Rumor: Doctor Loomis returns in Halloween Kills?

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

At the end of January, a test screening was held for director David Gordon Green's HALLOWEEN 1978 / HALLOWEEN 2018 sequel HALLOWEEN KILLS, and one of the reactions we heard after that screening mentioned that "One major character returns. (Someone whose presence hasn't been announced yet.)" Now the website DU-HD is reporting that a source told them, 

the beloved Dr. Loomis will indeed be one of the surprise returns in the film’s 1978 flashback sequence with Michael Myers. 

This hasn't been confirmed, but an appearance by Loomis wouldn't be a total shock. As DU-HD says, HALLOWEEN KILLS does feature a flashback to the night of the original HALLOWEEN, at which time Loomis was out on the streets of Haddonfield trying to stop the killing spree being carried out by Michael Myers. The idea that Green would want to put Loomis into the new movie becomes even less surprising when you take into account that the director originally planned to reshoot the ending of HALLOWEEN '78 for HALLOWEEN '18 and include a moment where Myers kills Loomis. 

John Carpenter was credited with talking Green out of shooting that sequence for the previous film, and has said that his "one big contribution" was to convince Green not to show Loomis being killed because "The audience won't like that."

Green did get a Donald Pleasence sound-alike to record new audio clips for HALLOWEEN '18, so if Loomis is back in HALLOWEEN KILLS and has lines to deliver, we can probably expect that same person to cover the vocal performance. When the character was going to be seen in the previous movie, 

We cast a Loomis double who was our art director because we didn't want to bring one in. He looked exactly like him."

Maybe the art director finally got his acting gig this time around.

HALLOWEEN '18 established that Loomis did survive the night of Halloween 1978, so we can rest assured that Green is going to stick with the advice Carpenter gave him and not kill the character in this flashback. If Loomis does appear in the flashback at all.

We'll have to wait and see if he makes a cameo, but we do know that the film stars Jamie Lee Curtis as franchise heroine Laurie Strode, Andi Matichak as Laurie's granddaughter Allyson, Robert Longstreet as Lonnie Elam, Judy Greer as Laurie's daughter Karen, Kyle Richards as Lindsey Wallace, Anthony Michael Hall as Tommy Doyle, Nancy Stephens as Nurse Marion, Charles Cyphers as Leigh Brackett, Dylan Arnold as Allyson's boyfriend / Lonnie's son Cameron, Jibrail Nantambu as scene stealer Julian, child actress Victoria Paige Watkins as a character named Christy, and James Jude Courtney as Michael Myers. Nick Castle, who played Michael Myers in the original HALLOWEEN, is also in the cast, possibly making another masked cameo like he did in the previous film.

Green directed HALLOWEEN KILLS from a screenplay he wrote with Scott Teems and Danny McBride. The film is heading toward an October 16, 2020 release.

HALLOWEEN KILLS will be followed quickly by another sequel, HALLOWEEN ENDS. Green will be directing and has written the script with McBride, Paul Brad Logan, and Chris Bernier. That one is aiming 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.