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I know this is only a film and all, but how many times are they going to have Myers come back to life, and kill him again. Even for Hollywood this has become far fetched. I assume it is going to be Myers?
The last couple of films done good, but this is taking it over the top IMO. I think I'll just make myself a little shelter and seek refuge when this one is released to avoid all those trailers and so on. LOL!!
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It's been confirmed that Rob Zombie is indeed directing, writing and producing the next Halloween film, according to the official site.
Looks like he will also score the soundtrack.
Zombie's vision of this film is an entirely new take on the legend and will satisfy fans of the classic "Halloween" legacy while beginning a new chapter in the Michael Myers saga. This new movie will not only appeal to horror fans, but to a wider movie-going audience as well. It will not be a copycat of any prior films in the "Halloween" franchise. The film is set for an October 2007 theatrical release.
Bob Weinstein stated, "Rob Zombie is a gifted musician and performer as well as a talented filmmaker. His vision for this new 'Halloween' is spectacular and I am thrilled to be collaborating with him and to work closely with Malek Akkad to continue the legacy built by his father, the late Moustapha Akkad."
Zombie said, "I have been a huge, huge fan of John Carpenter's original film since its release. So when Bob Weinstein approached me about this, I jumped at the chance to join forces with Dimension Films on this amazing project."
"I am thrilled to be working again with Rob and with Dimension Films on such an iconic project that will reinvigorate 'Halloween' and Michael Myers in a truly terrifying new way," stated Andy Gould, Rob Zombie's long time manager and producer of Zombie's two previous films.
Hmm. Interesting. Not too thrilled myself, rather gutted. I just prey this does not end up like House Of A Thousand Corpses, I thought that was complete cod.
Let us all forget that the concept for Halloween was stolen material from a left over Bob Clark interview on the behalf of John Carpenter to begin with.
Rob needs to reinvent the series, maybe he can make it a semi original idea... Maybe???
Basically it sounds like the majority of this film will be a prequal and then the latter will be a slight remake of H1.
Sounds good and bad to me. I know a lot of people dont care much about these films either way and that is fair enough. But as a hardcore fan (sad but true), I think the good is that this guy might actually make a Halloween film that is not just a copy of the original. What I mean is that every sequal is basically just trying to be Halloween 1 all over again anyway so Im up for a different approach. Going back and then explaining the whole thing is good for an alternative storyline and making it a bit different so that can only be good.
The bad, for me, is Michael Myers does not need explaining. The moment you explain him then the whole point is over, really. I dont like remakes and this is, despite the talk, is one. Im not really all for a prequal either, but I will look forward to it nonetheless.
On a good note, at least the original John Carpenter theme tune will definitly be involved!
I'm not a big fan of remakes, especially horror remakes. They tend to be just terrible, I don't think I need to list the most recent autrocities that we've been tortured with, I'm sure you all know what I'm talking about. But Rob Zombie just seems to be able to do the near impossible these days: make a good horror film. I haven't actually seen any of his films myself, but I have actually heard some very good things about The Devil's Rejects so this may not be a bad idea at all.
I suppose that going back to the beginning of the series is a lot better than them doing a prequel or yet another sequel. I don't even know how many there are now, I think I heard that it was eight or nine films in all. I'm not sure if I'll see this one or not, I haven't even seen the original one. So maybe I'll check them both out and see.
By the way, does anyone know if they've cast the young Michael Meyers? I know he kills some people when he's like five years old so I was wonder if they had cast the role yet. Hopefully it's a kid who's really creepy.
Halloween had a total of eight films. By the sixth film, they were going down a very cerebral path of a legend which caused Michael to do his kills, and since that was rapidly losing its target audience (albeit somewhat interesting), they basically restarted it with H20 allowing you to watch 1, 2 and then skip to H20 and Resurrection, avoiding all the films inbetween (so you can get around the idea that Laurie Strode abandoned her child when she "faked" her own death). It's not a bad series really, and John Carpenter's original film is sufficiently creepy and worth watching if you haven't yet.
As a massive Halloween fan, I have to say I was very dissapointed with the appointment of Rob Zombie as director. The guy is no where near what I would call a good director nor a good storyteller. I think The House Of 1000 Coprses is a complete disaster of a film.
I have not seen The Devils Rejects and I wont until I can see it free. I have seen little bits here and there but what I have seen mostly revovles around the type of crap I dislike in horror movies - gore, explict langague, needless scenes. It'ts just not scary to me and while it may be shocking or whatnot, I think it is just trash cinema.
I hope I eat my words when this comes out, but I really doubt it.
Apologies if this thread exists - I have looked back and could not find one.
Yeah, there was an original thread. Weird thing is, you were the one that started the original thread. Things get even weirder; I found another Halloween remake thread, created by me. They’ve all been merged.
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Yeah, there was an original thread. Weird thing is, you were the one that started the original thread. Things get even weirder; I found another Halloween remake thread, created by me. They’ve all been merged.
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Nyuk nyuk nyuk. So yeah, I read up on this a while ago. The 500th Halloween sequel came out in 2002 I believe, so now the series is being restarted through Zombie's image(and you know there will be sequels). I think Zombie did a fantastic job with "Devil's Rejects" as it was a huge step forward from the original H1000C, so I'm hoping he can pull something great off here and reverse my skeptism.
Well I find Malcolm MacDowell to be appropriately creepy so I don't think he'll be any disappointment. The movie I think rests on the rest of the cast and the writer. But you know what they say: if a movie is successful, it's everybodies contribution that made it great, but if it fails it's all the director's fault. Like all other upcoming films, horror or no, we'll have to wait and see. This could be the best horror movie since The Descent, which I realise isn't all that long ago but I couldn'd think of a good horror movie that has come out in the last five years or so besides that one.
At the very, very least Zombie will make an interesting film. If it's not good, then at least we'll know it will be different. I don't pretend to be a big fan of his, but I've heard that his films are both good and bizarre so, as I said, we'll see how we go when the film hits theatres.
Dr. Loomis - played by Malcolm McDowell Young Michael Myers - played by Daeg Faerch Adult Michael Myers - played by Tyler Mane Deborah Myers - played by Sheri Moon Zombie Mason Strode - played by Pat Skipper Cynthia Strode - played by Dee Wallace Stone Ronnie White - played by William Forsythe Big Joe - played by Ken Foree Nole Kluggs - played by Lew Temple Ismael Cruz - played by Danny Trejo
I think that is 5 that were in Zombie's last two movies. That does not concern me as I have no problem with directors using actors they feel are reliable and trustworthy to do the job.
Ken Foree, what a legend, is only playing a small role as are most of the above so it will be quite interesting to see who has the major lead. In that I mean who will play Laurie. Rumours are Danielle Harris (who played the kid, Jamie Llyod in Halloween 4 and 5 ) might be, but I think she will get a different part.
The guy that is playing Myers is the same guy that played someone called Sabretooth in the X-Men. Im not too hot on knowldege about that film but he is apparently 6"10 and a pretty big guy. Not too keen on making Myers a Jason type of character but hey.
Dee Wallace from the Howling and E.T. sounds quite interesting though.
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