Halloween 9 was planned, but eventually canceled. A direct follow-up to Halloween: Resurrection didn’t happen, but not because of box office or lack of fan interest.
The success of Halloween: H20 (1998) created talk of a sequel – even though the film was supposed to have wrapped up the saga. However, fans were unaware of the last-minute problems that almost cancelled the anniversary follow-up altogether. Returning actress Jamie Lee Curtis agreed to do the film, with the understanding that her character would ultimately kill series boogeyman Michael Myers. A closer look at the contract, in which series founder Moustapha Akkad had helped craft, revealed that the Myers character could not be killed. Curtis almost pulled out of the film until writer Kevin Williamson came to the rescue.
Williamson was one of the key creatives in getting H20 into production – and wrote the first detailed treatment. He was able to come up with a compromise that pleased both Curtis and Akkad. This story idea, in which Curtis’ character unknowingly kills a paramedic instead of Myers, was used for the premise of Halloween: Resurrection. While both Curtis and fans of H20 were disappointed by the trajectory of the storyline, the film managed to make a decent amount of money in the summer of 2002. True to form, the ending of the eighth installment teased at a sequel. But a follow-up to the internet-influenced Myers storyline was not meant to be.
There were several potential plot ideas leaked to the press regarding a Halloween 9. Akkad himself trumpeted the production at a film convention, even awarding a cameo role to a contest winner. However, tragedy struck when Akkad and his daughter were killed in a bombing while visiting Amman, Jordan in 2005. His death postponed the project, which was eventually shelved altogether. Akkad’s son Malek decided instead to reboot the franchise, hiring Rob Zombie to write and direct a remake of John Carpenter’s classic film. The remake, released in 2007, proved to be a big hit – erasing any talk of a follow-up to Halloween: Resurrection.
A direct sequel to Zombie’s remake followed in 2009, but was not a commercial success – which put the franchise into limbo. It wasn’t until producer Jason Blum decided to move forward with another film in 2016 that Myers was given an eleventh life. Blum's idea was to make a direct sequel to the original film, bypassing all of the follow-ups - including Resurrection. Simply titled Halloween, the 2018 release went on to break box office records – and please both fans and critics alike. Two more sequels to the Blumhouse film have been announced including Halloween Kills, which is scheduled for release October 2020.
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