10 Actors Who Knew Their Action Movie Was Doomed From Day One

Jamie Lee Curtis stepped out the shadows of her movie star parents when she starred in John Carpenter’s seminal slasher Halloween (1978). Curtis returned for the sequel in 1980 before eventually leaving the horror genre behind and forging a highly successful mainstream career in movies such as A Fish Called Wanda (1988) and James Cameron’s True Lies (1994).

However, she was persuaded to return to her role as Laurie Strode for the rebooted Halloween H20 (1998), assuming that it would be a final climax to the series which would end after she decapitated horror icon Michael Myers at the end of the film. Far from that, the success of the movie would see the studio making other plans and Jamie Lee soon realised that H20 was just to be another film in an endless franchise. A far-fetched script was put together to explain how Myers had escaped and that it was actually an innocent man who was beheaded in the H20 finale.

Curtis agreed to come back for Halloween: Resurrection (2002), but insisted that she was paid “a lot of money” and that Laurie would be killed off in the opening sequence to give the fans closure on the character’s storyline. The studio obliged and delivered a movie which did just that, before moving on to a completely separate story baring no relevance to the Laurie Strode scenes, making everyone wonder why they had even bothered to include the character in the first place.