A few weeks ago Blumhouse Productions chief Jason Blum revealed that he “would love” to do a sequel to Halloween, should the upcoming movie perform at the box office.
And, with the film tracking a bumper opening weekend off the back of stellar early reviews, co-writer Danny McBride has revealed to Entertainment Weekly that he and director David Gordon Green are already exploring some ideas.
“David and I definitely had some ideas at the beginning of this of what we would do if there was an appetite for it,” said McBride. “We have some ideas, so now we’re just sort of exploring them to see if they have enough legs to kind of warrant it. I know that Jason Blum, I bet you he’d be stoked to make some more. [But] I think he’s been on the same mindset we’ve been of, ‘let’s just wait and see what people think.’”
McBride has previously revealed that their original plan was to shoot two movies back-to-back, but they ultimately opted against the idea: “We were like, Well, let’s not get ahead of ourselves. This could come out, and everyone could hate us, and we’d never work again. So, let’s not have to sit around for a year while we wait for another movie to come out that we know people aren’t going to like. So, we were like, Let’s learn from this, and see what works, and what doesn’t. But we definitely have an idea of where we would go [with] this branch of the story and hopefully we get a chance to do it.”
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Master of horror John Carpenter will executive produce and serve as creative consultant on this film, joining forces with cinema’s current leading producer of horror, Jason Blum (Get Out, Split, The Purge, Paranormal Activity). Inspired by Carpenter’s classic, filmmakers David Gordon Green and Danny McBride crafted a story that carves a new path from the events in the landmark 1978 film, and Green also directs.
Halloween is being directed by David Gordon Green from a script by Green and Danny McBride. In addition to the returning Jamie Lee Curtis (Laurie Strode) and Nick Castle (Michael Myers), the film stars Judy Greer (War for the Planet of the Apes), Andi Matichak (Orange Is the New Black), Will Patton (Shots Fired), Virginia Gardner (Runaways), Miles Robbins (Mozart in the Jungle), Dylan Arnold (Mudbound) and Drew Scheid (Stranger Things).
