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Jason Blum Swears On His Life ‘Halloween’ Will Be Out Next October

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7 years ago

September 12, 2017

Whether it’s Jason Blum‘s hand or head, the producer is betting his life that the new Halloween movie will be in theaters by next October.

“You can kill me. You can behead me. You can chop my hand off,” he told The Wrap when asked about Michael Myers’ return to theaters by next year. “That’s on the record.”

David Gordon Green and Danny McBride are scripting the film, due on Oct. 19, 2018, and Green is directing. John Carpenter, master of the original 1978 Halloween, is executive producing and could still score the film.

Blum obviously understands fans’ frustration when it comes to their horror heroes. His hyperbole shows the urgency behind-the-scenes to deliver a new Halloween film to the fans who have been patiently waiting for years now.

So, with that, filming should indeed begin this fall if they’re going to make their 2018 date. If not, there will be a beheading, at least on social media.

Brad Miska

Horror movie fanatic who co-founded Bloody Disgusting in 2001. Producer on Southbound, V/H/S/2/3/94, SiREN, Under the Bed, and A Horrible Way to Die. Chicago-based. Horror, pizza and basketball connoisseur. Taco Bell daily. Franchise favs: Hellraiser, Child's Play, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, Scream and Friday the 13th. Horror 365 days a year.

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New ‘Sleepy Hollow’ Movie in the Works from Director Lindsey Anderson Beer

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12 hours ago

April 22, 2024

John Squires

Paramount is heading to Sleepy Hollow with a brand new feature film take on the classic Headless Horseman tale, with Lindsey Anderson Beer (Pet Sematary: Bloodlines) announced to direct the movie back in 2022. But is that project still happening, now two years later?

The Hollywood Reporter lets us know this afternoon that Paramount Pictures has renewed its first-look deal with Lindsey Anderson Beer, and one of the projects on the upcoming slate is the aforementioned Sleepy Hollow movie that was originally announced two years ago.

THR details, “Additional projects on the development slate include… Sleepy Hollow with Anderson Beer attached to write, direct, and produce alongside Todd Garner of Broken Road.”

You can learn more about the slate over on The Hollywood Reporter. It also includes a supernatural thriller titled Here Comes the Dark from the writers of Don’t Worry Darling.

The origin of all things Sleepy Hollow is of course Washington Irving’s story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” which was first published in 1819. Tim Burton adapted the tale for the big screen in 1999, that film starring Johnny Depp as main character Ichabod Crane.

More recently, the FOX series “Sleepy Hollow” was also based on Washington Irving’s tale of Crane and the Headless Horseman. The series lasted four seasons, cancelled in 2017.