{"id":99217,"date":"2017-09-18T17:41:21","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T16:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=99217"},"modified":"2017-09-18T17:42:35","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T16:42:35","slug":"jamie-lee-curtis-will-be-in-the-new-halloween-what-does-this-mean-for-the-timeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/jamie-lee-curtis-will-be-in-the-new-halloween-what-does-this-mean-for-the-timeline\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamie Lee Curtis will star in the new Halloween, what does this mean for the timeline?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was announced over the weekend that the new <strong><em>Halloween<\/em><\/strong> movie, which is coming from writer-director David Gordon Green (<strong><em>All The Real Girls<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>Pineapple Express<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>Joe<\/em><\/strong>) and co-writer Danny McBride, will star Jamie Lee Curtis, who will return in her iconic role as Laurie Strode.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;Same porch. Same clothes. Same issues. 40 years later. Headed back to Haddonfield one last time for Halloween. Release date 10\/19\/18.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IvptiZctyw\">pic.twitter.com\/IvptiZctyw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jamie Lee Curtis (@jamieleecurtis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jamieleecurtis\/status\/908760232016322560\">September 15, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Prolific producer Jason Blum (<strong><em>Get Out<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>Split<\/em><\/strong>, the <strong><em>Insidious<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>Purge<\/em><\/strong> franchises) also <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jason_blum\/status\/908760715510505472\">tweeted<\/a> the pic, and said &#8220;SHE&#8217;S BACK! See you guys October 19th, 2018. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So, this is very exciting. We knew that John Carpenter was on board in a producing capacity and would possibly\/hopefully\/&#8221;please do, John&#8221; be providing the\u00a0score, but Curtis&#8217; involvement was something of a bombshell.<\/p>\n<p>Not least because, and spoilers for anyone who hasn&#8217;t seen the terrible 2002 film <strong><em>Halloween: Resurrection<\/em><\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/halloween_resurrection_feat.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-99218\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/halloween_resurrection_feat-616x347.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"616\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/halloween_resurrection_feat-616x347.jpg 616w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/halloween_resurrection_feat-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/halloween_resurrection_feat-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/halloween_resurrection_feat-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/halloween_resurrection_feat-510x286.jpg 510w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/halloween_resurrection_feat.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Laurie was finally killed off in that film. In fact, that prologue sequence really is the only reason to watch <strong><em>Halloween: Resurrection<\/em><\/strong>, unless you&#8217;re a dedicated completist or somehow unable to resist the siren call of Busta Rhymes kicking Michael Myers in the chest.<\/p>\n<p>So what does this mean for this new Halloween? Danny McBride has already spoken about the fact that he and Green plan on returning to a more &#8220;grounded&#8221; version of the story, telling <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.businessinsider.com\/danny-mcbride-halloween-reboot-interview-2017-5\">Business Insider<\/a> that &#8220;This is definitely a continuation [of <strong><em>Halloween<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>Halloween II<\/em><\/strong>] and a little bit of a reinvention&#8230;But we&#8217;re really trying to take it back to what John Carpenter originally started with and what was so horrifying about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He also stated in the interview that they&#8217;re moving away from the supernatural element that was introduced later on, when &#8220;He became this superhuman \u2014 nothing could really kill him. That doesn&#8217;t make him scary anymore.&#8221; It&#8217;s a fair criticism, as the latter sequels&#8217; cult plotline wasn&#8217;t ever particularly convincing or compelling, even when Donald Pleasence was giving it his all.<\/p>\n<p>But does &#8220;later sequels&#8221; also include <strong><em>Halloween H20<\/em><\/strong>? The 1998 film\u00a0brought Laurie back into the franchise along with her son John (Josh Hartnett), and while it\u00a0certainly doesn&#8217;t measure up to Carpenter&#8217;s original, it&#8217;s a worthy follow-up that benefited greatly from exploring where the character had ended up (a teacher at a posh boarding school with a drinking problem and a new name), and from an excellent performance from Curtis. While we&#8217;re not necessarily opposed to pretending that <strong><em>Resurrection<\/em><\/strong> never happened, and we get that Josh Hartnett might not be up for popping in for a quick &#8220;Uncle Michael?&#8221; cameo, it\u00a0would be a shame if this new film wrote <strong><em>H20<\/em><\/strong> out of continuity completely.<\/p>\n<p>Still, this is absolutely thrilling news. We can&#8217;t wait to see what this creative team has in store for us next Halloween, and to see Laurie and her brother go head-to-head one last time&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The untitled Halloween film will be released on 19 October 2018. Keep up with the latest genre news with the new issue of SciFiNow.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re thrilled that Laurie Strode is back for Halloween&#8230;but where does that place it in the series?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":99219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[165,797],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/DJyQa49XUAMRaei.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}