Hearing that Rob Zombie’s HALLOWEEN will have a bit more back-story to the character of Michael Myers is nothing new. But what’s cool is hearing Tyler Mane discuss this interpretation of the character.
In a recent interview, Mane talked about the new variation of the masked killer: “It was very interesting and it was fun to create how Michael Myers became a product of his environment so to speak and how he was turned into Michael Myers and what he became in the films,” said Mane. “It was kind of good to take it back a little bit further than the other ones, to give that extra little bit of history that Rob presented too.”
When I first heard about the back story to Myers and how they wanted to explain why he was a maniac I was fearful that we were going to get too much childhood drama and it would take away from the character’s mystique, but according to Mane, there is little to worry about. “He has a fantastic vision for it. He wanted to keep it quite a bit like the original but he also wanted to add some extra things and show a little bit more about Michael Myers instead of just having him a one dimensional character like he’s been in the past.”
As for the reoccurring rumors that this film is just the beginning of a long series of films, Mane had this to say: “We will see. If the people like what I brought to Michael Myers, hopefully we’ll see him again and again and again.”