Halloween: 8 Things We Need In The Next Film

8. The Same Writing Team

When you stop to think about it, it's kind of a miracle that Halloween 2018 even exists, never mind the fact it's a genuinely great film.

Since the last Halloween film was released in theatres, there had been so many false starts that it seemed as if the franchise would never get out of development hell. Whether it be the ill-fated Halloween 3D - a direct sequel to Rob Zombie's films - or the quickly cut Halloween Returns script which was penned by genre veterans Patrick Lussier and Marcus Dunstan, the franchise just couldn't find a solid direction to go in.

Even once the rights to the franchise had reverted back to Miramax from Dimension, Miramax and Blumhouse heard dozens of pitches without being able to settle on one. That is, until the writing team of Jeff Fradley, Danny McBride, and David Gordon Green came in and pitched their take on the franchise.

The producers all fell in love with their script and it's easy to see why. Allegedly, those studios have already been meeting with potential other writers for a sequel and that's the exact wrong way to go about this, because they should be retaining the original triumvirate of Fradley, McBride and Green. This trio of writers engineered a script that was incredibly well-refined, clever, and ultimately saved the franchise from extinction.

Considering that McBride openly admitted that this team initially wanted to shoot two films back-to-back, they're definitely prepared for it.