![]() There are two specific kills that I thought were going one way, and they went a completely different direction. Michael is so unpredictable that I was caught off-guard while reading at least a few times. Michael loves messing with people in the original, and it’s taken to another degree in this script.įurthermore, the amount of unpredictability in this script is well above average. It has a little bit of a dark humor flare, but it also isn’t out of character for Michael. Michael stops and stares at the kids, pauses, and then throws a severed head out of the van rolling toward them. There’s a great scene where Michael is driving away in a van and some kids egg it thinking that somebody else is in there. Albeit, the killings are far more brutal than John Carpenter’s version, but the attitude of Michael remains. Also, the way he toys with, stalks, moves, and kills is very much inspired by the original. Coming after Rob Zombie’s version, that’s a really welcoming part of the script. First, the writers make a point to say that Michael’s face will never be seen. It’s almost as if there’s a film roll in your head as you’re reading you can really visualize how the movie would look on the big screen.Īlso, Michael is a big plus for me in the script. The way it’s written is so visual and detailed, but not detailed enough that it comes overbearing and too novel-like. I think one of the bigger reasons that this script works so well for me is the writing itself. There’s more, but these characters are the most relevant to the story. Note: Throughout the script, we’re also introduced to the following characters: Fog, Bear, Emma (Rogers’ wife), Liam, Ashley, and Brie. ![]() Michael eventually finds his way to their party, and in very classic Michael fashion, crashes it to the best of his ability. They recruit Sofia and her friends to come along and join the fun. Michael breaks free and escapes the prison, and the fun really begins.Īs Michael is loose on the streets in the small town of Russellville, Noah and his friends are planning a Halloween party at a local pumpkin patch. He starts to struggle and break free from his restraints, eventually successfully doing so, and going on a rampage. Suddenly, he looks up and locks eyes with Sofia, and his adrenaline kicks in. While Michael is being injected, his vision is going dark and blurry. Noah convinces Sofia to get them into the execution room to watch as Michael is executed. Meanwhile, her love interest/friend Noah turns out to be Deputy (now Sheriff) Hunt’s son and saw the events first-hand that night, watching his mother being murdered. Roger’s home life is shaky as his daughter, Sofia, has felt like she’s been neglected for the past 10 years in favor of Michael. Michael is now on death row and is getting ready to be executed. This is where the 10 years later part comes in. We get a great visual of the camera pulling up from Michael’s POV, rising as we see the back of Michael’s head while he drops to his knees and submits. Rogers gets Michael’s attention and surprisingly talks him down. Deputy Hunt eventually shows up with Paul Rogers, Michael’s clinical psychiatrist. He winds up at the Hunt household and ends up killing Deputy Hunt’s (yes, that Deputy Hunt) wife. We follow as Michael wanders the street, wreaking havoc. Taking place 10 years after the events of John Carpenter’s Halloween, Halloween Returns originally starts off the same night as the original. I’m going to tackle this as sort of a pseudo-review so we’ll break this down as so: summary, likes, dislikes, and the conclusion. The reception has been seemingly positive from what I’ve seen, so I decided to give it read. With that said, the script for Halloween Returns started to make waves online via fan forums/Reddit shortly after. Later on, in December, it was finally announced that Dimension no longer had the rights to the franchise, thus the death of another Halloween film-at least for the time being-was final. Eventually, in October of 2015, the project was said to be postponed. It also was said to be a “recalibration” rather than a reboot, which makes sense after reading the screenplay. In 2012, the Halloween 3D dream was finally shattered and was officially dropped due to no progress being made on the project.Ī few years later in 2015, it was reported that Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan were writing the new Halloween installment. It stayed in the dreadful “development hell” for years with little nuggets of hope dropped here and there to keep fan interest intact. Unfortunately, the project was short-lived as it was dropped in under a week due to financial struggles within the Weinstein Company. Instead, Dimension hired Patrick Lussier to direct and Todd Farmer to pen the script. It was going to follow after Zombie’s sequel but without Zombie directing. After the initial run of Rob Zombie’s Halloween II, there were originally plans for another film in the franchise titled Halloween 3D.
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