10 Alternative Opening Movie Scenes You Never Saw
8. Michael Kills Loomis - Halloween (2018)
2018's Halloween sequel kicks off with a memorable sequence where two podcasters, Aaron Korey (Jefferson Hall) and Dana Haines (Rhian Rees), visit Michael Myers at Smith's Grove Psychiatric Hospital and show him his iconic mask, to which Michael doesn't react.
But director and co-writer David Gordon Green confirmed that he initially had plans for another opening scene which would reimagine the end of John Carpenter's 1978 original.
Controversially, Green's new version would conclude with the death of Dr. Loomis at Myers' hand after Laurie (Jamie Lee Curtis) hesitates to shoot Michael at a pivotal moment. The film's co-producer Ryan Turek elaborated:
"David wanted to f**k things up, man. He wanted to just mix things up a little bit. So, initially, he had a scene in which we came in at the end of Halloween, and Loomis sees the screaming kids, comes inside, sees the struggle between Laurie and Michael. Michael puts his mask back on, Loomis shoots him, pushes Michael back through the doorway into the bedroom. Laurie is cowering on the ground, Loomis charges into the bedroom, where Michael gets the upper hand and jumps him.
Loomis drops the gun and then Laurie is holding onto the gun, but she's shaking so much she can't actually pull the trigger. And then Michael chokes out Loomis, kills him, and then Laurie decides to pull the trigger and knock Michael back. So, we had that, and then…we were trying to figure out how to pull that off…and it was just crazy, you know…And I remember John [Carpenter] read that draft and he was like, 'Uhhh, why would you want to change that? Why would you want to change my ending?' And David took that to heart."
Given how adversely fans responded to John Connor being suddenly killed off in Terminator: Dark Fate, it was probably for the best that Halloween 2018 left one of the horror genre's most beloved heroes in tact.