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John Carpenter Talked David Gordon Green Out of Killing Off Dr. Loomis in ‘Halloween’
Since it picks up 40 years after the events of the original film, Donald Pleasence’s Dr. Loomis is naturally no longer alive in Halloween 2018, but Danny McBride and David Gordon Green had at one point toyed with the idea of bringing Loomis back by essentially rewriting the ending of Halloween 1978 at the start of this year’s sequel. As Gordon Green explained to us last month, it was actually John Carpenter who talked him out of messing with the original film’s ending, and Halloween 2018 now begins in 2018 rather than first revisiting the events of 1978.
As it turns out, that scrapped “re-imagining” of the original film’s ending was at one point going to include the on-screen death of Dr. Loomis, using a Donald Pleasence body double.
Again, it was Carpenter who talked Gordon Green out of doing that. He tells Collider this week, “Originally they were going to have Donald Pleasence’s character get killed. And I thought, ‘That’s a mistake. The audience won’t like that. That’s a revision I don’t think we should do.’ So that was my one big contribution… I thought the fans are gonna get pissed off at that.”
Carpenter continued, “I don’t think you have to even deal with the ending of my movie; just start the movie where they did. I think that he did great.”
Loomis does at least have a presence in the new film, you’ll be happy to know.
After pulling in $28 million at the worldwide box office this month, director (and star) Dev Patel’s critically acclaimed action-thriller Monkey Man is now available to watch at home.
You can rent Monkey Man for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99!
Monkey Man is currently 88% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro awarding the film 4.5/5 stars in her review out of SXSW back in March.
Meagan raves, “While the violence onscreen is palpable and painful, it’s not just the exquisite fight choreography and thrilling action set pieces that set Monkey Man apart but also its political consciousness, unique narrative structure, and myth-making scale.”
“While Monkey Man pays tribute to all of the action genre’s greats, from the Indonesian action classics to Korean revenge cinema and even a John Wick joke or two, Dev Patel’s cultural spin and unique narrative structure leave behind all influences in the dust for new terrain,” Meagan’s review continues.
She adds, “Monkey Man presents Dev Patel as a new action hero, a tenacious underdog with a penetrating stare who bites, bludgeons, and stabs his way through bodies to gloriously bloody excess. More excitingly, the film introduces Patel as a strong visionary right out of the gate.”
Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.
Monkey Man is produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.
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