Sadly, this week brought news that “Halloween Kills,” which was scheduled to arrive in theaters this October, has been delayed until 2021. This news especially hurts because the last feature in the franchise, 2018’s “Halloween,” was such a shot in the arm for the series, the anticipation for the sequel has been immense. Well, according to the film’s star, Jamie Lee Curtis, the delay is disappointing, but it’ll be okay.
The announcement of the delay was accompanied by a letter from director David Gordon Green and producer-filmmaker John Carpenter explaining the reason for the new date. Blumhouse also released a new teaser for the feature, showing the first footage from the sequel. And that definitely helped ease the pain of the delay. And Curtis shared the footage and explained why she’s okay with waiting another year.
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“I’m as disappointed as you are. It is a masterpiece! It will be worth the WAIT!” tweeted the star.
In the film, Curtis plays Laurie Strode, the hero from the original 1978 film who has now grown to become a badass (but definitely traumatized) matriarch of her family. And at the end of the previous film, she survived along with her daughter and granddaughter. But the footage in the teaser picks up immediately after the events of the film and hints that Michael Myers is far from dead.
According to an interview with Empire, Danny McBride (who co-wrote the previous film and the two sequels) and Green spoke about what “Halloween Kills” is really about and when it takes place.
It takes place the same night, picking up where the last movie ended,” McBride explained. “Events in the film bring together a lot of characters who were in the 1978 film who we didn’t see last time. They gather to try, once and for all, to take down Michael, to stop this madman.”
Green added, “This first one was more about Laurie’s life of isolation after Michael and her attempts at revenge. It was personal. This is more about the unraveling of a community into chaos. It’s about how fear spreads virally.”
As mentioned, we still have more than a year to wait before we’ll see “Halloween Kills” when it arrives in theaters on October 15, 2021.