Most major properties that are designed with franchise potential in mind tend to be imagined as the first in a trilogy, but that doesn’t typically tend to be the case in the horror genre. When it comes to scaring audiences out of their seats, most new titles are released as a standalone story, with sequels almost instantly given the green light based on the opening weekend box office.
Halloween is no stranger to sequels, but when David Gordon Green and Danny McBride signed on to reinvent the classic slasher series for modern audiences, the duo always had a three-film arc in mind. When their 2018 hybrid of sequel and reboot scored the best reviews Michael Myers had seen for 40 years and made more money than the last five installments combined, Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends were almost instantly approved and dated for release one year apart.
That’s still the plan,...
Halloween is no stranger to sequels, but when David Gordon Green and Danny McBride signed on to reinvent the classic slasher series for modern audiences, the duo always had a three-film arc in mind. When their 2018 hybrid of sequel and reboot scored the best reviews Michael Myers had seen for 40 years and made more money than the last five installments combined, Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends were almost instantly approved and dated for release one year apart.
That’s still the plan,...
- 1/9/2021
- by Scott Campbell
- We Got This Covered
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