Originally published April 22, 2020. Updated April 21, 2020.
With its scheduled October 16th release creeping ever closer, the hype for the upcoming sequel to 2018’s Halloween is increasing.
Recently, Michael Myers actor James Jude Courtney spoke about how the Halloween Kills will “pump up the volume” on the 2018 reboot, calling it “Halloween on speed”, and now writer Scott Teems has echoed that sentiment by describing the sequel as “the first one on steroids.”
“I really can’t say anything about it, but I am really excited about it,” Teems told Movie Web. “I saw a rough cut of it a few weeks ago, and I’m a little biased, but my gut says that people that like the last one will be very excited about this one. It’s like the first one on steroids, I guess.”
He went on to call the script he co-wrote with Danny McBride as “the bigger, badder, meaner version of the first one.” David Gordon Green also worked on the script and is returning to the director’s chair for Kills along with a third film titled Halloween Ends.
SEE ALSO: Producer Jason Blum says Halloween Kills is a “very big movie” with a larger canvas
The cast for Halloween Kills includes Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Andi Matichak, and Robert Longstreet. Anthony Michael Hall will also star in the new film as Tommy Doyle, a character from the original 1978 film. Returning from that film are Kyle Richards as Lindsey Wallace, Nancy Stephens as Nurse Marion Chambers, and Charles Cyphers as Sheriff Leigh Brackett.
