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David Gordon Green Promises That ‘Halloween Ends’ Will Indeed End *This* Michael/Laurie Story
It was announced last week that David Gordon Green‘s Halloween will be getting *two* sequels in the coming years, with Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends filming back to back beginning this September; Kills will be released in theaters on October 16, 2020, followed by Ends on October 15, 2021. And yes, Gordon Green is coming back to direct BOTH films.
Mind you, horror franchises often promise “final” installments that don’t actually turn out to be, but what’s interesting about this particular take on the Halloween saga is that there’s a definitive endgame in mind. Mind you, that doesn’t mean we’ll never see Laurie Strode or Michael Myers again, but *this iteration* of the storyline will wrap up in 2021.
Speaking with Collider this week, Gordon Green promised a conclusion in two years.
“They’re never done telling the Frankenstein story, and at this point, Michael Myers is a classic movie monster. But our Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode/Michael Myers saga will be done,” Gordon Green told the site. “The fun of it is also seeing it end and knowing that it can. If you just keep trying to elongate it and milk it for all of the money, then that’s boring.”
Mind you, 2018’s Halloween also promised “the final battle” between Laurie and Michael, so here’s hoping Halloween Ends actually delivers on that promise in 2021.
Co-writer Danny McBride added, “I’m sure that, when we’re done, other people will come in and do the same thing, or have their own reinvention. Michael Myers is iconic enough to allow that, too. He’s like James Bond, where you can have different actors and different filmmakers. He represents something so simple and scary that he can be translated by lots of different people.”
Gordon Green and McBride co-wrote Halloween Ends with Paul Brad Logan and Chris Bernier.
After pulling in $28 million at the worldwide box office this month, director (and star) Dev Patel’s critically acclaimed action-thriller Monkey Man is now available to watch at home.
You can rent Monkey Man for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99!
Monkey Man is currently 88% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro awarding the film 4.5/5 stars in her review out of SXSW back in March.
Meagan raves, “While the violence onscreen is palpable and painful, it’s not just the exquisite fight choreography and thrilling action set pieces that set Monkey Man apart but also its political consciousness, unique narrative structure, and myth-making scale.”
“While Monkey Man pays tribute to all of the action genre’s greats, from the Indonesian action classics to Korean revenge cinema and even a John Wick joke or two, Dev Patel’s cultural spin and unique narrative structure leave behind all influences in the dust for new terrain,” Meagan’s review continues.
She adds, “Monkey Man presents Dev Patel as a new action hero, a tenacious underdog with a penetrating stare who bites, bludgeons, and stabs his way through bodies to gloriously bloody excess. More excitingly, the film introduces Patel as a strong visionary right out of the gate.”
Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.
Monkey Man is produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.
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