James Jude Courtney: Halloween Kills is Halloween (2018) on speed

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

Blumhouse and director David Gordon Green's HALLOWEEN KILLS might be the "nastiest" HALLOWEEN of them all. And today actor/stuntman James Jude Courtney (aka Michael Myers) says the new film is intense and basically HALLOWEEN (2018) on speed. 

He tells Pop Culture With Pat:

We have to make the natural progression from 1978 to 2018 to Halloween Kills – the ante has be upped. The ticking bomb has to be more intense. Otherwise, we’re just doing what we’ve done before. We pumped up the volume on this one. We’ve progressed late into the night, and now that everybody realizes what the stakes are…it’s reaching a head. It’s [HALLOWEEN 2018] on speed.

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How excited are you for HALLOWEEN KILLS and HALLOWEEN ENDS? Let us know below! In the meantime, remember that HALLOWEEN KILLS and HALLOWEEN ENDS are set to be direct continuations of HALLOWEEN (2018) which kicked off

40 years after Laurie Strode survived a vicious attack from crazed killer Michael Myers on Halloween night. Locked up in an institution, Myers manages to escape when his bus transfer goes horribly wrong. Laurie now faces a terrifying showdown when the masked madman returns to Haddonfield, Ill. — but this time, she's ready for him.

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The current cast includes the return of Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode along with Judy Greer as Laurie's daughter Karen and Andi Matichak as Laurie's granddaughter Allyson. Anthony Michael Hall joins them as adult Tommy Doyle along with Kyle Richards as adult Lindsey Wallace. Jibrail Nantambu is back as young Julian with Robert Longstreet as Lonnie Elam, and Charles Cyphers is rumored to return as Brackett.

Written by David Gordon Green & Danny McBride & Scott Teems, based on characters created by John Carpenter and Debra Hill, it's directed by David Gordon Green and produced by Malek Akkad, Jason Blum, and Bill Block. Carpenter, Curtis, McBride, and Green are executive producers along with Jeanette Volturno, Couper Samuelson, and Ryan Freimann. Ryan Turek oversees for Blumhouse. It hits on October 16, 2020.