Director David Gordon Green's HALLOWEEN KILLS, a sequel to his 2018 HALLOWEEN (which was itself a sequel to the 1978 HALLOWEEN and ignored all of the other HALLOWEEN movies in between), doesn't have an official synopsis yet. While we're sure that it's going to be about knife-wielding masked killer Michael Myers adding more victims to his body count, it's not clear what approach Green and co-writers Danny McBride and Scott Teems are taking to the story. Will it take place on the same night as HALLOWEEN 2018? A year or two later? We don't know. But judging by some images and a video that have leaked out from the set, it looks like at least part of the film is going to take place in 1978.
Jamie Lee Curtis, who will again be reprising the role of heroine Laurie Strode, has said that HALLOWEEN KILLS will delve into the trauma that people who have encountered Michael Myers have to deal with, and it will
really unpack the first movie, bringing back all those characters whose lives were affected by what happened in 1978."
Other characters returning from the 1978 film are Lindsey Wallace (played by Kyle Richards), Tommy Doyle (now played by Anthony Michael Hall), Nurse Marion (Nancy Stephens), and Lonnie Elam (now played by Robert Longstreet). Except for Lonnie, all of those characters had direct encounters with Michael Myers… and so Lonnie doesn't feel left out, it looks like Green has shot a scene set on Halloween night 1978 that does show Lonnie crossing paths with Myers.
Other characters who have had run-ins with Myers and are back for HALLOWEEN KILLS include Laurie's daughter Karen (Judy Greer), Laurie's granddaughter Allyson (Andi Matichak), and Julian (Jibrail Nantambu), who saw his babysitter get attacked by Myers in HALLOWEEN 2018.
Dylan Arnold is back in the role of Allyson's boyfriend / Lonnie's son Cameron, child actress Victoria Paige Watkins is apparently playing a character named Christy, and there's a rumor that Charles Cyphers may be back as Brackett. 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.
In addition to offering a glimpse of the Lonnie flashback, the set pics embedded below also show cast members on set and reveal that HALLOWEEN KILLS may be returning to the HALLOWEEN II setting of Haddonfield Memorial Hospital.
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.