Despite Dimension Films announcing two weeks ago that
Halloween 2 would be a Direct-to-DVD sequel, producer Malek Akkad said at this weekend's
Halloween: 30 Years of Terror convention in Pasadena that any and all sequels would first have a theatrical release. According to
Bloody Disgusting, the next installment will be a direct follow-up to Rob Zombie's 2007
Halloween remake.
Though it is not known if this next film will follow Michael Myers adventures in a hospital, as 1981's original
Halloween II did, it was reported that Tyler Mane, the man behind the mask in Zombie's installment, would be returning as the omnipresent killer.
No further story details have been released. The film does not have a set start date at this time.
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translation: im not reading any of that.
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and a few others. but i indeed liked it more i found the original boring and just not entertaing you may think im into the new films and hate all originals thats not true. i like jaws,exorcist friday the 13 and many others so its not the remake thing just think of this as a new movie if you hate it and its way better, i just didnt like the original it was boring. and i dont find vilolence scary i find it shocking and entertaing..lol but i though his was better. and for those of you who said myers was a pussy for having a heart? are you nuts the sequels showed more of his heart dumbass'es and showed more sympaphy for him like robs. btw, i do enjoy gory films though..lol
@ JR: The original was based on REAL terror. Rob's was, your right, NOT scary, but your wrong that it was MORE scary. His was based on VIOLENCE, not TERROR. You, JR, are just so blinded by blood that you forget what true terror is. Terror isn't "torture porn." Torture Porn, such as in Halloween or Hostel, is designed to get you horny, and then slash the horniness right out of ya when ya see the girl get thier throat slashed while getting porked...NOT scary
and and what the hell? Why would they even THINK to make a movie like this to be a direct to DVD film? But I am glad to know there will be a sequel. Hopefully it'll be better than the original Halloween II, because that one sucked.
That said, in viewing what we call the "classic" recently I realized something. Halloween was only classic because of its time. When it came in there was nothing like it, and for a long time there was nothing replacing Myers. As children or whenever we first saw Carpenter's vision it was aw inspiring in the scope of horror. But now that I've seen it again, I thought as I always have since the initial thrill died, what was the real point. There was nothing menacing about that Myers. There was no real method to the madness. For goodness sake, we didn't even know that Jamie Lee Curtis was his sister in the first film. We didn't know why he was doing what he was doing except for the rants of the hysterical and loopy Dr. Loomis. We just accepted it. There wasn't much story told, we were just left to wonder. And Carpenter himself didn't plan on expanding the story. He was really making that one up as he went along. It was a great concept. It was a gripping one as well. Michael Myers was scary because on Halloween night, he could have easily been anyone in a crowd. Not knowing what direction imminent danger is coming is the worst way to get it. But that Myers still didn't do much to grip you to keep it real. He didn't wreak havoc, he killed a few kids to get to Laurie. He clung to shadows and landscapes sneaking up on sinful teenagers sending them to their doom, the boogie man.
We grow attached to our so called, "classics". 7 times out of 10 a remake or re-imagining turns out to be lack luster. For that reason, we don't care to see what we already grew to embrace tarnished for another vision. But there are those few occasions that our classic cinema can be updated and brought out in a way that the original takes couldn't convey. They are sometimes more thought out, more thought provoking, and more realistic in a heightened reality as it is. We don't want to see our classics as flawed when someone comes along to revamp them. But don't confuse a remake with a re-imagining. That only means one is inspired by the concept of the other, but not actually drawing from it.
Zombie didn't remake a classic, he created a stand alone of his own. He made Myers more of a psychological character. Not an invincible shape, but one that had psychopathic traits too far gone before anything could have been done about it. As he spent time in captivity, he fell further and deeper into his mind eventually becoming trapped there. He was hell bent on connecting with the only thing he could identify with, the only person, Laurie. But in his finding her, she wasn't the baby sister left behind years ago. She was on the brink of adulthood and into a life that kept a wall between them. He had a rage in him as a child that took over, it wasn't the teasing that brought him to kill, it was an urge. It was a craving that even he didn't connect with until he lost himself in the institution. This Myers was sincerely crazy, not a shape, but a similar concept. His life was gone before it had a chance to begin. He was meshed with internal rage and dysfunctional environment and needed to be ended. It made a lot of sense and was a great film once you remove it from Carpenter's vision and accept Zombie's as its own.
A sequel though, that's unnecessary for this. There is really no other direction to go in from the way Zombies graphic chiller ended. I'm not interested because it is now threatened to fall under the same scrutiny as Carpenter's vision had with so many senseless sequels to it building a bogus story around the boogie man; though admittedly I did enjoy H2O. I don't care to see a sequel made to Zombie's work, it really doesn't make sense to make one unless this Myers can transcend death. But there is that slight curiosity that makes me want to read the plot to it.
in the remake they made him a contemptuous psychopath.
anyway i agree with the vis, but i still liked zombies version, even if they did change the origin-portion of the story.
they'll probably some washed up lame ass to do it, like steve miner, and he can spray his crativity-free diarhea all over it and serve it to us on a paper plate.
hell maybe they'll get some over the hill rapper to star, like ja rule, or xzibit.
the remake stunk so bad
they should be ashamed of themselves
HOW CAN HOLLYWOOD RE-MAKE A SEQUEL OF A SEQUEL...?? I'M CONFUSED.....OHHHH WIAT THIS WAS ALREADY DONE W./"The Hills Have Eyes" PART 1 & 2 ALREADY!!!
I GUESS THE RENT IS DUE AND ROB ZOMBIE NEEDS TO MAKE A HOUSE PAYMENT! The Re-make of "Halloween" was just shit! A pure waste of money and the energy of a casts time and talent!
i guess we'll have to wait and see.
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