Halloween Kills is a slasher film written by Green, Danny McBride, and Scott Teems and directed by David Gordon Green. It was released in the United States in 2021. The film is the twelfth episode in the Halloween franchise and is a sequel to 2018’s Halloween.
Jamie Lee Curtis and James Jude Courtney, who play Laurie Strode and Michael Myers, respectively, reprise their roles. Judy Greer, Andi Matichak, and Will Patton reprise their roles from the previous film, and Anthony Michael Hall and Thomas Mann join the group. In this film, Strode and her family continue their fight against Myers, which continues up precisely where the last one left off. With the help of the Haddonfield residents this time.
Halloween Kills: Will There Be a Sequel?
Following the critical and commercial success of the first film in 2018, work on the sequel began in October of that year. Teems was hired to co-write the script in February 2019. In July 2019, the title of the film, as well as its sequel, was revealed. Principal photography began in Wilmington, North Carolina, in September 2019 and ended in November of same year.
Halloween Kills made its international premiere at the 78th Venice International Film Festival on September 8, 2021, after a year delay due to the COVID-19 epidemic, and was theatrically released in the United States on October 15, 2021, by Universal Pictures. For 60 days, it was also streamed simultaneously on Peacock’s paying tiers.
The film got mixed reviews from critics, who complimented the imaginative kills and performances but panned the narrative and lack of innovation, grossing over $131 million worldwide on a $20 million production budget.
On October 14, 2022, a sequel, Halloween Ends, will be released.
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Is Michael Myers a Supernatural Figure or a Regular Person?
Just as it appears that Michael has been defeated, he resurfaces and decimates the citizens of Haddonfield. Laurie explains her notion to Hawkins back at the hospital: “Does that mean this version of Michael Myers is now canonically supernatural?” That’s not the case.
In the Halloween franchise, the character has a history of supernatural strength, which was cemented with the introduction of the Cult of Thorn in Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers, but Green’s 2018 sequel wiped the entire canon clean, except for Carpenter’s 1978 original, and he’s sticking to his position that his version of Michael Myers is not a supernatural being.
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“Laurie has an idea that he is more than a man,” the filmmaker told IGN in an interview. “My personal concept of Michael, which will continue as long as I’m engaged, is that he’s capable of outstanding but not impossible feats.” So, while I don’t think he’s supernatural, I do believe that the terror he’s instilling and exacerbating has spread beyond the immediate character to an entire town.”
Green was delved even deeper into the temes of his ending and why Myers is both a man and ultimately still immensely powerful in an interview with Den of Geek:
Green confirmed to Collider that there is an extended version of the Halloween Kills finale, so there’s a chance we’ll get to see another cut with even more clarity.
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