10 Status Updates On Famous Horror Franchises
1. Halloween
Last Entry: Halloween II (2009)
Unlike Friday the 13th and Elm Street fans, fans of the long-running Halloween franchise got some pretty good news earlier this year when it was announced that Michael Myers is coming back. Since Rob Zombie's spin on the series ended in 2009, there have been talks about a direct sequel to his works, another reboot, and even continuations of the original run of films, but now we know what form the new film will be taking.
Along with the return of John Carpenter and Jamie Lee Curtis to the franchise, director David Gordon Green is teaming up with Danny McBride - yes, that Danny McBride - to write the new film.
According to McBride it will focus "mainly in the first two movies and what that sets up and then where the story can go from there," ignoring the slew of sequels that followed 1981's Halloween II - including 2002's Resurrection, which saw the death of Curtis' Laurie Strode - and the mythology that they constructed without being another full reboot of the series.
Everyone involved has promised that they want to return Myers to his former glory and live up to his mantle of The Shape, which is an exciting prospect after the general negative reception of Rob Zombie's take on the franchise. Production is gearing up to begin in a matter of weeks, and for the first time in a long time, fans can rejoice that by this time next year, Michael Myers will be terrorizing Haddonfield once again.