It sounds like HALLOWEEN KILLS, the latest sequel in the HALLOWEEN franchise, lives up to its title. Speaking with IndieWire, original HALLOWEEN director John Carpenter said the new film is
something else. It's fun, intense and brutal, a slasher movie times one hundred, big time. It's huge. I've never seen anything like this: the kill count!"
We've been hearing that sort of thing a lot; previous quotes from people involved have said that "violence takes on a whole new meaning" in HALLOWEEN KILLS, and that it could be the "nastiest" entry in the series.
Carpenter has composed the score for the film, and his work on it is finished. He told IndieWire,
The cut is done. They'll mix it in New York in the next week or so. Then it will be in the can. My work is all done."
Directed by HALLOWEEN 2018's David Gordon Green from a screenplay he wrote with Scott Teems and Danny McBride, HALLOWEEN KILLS stars Jamie Lee Curtis as franchise heroine Laurie Strode, Andi Matichak as Laurie's granddaughter Allyson, Judy Greer as Laurie's daughter Karen, Robert Longstreet as Lonnie Elam, Dylan Arnold as Allyson's boyfriend / Lonnie's son Cameron, Kyle Richards as Lindsey Wallace, Anthony Michael Hall as Tommy Doyle, Nancy Stephens as Nurse Marion, Charles Cyphers as Leigh Brackett, Jibrail Nantambu as scene stealer Julian, child actress Victoria Paige Watkins as a character named Christy, and James Jude Courtney as Michael Myers. Nick Castle, who played Michael Myers in the original HALLOWEEN, is also in the cast, possibly making another masked cameo like he did in the previous film.
The film is heading toward an October 16, 2020 release.
HALLOWEEN KILLS will be followed quickly by another sequel, HALLOWEEN ENDS. Green will be directing and has written the script with McBride, Paul Brad Logan, and Chris Bernier. That one is aiming for an October 15, 2021 release.
Malek Akkad is producing these films with Jason Blum and Bill Block. Green, McBride, and Curtis serve as executive producers alongside Couper Samuelson and Carpenter.