Director David Gordon Green's Halloween is a major success, scoring a massive $77.5 million opening weekend at the box office, so Halloween 2 already seems inevitable. The latest reboot of the franchise does away with the messy continuity of the many sequels to John Carpenter's original, establishing yet another new timeline where Michael Myers (James Jude Courtney) has been incarcerated ever since his 1978 rampage. 40 years later, he breaks out while being transported from one facility to another, and faces off against three generations of Strode women: Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis), her daughter Karen (Judy Greer), and Karen's daughter Allyson (Andi Matichak).
There have actually already been two movies called Halloween 2. There's Rick Rosenthal's Halloween II (1981), which begins immediately after the events of the first movie, with Laurie being taken to the hospital after her ordeal and Michael Myers still on a killing spree. Then there's Rob Zombie's Halloween 2 (2009), which continues the director's reboot of the franchise and stars Scout Taylor-Compton as Laurie Strode.
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Still, you can never have too many Halloweens, so we may as well embrace the idea of yet another Halloween 2. Here's what we know about the sequel so far.
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Halloween 2 Is In The Works
Naturally, Universal Pictures didn't start up the Halloween franchise again with just a one-off movie in mind. Earlier this month it was reported that a sequel is already in development, but that Green and his co-screenwriter Danny McBride are unlikely to return. An unknown writer is said to already be working on the script. Blumhouse Productions, the horror studio that co-produced Halloween, has a strong track record when it comes to building horror franchises, which so far include Insidious, The Purge, Sinister, and the odd M. Night-Shyamalan shared universe of Split and its upcoming sequel Glass. So, it's safe to say that the Halloween movies are in good hands.
Halloween 2 Would Likely Release In 2020
Bloody Disgusting, who broke the news of a sequel being in development, speculated that Halloween 2 could arrive in theaters as early as October 2019. However, in the interests of not rushing the series (and ending up having to reboot it again), we would guess that an October 2020 release date is more likely. After all, the sequel hasn't even been confirmed yet and doesn't have a director attached, let alone a fixed filming start date. A two-year gap between movies also fits more with Blumhouse's usual MO.
Halloween 2 Would (Probably) Bring Back Michael Myers
Let's face it: if getting his head chopped off at the end of Halloween H20 didn't stop Michael from getting another sequel, a silly little fire probably won't even slow him down. Indeed, Halloween ends with an after-credits tease of Myers breathing, just in case anyone was sincerely worried about his health after Laurie trapped him in the panic room. While Michael certainly cut down Allyson's friendship circle considerably, and also murdered Karen's husband, the three Strode women all survived to the end credits - leaving things open for yet another showdown in the sequel.
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Halloween 2 Should Focus On Allyson Strode
Halloween demonstrated just how much Laurie Strode had managed to prepare for Michael Myers' return over the course of four decades: becoming ruthlessly efficient with firearms and kitting out her entire house for guerrilla warfare. In the triumphant reveal at the end of the movie, it turns out that Laurie's "panic room" is actually a trap for Michael, fitted with booby traps so that she could set it ablaze once she had him locked inside. Similarly we got to see Karen's childhood training put to good use as she feigned weakness in order to lure Michael closer, and then shot him.
By contrast, Allyson was not raised to be a badass serial-killer-killing-machine, but that's precisely why it would probably be best for Halloween 2 to focus on the youngest and greenest member of the Strode line. That's not to say that Laurie and Karen shouldn't be in the sequel, but rather that it would be cool to see Allyson fend off the killer herself, rather than simply running away. We could get a cool training montage, with Laurie teaching her granddaughter how to shoot and fight and think on her feet, so that she's prepared for Michael's return. It would also be interesting to see Allyson dealing with the fallout from the events of Halloween (her father was killed, after all).
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Another possibility is expanding on the idea of the Strode women hunting Michael down, rather than simply waiting for him to come to them and defending themselves. We saw a little bit of this in Halloween, with Laurie searching for Michael in Haddonfield and trying to stop his latest rampage. However, a sequel could see all three Strode women tooling up for an all-out war on Michael Myers.
What Do We Call Halloween 2?
As mentioned before, titles are not exactly one of the Halloween franchise's strengths. Halloween III: Season of the Witch had absolutely nothing to do with Michael Myers and was instead about a novelty company that made evil Halloween masks (and also androids). Halloween H20: 20 Years Later ranks as one of the most bizarre and terrible movie titles of all time - especially since in the trailers it was pronounced "Halloween Aitch-Two-Oh," indicating that the movie was for some reason named after the chemical composition of water.
Since David Gordon Green's film is a sequel to the original Halloween, technically it should have also been called Halloween 2 and the upcoming sequel should be Halloween 3. However, in the interests of not confusing people even further (the latest movie is already being referred to as "Halloween 2018" in order to distinguish it from the last two movies called Halloween), it would probably be best for the studio to go with a subtitle rather than a number. The Return of Michael Myers, The Revenge of Michael Myers and The Curse of Michael Myers are already taken, but it shouldn't be too hard to come up with another one.
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Did Halloween leave you wanting to see more of Michael Myers and the Strode family? Let us know if you're looking forward to another sequel, or if you think Michael should be laid to rest, in the comments.
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