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Is Miramax Making Another Halloween Movie?

Dark Horizons is reporting this news, and today I’m featuring it here at Life After Gateway.

In 2023, Miramax signed a deal with Halloween rights holder, Malek Akkad and Trancas International Films, to create a TV series based on the universe that has now spanned thirteen films. The original intent was a series and more films. That TV series has not crystalized, however, and instead DH is reporting that a film is now in the early stages of development, citing Horror Film News, which is a site that doesn’t currently seem active.

This news doesn’t mean that a TV series is not coming. It just means a film is the first project to materialize.

The Halloween Franchise

The most recent Halloween films, spearheaded by director David Gordon Green, experienced moderate success and featured the return of Jamie Lee Curtis. The first currently has a score of 6.5/10 and 188,000 votes on IMDB, but the third of this new trilogy, Halloween Ends, was mostly disliked by moviegoers. On IMDB, it currently has a 5/10 rating with 83,000 votes.

It makes sense that a new series of movies would arrive; after all, the first film was one of the progenitors of the slasher genre and also one of the most successful independent films of all time. Horror fans love this franchise.

Dean Cundey, pointing. At left is John Carpenter.

Halloween was a watershed movie in 1978. It is notable for being one of the first slasher films (along with Black Christmas), and it also was a film that launched many careers: Carpenter began a steady stream of directing projects, the next being The Fog, and he became known as “The Master of Horror,” and Jamie Lee Curtis starred in The Fog and soon became known as “The Scream Queen.” Further, cinematographer Dean Cundey, who worked on many of Carpenter’s earlier films, experienced a career explosion as well. He eventually worked on many huge Hollywood blockbusters, including Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park, Zemeckis’s Back to the Future II and III, and Ron Howard’s Apollo 13.

The Halloween logline from IMDB:

Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois, to kill again.

The list of films is impressive; I have colour coded based on series continuity.

The Halloween Timeline

Halloween (1978)

Halloween II (1981)

Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)

Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)

Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989)

Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995)

Halloween H2O: 20 Years Later (1998)

Halloween: Resurrection (2002)

Halloween (2007)

Halloween II (2009)

Halloween (2018)

Halloween Kills (2021)

Halloween Ends (2022)

Untitled Halloween Film (?)

Please note that this is unrelated to Halloween: The Game, which is due for release this Fall.

As more news about this new project appears, I’ll post it here at Life After Gateway. Watch this space!

Here’s a clip from the original Halloween, where Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasence) describes the evil that is Michael Myers. Credit to YouTube channel JazzyUte.

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The other books in The Rise of Oceania series by Timothy S Johnston:

The War Beneath 9781771484718
The Savage Deeps 9781771485067
Fatal Depth 9781554555574
An Island of Light 9781554555819
The Shadow of War 9781554556007