Indeed, details have emerged from the Halloween trailer that played at CinemaCon, which reveal that when Green and McBride said this would be a direct sequel to only 1978’s Halloween, they weren’t kidding. For starters, they’re doing away with what has been the crux of all the Halloween sequels since 1981: that Michael Myers is stalking Jamie Lee Curtis’ Laurie Strode because she is his little sister. further reading: Halloween Ending Explained But no, Curtis’ Laurie appears in the trailer still living in Haddonfield and says, “I pray every night that he would escape… so I could kill him.” This, however, returns to the original and mostly forgotten dread of the first film where Laurie and her friends were selected by Michael at total random; he did it because Laurie was the first young woman he saw from his childhood home after he escaped. Returning to that original pretense of evil simply is, man, will likewise probably benefit from John Carpenter producing the film. Considering how much some of the sequels, and especially the remakes/reboots masterminded by Rob Zombie, made much out of the “broken family” angle to Michael Myers, this is a pretty major departure for the franchise. As is the idea that Michael spent 40 years in an asylum. This is, again, informed by the original film in which he spent close to 20 years also in an asylum. Given that David Gordon Green (Snow Angels, George Washington) is directing this from a script he co-wrote with his longtime collaborator McBride (including work on television’s gloriously demented Eastbound & Down), we’re willing to see just where this leads by going home. Home to Haddonfield for the holidays.
