It was just earlier today we passed along word that PULP FICTION and ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD writer-director Quentin Tarantino loves Rob Zombie's HALLOWEEN and HALLOWEEN II. And now we have some choice bits and pieces regarding his (almost) first job writing the screenplay for HALLOWEEN 6 what would become HALLOWEEN: THE CURSE OF MICHAEL MYERS.
Specifically, Tarantino says:
Yeah, yeah, well, way before I’d ever done anything… it would have been if I had done it — I never got hired — but it would have been my job to figure out who the guy in the boots is.
He continues:
And so the only thing that I had in my mind — I still hadn’t figured out who that dude was — was like the first 20 minutes would have been the Lee Van Cleef dude and Michael Myers on the highway, on the road, and they stop at coffee shops and shit and wherever Michael Myers stops, he kills everybody. So, they’re like leaving a trail of bodies on Route 66.
Well, I don't know about you but I'd have loved to see this version of HALLOWEEN 6? How about you? Let us know below!
Instead of Taratino's version, we got screenwriter Daniel Farrands' HALLOWEEN: THE CURSE OF MICHAEL MYERS which was directed by Joe Chappelle and produced by Paul Freeman. It starred Donald Pleasence, Paul Rudd, Marianne Hagan, and Mitch Ryan. Dimension Films released it back on September 29, 1995. If you don't already own HALLOWEEN: THE CURSE OF MICHAEL MYERS on Blu-ray you can BUY IT HERE.