Forty years down the line from the events of John Carpenter's HALLOWEEN, I would have expected Sheriff Leigh Brackett to have retired from law enforcement long ago. In fact, it was said in HALLOWEEN 4 that Brackett retired in the early '80s and moved to Florida. But since nothing in that movie is canon anymore, director David Gordon Green was free to get Brackett back into a police uniform for the upcoming sequel HALLOWEEN KILLS.
Rumors that Brackett would be showing up in HALLOWEEN KILLS have been going around for a couple months, but his presence in the film has now been confirmed. Charles Cyphers is back in the role he first played in 1978 (and last played in 1981's HALLOWEEN II, which is also no longer canon.) Cyphers can be seen in uniform in the set pic embedded below.
Cyphers' Brackett joins a cast that is packed with characters from the '78 film. Jamie Lee Curtis is back in the role of heroine Laurie Strode, Kyle Richards is reprising the role of Lindsey Wallace, Nancy Stephens returns as Nurse Marion, and Anthony Michael Hall and Robert Longstreet are taking on the roles of Tommy Doyle and Lonnie Elam, respectively.
Curtis has said that HALLOWEEN KILLS will
really unpack the first movie, bringing back all those characters whose lives were affected by what happened in 1978."
Directed by Green from a script he wrote with Danny McBride and Scott Teems, HALLOWEEN KILLS is a sequel to HALLOWEEN 2018, which was a sequel to HALLOWEEN 1978 that ignored the events of every HALLOWEEN movie that came between – which is why I keep talking about things no longer being canon.
The cast of HALLOWEEN KILLS also includes Judy Greer as Laurie's daughter Karen, Andi Matichak as Laurie's granddaughter Allyson, Dylan Arnold as Allyson's boyfriend / Lonnie's son Cameron, Jibrail Nantambu as Julian, and child actress Victoria Paige Watkins as a character named Christy. Original Michael Myers performer Nick Castle is also in the cast, possibly making another masked cameo like he did in HALLOWEEN 2018, and Myers is primarily being played by James Jude Courtney again.
HALLOWEEN KILLS is scheduled to reach theatres on October 16, 2020.
Once KILLS wraps, there will be a "short breather" before filming begins on another sequel, HALLOWEEN ENDS. Scripted by Green, McBride, Paul Brad Logan, and Chris Bernier, that one is scheduled 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 John Carpenter and Couper Samuelson. Carpenter will also be composing the score.