Director David Gordon Green and co-writer Danny McBride may be primarily known as comedy guys but they’re also big time fans of horror, particularly John Carpenter’s Halloween. Whether or not that makes them the perfect duo to make a 40-years-later sequel remains to be seen, but thus far we’ve been incredibly pleased with everything we’ve seen.
As it turns out, a single line from the original film was the basis for this year’s sequel.
“[Laurie Strode] has a line in the original film when she’s talking to young Tommy Doyle at the climax of the movie,” Gordon Green explains to Los Angeles Times. “She says, ‘Do as I say.’ And she says this line with a command that she hasn’t had for the entire film. Do as I say.”
He continued, “We took that to be her mantra for our film. She’s taken that pivotal moment in her life, and her recognition of facing her fears, and now has been chanting that in meditations for 40 years. She’s reached a point of a perceived almost psychosis of authority and built from this ambitious, kind of romanticized academic school girl into a woman that you don’t want to [mess] with.”
In this year’s film, directed by David Gordon Green…
“Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.”
“A British documentary crew comes to the States to visit Michael in prison for a retrospective of the maniac’s night of terror — but their project becomes way more interesting when Myers escapes custody, retrieves his signature mask and seeks revenge on Laurie, with others naturally being part of his impressive career body count along the way.
In the decades following the fateful Halloween night that forever altered the former babysitter’s life, Laurie has armed and prepped herself for Michael’s inevitable return — to the detriment of her family, including daughter Karen and granddaughter Allyson.”
Michael returns to Haddonfield on October 19, 2018.
