Halloween’sTVShow Will Have Its Own Canon to Kill In

A full twelvemonth afterHalloween Endshad amount out and bring the reboot trilogy to a close , Miramax snagged theTV rightsfor the iconic slasher enfranchisement . You would n’t call up this serial publication would ever leave behind the television space , but that ’s apparently what it ’s doing , and it ’ll have its own blank space whereMichael Myerscan do his thing . ( Murder . That thing is plenty of murders . )

Talking toDeadlinea few days ago , Miramax ’s worldwide TV head Marc Helwig touch on the show to - be . He had no problem allege the show will use the original 1978 Halloween as a derail off point . Without getting too into specifics , he hint it may explore characters “ that we have n’t really focused on that much in recent film versions or even in a number of them . It ’s a originative reset completely and going back to the original film , as oppose to spinning out of any of the more recent moving-picture show adaptations . ”

Each newHalloweensub - franchise has opted to start from one of the early movie and chip at out its own canon from there . The reboot flicks from David Gordon Green claim place after the first and took potshot at that film ’s sequel , like Halloween 2 revealing Michael and Laurie Strode were long - mislay siblings . Conversely , Rob Zombie’s2007 movie was a remake / reimagining of the original , while its sequel ended on the musical theme of Laurie possibly taking over as the new Michael .

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Speaking about the show more generally , Helwig call getting this off the ground a “ braggy priority . ” ( One conceive of part of that dissipated trailing can be owed to the television success of fellow slasher Chucky , whose show is on its third season . ) Optimistically , he said the creative squad should be settle “ very soon . ” The ultimate aim is for Halloween to live on through TV and film as some larger universe . Whether audiences go for that , or if the franchise even has enough throttle in the tank for that to be viable , continue to be seen .

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