A recent casting call tipped us off to the fact that David Gordon Green’s now-filming Halloween will very likely return us to Smith’s Grove Sanitarium, an iconic location from the original film. Today brings another casting call, with more locale details.
Project Casting‘s latest call for the film is seeking actors to play patients for a hospital scene being shot this Wednesday. “These are folks at a regular hospital,” the casting call notes. “Adults late 20’s -70’s, ALL RACES, Male or Female. Would like a couple senior options for one of the patients.”
The suggestion here is that we’ll be returning to Haddonfield Memorial Hospital, which was of course the primarily location of the retconned Halloween II (1981).
Jamie Lee Curtis is back as Laurie Strode in this year’s Halloween, which will take place after the original classic and disregard *all* of the sequels. Judy Greer has been cast to play Karen Strode, Laurie’s daughter, while Andi Matichak recently landed the coveted role of the film’s young lead (daughter to Greer and granddaughter to Curtis).
The cast also includes Virginia “Ginny” Gardner (Project Almanac, Marvel’s “Runaways”), Miles Robbins (Mozart in the Jungle, My Friend Dahmer), Dylan Arnold (Mudbound, Laggies, When We Rise), and Drew Scheid (“Stranger Things”, The War with Grandpa). They will be playing the friends of Matichak’s Allyson.
Nick Castle will return to the role of Michael Myers, while stunt performer and actor James Jude Courtney has also been cast to play Myers!
Will Patton has been cast to play a cop. Rob Niter will play a member of the Warren County Sheriff’s Department. Rhian Rees is playing a character named Dana.
In Halloween, co-written by Danny McBride, “Laurie Strode comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.”
Michael returns home on October 19, 2018.
