Despite previous reports that Miramax Television were planning to rework John Carpenter’s iconic and ongoing slasher horror film series, Halloween, into a new TV series as part of a new universe centred around notorious serial killer Michael Myers, there are now talks that Miramax will instead release a complete reboot of the films in 2028.
This follows the end of the partnership between Miramax and Universal once the Blumhouse trilogy, released between 2018 and 2022 as Halloween, Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends by director David Gordon Green, wrapped up, and Paramount Pictures may become the new distributor for the property.
News of the initially planned TV series broke in late 2023, detailing how Miramax triumphed in a bidding war, with Miramax’s Head of Global TV, Marc Helwig, overseeing the project alongside Malek Akkad, the head of Trancas International Films, as a creative partner. The series was designed to kickstart a new cinematic universe, resetting the events depicted in the last trilogy, which itself was a complete recon of the original franchise, which also had a minor recon within itself.
“We couldn’t be more excited to bring Halloween to television,” Helwig had stated alongside the reveal. “We are thrilled to expand our long and successful partnership with Trancas and the brilliant Malek Akkad in introducing this iconic franchise to a new form of storytelling and a new generation of fans.”
Akkad himself added, “Trancas International Films is extremely enthused to be expanding our long-standing relationship with Miramax, and we look forward to working with Marc Helwig and the entire team in creating this new chapter.”
However, nearly three years on, this series is rumoured to be currently repackaged into a new film to showcase “yet another reinvention of the universe created by John Carpenter” and “present a fresh approach to the franchise.”
The Halloween franchise started in 1978 with Carpenter’s terrifying festive story of a 21-year-old Michael Myers returning to his hometown, Haddonfield, exactly 15 years after he murdered his older sister on Halloween night, finding a new target in an unsuspecting babysitter, Laurie, played by Jamie Lee Curtis. The film went on to be one of the most profitable independent films ever made and is now hailed as one of horror’s greatest works. It was followed by a 1981 sequel and a third 1982 installment, titled Halloween III: Season of the Witch, which Michael does not appear in and instead centres on witchcraft over slasher tropes.
We then came into a Thorn Trilogy story arc for 1988’s Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers, 1989’s Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers and 1995’s Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, which depicts the antagonist as a creation of a Celtic cult due to a supernatural possession, answering for his immortality and evil nature. However, this was dropped for 1998’s Halloween H20: 20 Years Later, which returned to a post-traumatic Laurie, which was followed by 2002’s Halloween: Resurrection.
Source: Dark Horizons
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