Director David Gordon Green is currently putting the finishing touches on HALLOWEEN KILLS, the sequel to his 2018 movie HALLOWEEN – which was, of course, itself a sequel to John Carpenter's 1978 classic HALLOWEEN. We know post-production is far enough along that a test screening was held last month (and received positive reactions), and it's on track to make its October 16th release date.
So now what about HALLOWEEN ENDS, the sequel Green is going to be directing for an October 15, 2021 release? Speaking to The Evolution of Horror, producer Jason Blum confirmed that he has watched a cut of HALLOWEEN KILLS and gave a small update on HALLOWEEN ENDS:
HALLOWEEN KILLS, I saw it a couple weeks ago, it's amazing, it's super big. The canvas of the movie is big. For us (Blumhouse), it's much bigger than our normal canvas. It's amazing, it's super violent, and I loved it. The third movie, we're not going to start shooting it for three or four months."
This interview was posted on February 27th, so it sounds like HALLOWEEN ENDS is aiming to start filming sometime in the range of May – July. By the time KILLS is in theatres, ENDS will already be in post-production.
Directed by Green from a screenplay he wrote with Danny McBride and Scott Teems, HALLOWEEN KILLS stars Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode, Kyle Richards as Lindsey Wallace, Anthony Michael Hall as Tommy Doyle, Nancy Stephens as Nurse Marion, Robert Longstreet as Lonnie Elam, and Charles Cyphers as Leigh Brackett. All of them are characters whose lives were affected by Michael Myers in '78. Returning from HALLOWEEN 2018 are Judy Greer as Laurie's daughter Karen, Andi Matichak as Laurie's granddaughter Allyson, Dylan Arnold as Allyson's boyfriend / Lonnie's son Cameron, and Jibrail Nantambu as scene stealer Julian. One new addition is 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.
Curtis has said that KILLS will
really unpack the first movie, bringing back all those characters whose lives were affected by what happened in 1978."
She has also said that ENDS will deal with
the sort of cultural phenomenon of violence. That's what the third movie ultimately is, a very powerful examination of violence. It comes at it from a slightly different way."
Malek Akkad is producing these films with 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.