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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.
Sony returns to their own Marvel universe with the upcoming Kraven the Hunter, which has been bumped all over the release schedule. This week, it’s been bumped once more.
There was a time when Sony was going to unleash Kraven in theaters in October 2023, but the film was then bumped to August 2024. It’ll now release on December 13, 2024.
Kraven the Hunter will be the very first Marvel movie from Sony to be released into theaters with an “R” rating, with lots of bloody violence being promised.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson stars as the title character, Marvel’s ultimate predator.
“Kraven the Hunter is the visceral story about how and why one of Marvel’s most iconic villains came to be. Set before his notorious vendetta with Spider-Man, Aaron Taylor-Johnson stars as the titular character in the R-rated film.”
Ariana DeBose will play Calypso in the upcoming Kraven the Hunter movie.
Christopher Abbott (Possessor) is playing The Foreigner, with Levi Miller (Better Watch Out) also on board. Alessandro Nivola (The Many Saints of Newark) will play another villain, but character details are under wraps. Russell Crowe and Fred Hechinger also star.
J.C. Chandor (A Most Violent Year) is directing Kraven the Hunter.
The screenplay was written by Art Marcum & Matt Holloway and Richard Wenk.
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