Castle, Jamie Lee Curtis
- Rating:
- R
- Runtime:
- 105 Minutes
- Genres:
- Horror, Thriller
- Writers:
- David Gordon Green, Scott Teems, Danny McBride
- Story By:
- John Carpenter, Debra Hill
- Budget:
- $20 Million
- Studio(s):
- Blumhouse Productions, MiraMax, Trancas International, Rough House Pictures
- Distributor(s):
- Universal Pictures
- Sequel(s):
- Halloween Ends
- prequel(s):
- Halloween (1978), Halloween (2018)
- Franchise(s):
- Halloween
