If there ’s one complaint about the late Halloween motion picture ( though , realistically , there are several ) , it ’s how all-fired indestructible Michael Myers became . The cloaked killer hightail it end so many times , he basically turned into a idol . Well , writer Danny McBride has foretell this wo n’t be the case in his planned Halloween reboot .
In an consultation on the EMPIRE podcast , McBride revealed that he and co - writer / manager David Gordon Green plan on untie most of Michael Myers ’ supernatural tendency that were established in former cinema and book . Instead of making the guy a mythic figure “ of superhuman strength who can not be killed by bullet train , shot wounds , or ardor , ” as Nicholas Rogers described him in his 2003 book Halloween : From Pagan Ritual to Party Night , McBride think it ’s scarier to have him be some eldritch dude who likes to dispatch masses .
I call up we ’re just try out to divest it down and just take it back to what was so good about the original . It was just very simple and just achieved that level of horror that was n’t corny . And it was n’t turn Michael Myers into some supernatural being that could n’t be killed — that poppycock to me is n’t scary . I desire to be scared by something that I really recollect could materialize . I think it ’s much more horrifying to be scared by someone standing in the shadows while you ’re read the applesauce out as fight back to someone who ca n’t be killed pursuing you .
During the audience , McBride mention how they desire to land the character reference back to John Carpenter ’s original visual modality , having it take spot around and after his first two films . But to be honest , I ’m not certain precisely what the agency . In his 1978 debut , Michael Myers is stabbed through the neck with a knit needle and shot several times , and the second one cease with him getting blown up . Since the movie takes place after the first two , this imply all those near - death experience would still be canon . Carpenter himself has call in Michael Myers “ almost a supernatural forcefulness . ” So , would n’t that intend the persona , at his core , is supernatural ?
It also becomes unearthly when you look at the 1979 novelisation of the first film , where the prologue detailed this ancient Celtic man named Enda who murder the Druid princess Deirdre and her lover for retaliation , and got cursed by a shaman to relive his crime for eternity . Both Michael Myers , and his homicidal nifty - granddaddy , have nightmares about Enda and Deirdre . If that does n’t seem preternaturally inspire , I do n’t know what does .
I ’m guessing what will happen is the picture show will be taking aside the Curse of Thorn and other too supernatural element that were established in later moving picture , but leave ambiguity over Michael Myers ’ strength and vulnerability . After all , if Michael Myers is only a veritable guy , there ’s no way he ’d survive a elephantine fervour . Carpenter will serve as an executive producer for the film , and maybe leave the score . The Halloween reboot is set to arrive out October 19 , 2018 .
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