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If you thought Michael Shannon's cameo in The Flash screamed "paycheck!," it's got nothing on Jamie Lee Curtis coming back for the first 10 minutes of Halloween: Resurrection.

The previous film, Halloween H20, ended with Curtis' heroine Laurie Strode unambiguously decapitating Michael Myers (Chris Durand) with an axe, fulfilling Curtis' desire to finally give the series a concrete ending.

However, Halloween producer Moustapha Akkad had a contractual stipulation which prevented the filmmakers from definitively killing Michael off, in order to facilitate the creation of future sequels.

And so, Curtis was forced to reluctantly accept that Resurrection would instead retcon H20's ending by revealing that Laurie actually decapitated a helpless paramedic who Michael swapped clothes with.

At a New York Comic Con appearance last year, Curtis revealed she wasn't thrilled about having to come back, and so ensured she was extremely well compensated for jerking fans around:

"I said to them, 'Okay, if you're gonna do [the retcon], and it looks like Laurie Strode has ended it, my audience is going to be feeling like it's ended. But you have to pay me a lot of money in the next movie, and you have to kill me in the first 10 minutes of the movie because I've now killed an innocent man. And I can't live with that.'"

It's certainly easy to see where Curtis is coming from, and in the very least she received a fat payout for what must've been just a few days of work on her widely-loathed Resurrection cameo.

Plus, Curtis finally got to draw a line under all the terrible Halloween movies with 2018's direct sequel to the 1978 original.