exactly one year later Halloween is over has come out and concluded the reboot trilogy, Miramax grabbed television rights The iconic horror film series.You wouldn’t think this series would ever leave the television space, but that’s clearly what it’s doing, and it will have its own space Michael Myers Can do his thing. (Murder. That’s a lot of murder.)
talk to deadline A few days ago, Miramax’s head of global television, Mark Helwig, spoke about the future of the show.He had no hesitation in saying that the show would use the 1978 original halloween as a starting point. Without giving away too many details, he hinted that it might explore “characters that we haven’t really focused on in recent versions of the film and even in some of these versions. It’s a complete creative reset, going back to the original film , rather than being derived from any recent film adaptation.”
every new halloween The sub-series chooses to start with an earlier film and carve out its own canon from there.David Gordon Green’s reboot takes place after the first film and slams the film’s sequels, e.g. Halloween 2 Michael Strode and Laurie Strode are long-lost siblings. in turn, Rob Zombie’s The 2007 film was a remake/reimagining of the original, while its sequel ended with the idea that Laurie might take over as the new Michael.
Speaking more broadly about the show, Helwig called getting it off the ground “a top priority.” (One suggests that part of this rapid growth may be due to the success on television of fellow horror star Chucky, whose show is in its third season.) Optimistically, he said the creative team should be finalized “soon.”The ultimate goal is to halloween living through tv and Movies are like a larger universe. It remains to be seen whether audiences will be willing to do this, or if the series has enough gas to pull it off.
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