Last year’s Halloween explored the 40-years-later trauma of Laurie Strode, terrorized by Michael Myers in 1978 and forever shaped and changed by those events. And it looks like Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends will continue down that path, with the next films bringing back other original characters including Tommy Doyle, Lindsay Wallace and Lonnie Elam.
Speaking with Collider this week, returning star Jamie Lee Curtis teases what’s coming.
“The ass-kicking part is the fan-favorite part, but from my standpoint, I didn’t go into it because I got to kick Michael’s bottom. I was particularly drawn because it was a movie about trauma,” the actress told the site. “The trauma that occurs for these characters for forty years, I felt was very important that David understood that and was really giving Laurie great honor to acknowledge that her experience of her life was very challenged. I think that if from the opening section I was kicking butt, it wouldn’t have had the emotional reaction that people actually had.”
Curtis continued, “What I love that David and Danny and company did is they connected the dots for forty years, now they’re going back to really unpack the first movie, bringing back all those characters whose lives were affected by what happened in 1978.”
She teased, “I promise you what David Gordon Green has come up with as a way to complete this trilogy is sensational.”
Halloween Kills will arrive in theaters on October 16, 2020 followed by Halloween Ends on October 15, 2021, with David Gordon Green returning to direct both films.