It’s hard to speculate the plan behind the next Halloween until there’s a director attached. Right now Miramax and Blumhouse are on the hunt, with horror fans awaiting word on if Adam Wingard (The Woods, You’re Next, V/H/S, The Guest) ends up directing (Oculus and Hush‘s Mike Flanagan is no longer in the conversation).
John Carpenter, the mad genius behind the 1978 Halloween, spoke to ScreenDaily at the the Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival (NIFF, 1-9 July) where Carpenter and his band performed his film music together with original music from his “Lost Themes” albums at a sold out concert in the town’s cavernous Théâtre du Passage.
There, he revealed to the site that the horror maestro could write the score for the latest spin off of his 1978 classic, Halloween.
“Maybe I’ll do the music,” the 68-year-old filmmaker explained.
However, Carpenter (who scored the original film) confirmed that he will definitely not be directing the project.
Carpenter is already on board as executive producer of the new movie, announced earlier this summer.
An interesting addition to the conversation focused on why Carpenter hasn’t directed a feature film since The Ward in 2010, his first since The Ghosts of Mars in 2001.
Explaining the hiatus in his directorial career, Carpenter claimed he had been “burned out” by his filmmaking experiences.
“I had to stop. I had no life. It (filmmaking) is so stressful,” he said.
Watch this spot for any Halloween news, while Jon Barkan will have images from a Carpenter concert in his area from this past weekend.