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 There won’t be just one sequel to Halloween
but two. Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions will team on Halloween
Kills (October 2020) and Halloween Ends (October 2021). Director/co-writer David
Gordon Green, writer Danny McBride, Jamie Lee Curtis and Nick Castle as The
Shape are confirmed. Collider talked with Green and McBride at the HBO panel at
the TV Critics Association press tour and Green confirmed the films will shoot
back-to-back: “We start in September and shoot them back-to-back with a breather
between. But they’ll be out in two consecutive years, in 2020 and 2021. You get
a breather this year, and then, for the next two years, it’s gonna be crazy.”
McBride said that the story that runs through Halloween Ends was thought up when
they came up with the story for the 2018 film. Now when they started making the
2018 film, the original plan was for two movies, but they changed that once
things got going: “That was our plan. Relaunching it for just one, we wanted it
to have a bigger story. We were originally going to even shoot them back to
back, but as soon as we got it up and running, we took a look at ourselves and
were like, ‘You know what? We should make sure we can do one of them good,
before we bite off trying to do three of them. So, we just put all of our
efforts into trying to make the first one land. There was talk, right away, of
us doing more of these. We just needed to get everybody aligned and see if
everybody was down with the vision. Luckily, everyone is. It’s just a
continuation of it. It’s telling the story, moving forward. It’s not another
reinvention or anything like that. It’s this world that we’ve established, and
then it continues beyond the events of the first one.”
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