Halloween 2018: Everything We Know So Far

10. David Gordon Green And Danny McBride Are At The Helm

While the Halloween series was in the wilderness following Rob Zombie's botched attempt at a sequel, fans began to ask which horror maestro would be tasked with reviving Michael Myers and repairing his tarnished reputation.

The answer, surprisingly, is none of them. Comedy duo David Gordon Green and Danny McBride will serve as the movie's unlikely creative team, with the former set to direct based on a screenplay they co-wrote.

It's been a fish-out-of-water year for McBride, who is best known as the star of films like Pineapple Express and Your Highness, both of which were helmed by Green. In addition to working on the Halloween script, he dipped his toes into science fiction-horror waters by starring in Alien: Covenant.

Despite the actor's recent dabbling in the genre, the pair sound like the wrong fit for Halloween on paper, but McBride has assured fans they're up for the task, and insisted that horror and comedy have common threads running through them.

He told Business Insider...

"Whether it's to make [the audience] laugh or make them scream and s**t their pants, it's all in the engineering of the pace."

The Halloween franchise has certainly made the audience do both of those things over the years.