Jamie Lee Curtis: Halloween Kills about a mob, Ends about the legacy of evil

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

If 2020 had gone according to plan, HALLOWEEN 2018 (watch it HERE) director David Gordon Green's sequel HALLOWEEN KILLS would be in theatres right now. Unfortunately, we have to wait until October 15th, 2021 to see that one – and then another year to see Green finish his trilogy with HALLOWEEN ENDS.

Franchise heroine Jamie Lee Curtis is going to be in both HALLOWEEN KILLS and HALLOWEEN ENDS, and during an interview on SiriusXM's The Jess Cagle Show she gave some hints as to what we can expect to see from those sequels.

She said HALLOWEEN KILLS is 

about a mob. So what I will tell you is that what we were seeing around the country of the power of the rage of voices, big groups of people coming together enraged at the set of circumstances, that's what the movie is. The movie is about a mob. And so it's very interesting, because it takes on what happens when trauma infects an entire community. And we're seeing it everywhere with the Black Lives Matter movement. We're seeing it in action and HALLOWEEN KILLS weirdly enough dovetailed onto that, preceded it, it was written before that occurred. So when you see it, it's a seething group of people moving through the story as a big angry group, it's really, really, really intense. It's a masterpiece."

While HALLOWEEN 2018 dealt with Laurie's trauma, KILLS will show us that 

trauma isn't just Laurie's. It was the entire community. It was the police officers. It was the little children. And that's to me, by the way, that's all the genius of David Gordon Green and Danny McBride. It's all their construction. And again, I want to remind everybody, it was pre Black Lives Matter movement, and yet the same activity takes over in HALLOWEEN KILLS."

Curtis was hesitant to say anything about HALLOWEEN ENDS beyond "it's amazing, it's just amazing," but she finally said that 

it really has to do with the nature of evil and the legacy of evil."

Directed by David Gordon Green from a screenplay he wrote with Danny McBride and Scott Teems, HALLOWEEN KILLS stars Jamie Lee Curtis as 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. Original Michael Myers performer Nick Castle also has a one scene cameo.

Jason Blum produced the film with Malek Akkad, and Bill Block. Green, McBride, and Curtis serve as executive producers alongside Couper Samuelson and John Carpenter. Carpenter has also composed the score.