The deal has been in the works for quite awhile. The original Halloween was made for very little money and it was a little, scary tale. So hopefully we can guide it back in the original direction.”īlum: “I think we want to take it back to basics and not get into too much backstory.”Ĭarpenter: “The biggest challenge is to be true to the original spirit of the movie. If you start straying away from that, and you get into explaining, then you”ve lost. I feel like the remakes maybe went off somewhere that I didn”t want them to go.”Ĭarpenter: “Michael Myers is not a character. The film will harken back to the stripped-down aesthetic of the original.Ĭarpenter: “You know what? We”re probably going to go back to the original tradition that we started. “He”s going to godfather us, be involved with this movie creatively, and in the initial few conversations that we”ve had with directors, they”ve felt the same way we did: No one wanted to do this without John,” said Blum.Ħ. Carpenter is being billed as the new film's creative “godfather.” “What I can tell you is, it”ll be a movie.”ĥ. “We can”t tell you yet… because we don”t know,” said Carpenter. What form the new film will take - sequel, remake, prequel - hasn't been decided yet. “He”s going to produce, and hopefully score… he drives a hard bargain but I am a good negotiator, so hopefully he is going to score it too,” said Blum.Ĥ. If he does, he'll work with his son Cody, who has contributed to the elder Carpenter's recent musical output. Carpenter may also score the film, though negotiations haven't been completed yet.

Malek, who will produce through his Trancas International Films banner, was involved in several of the later installments and produced Rob Zombie's remake and its sequel.ģ. The film is being produced by Miramax, Jason Blum's Blumhouse Pictures and Malek Akkad, whose father financed and produced the first eight films in the Halloween series.

“So… I decided, after bitching for years and years about Halloween sequels, I would come aboard and shepherd this thing,” said the filmmaker.Ģ. This is Carpenter's first involvement in the franchise since he scored and produced 1982's Halloween III: Season of the Witch. So what do we know so far? Here's a quick primer to get you up to speed (all quotes courtesy of Dread Central).ġ. As we've already reported, John Carpenter is returning to the Halloween franchise for the first time in over 30 years to executive produce a new installment.

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