On April 1st, there was a rumor (that turned out to be true, despite being posted on April Fool’s Day) that Platinum Dunes was vying for the rights to reboot the Halloween franchise yet again. Things went quiet, along with the fact that they didn’t get the rights after all. (Personally I’m still hoping for Todd Farmer and Patrick Lussier to get theirs off the ground)
Now, for those that don’t know, when a production company or a director go to a studio, they do a “pitch”, or they’re own take on how they would do the film. Some studios go with that vision (which most of the time gets changed anyway), or they turn them down. I’ve always been of the mind that they just go in there, and verbally say and maybe with some storyboards show what they would do with the property.
Well, Platinum Dunes went ahead and animated a whole sequence of how they would do it. You know what? It actually isn’t that bad. It even has some cool first person shots. I actually wouldn’t mind seeing their take up on the big screen, even though it probably would look like all the rest of their films. It shows they had big plans for it, and yeah, it would probably have been really slick, but coming from Rob Zombie “Hicking” up the franchise with both of his entries, slick wouldn’t be all that bad.
Check it out.
source: Bloody-Disgusting
3 comments
There just isn’t an angle to the material apparent in this pitch. Other than gimmicky POV shots. What’s different about their Michael that will make me care about the events? I couldn’t stand Rob Zombie’s film (didn’t see the 2nd one based on my dislike of the first), but Zombie’s had an interesting take in the beginning of his first film. Michael can’t help but kill. He gets no pleasure but is compelled to kill. I thought those early scenes with a young Michael were interesting. Then it just turned into the typical, slasher film. This looks like it would be the same, old thing just with “interesting” shots.
I hated Zombie’s Halloween remake, but I also really enjoyed his sequel for just being full on crazy with them letting him do whatever he wanted to do. Plus you get to see Duane Whitaker and Mark Boone Junior as brothers. Where else would you ever see that?
I’ve gotta admit, I did love the gradual build-up to Michael’s appearance. (SPOILERS) The vile sadism of having Michael force the policewoman to watch her brother die before offing her as well is also keeping in line with the original movie’s conception of Michael being, quite simply, pure evil in human shape – none of this “raised by a dysfunctional white trash family” claptrap.
Regardless, I’m not up for a THIRD movie trying to pass itself off as the one and only “Halloween”. Better something like “Halloween Reborn”, or hell, just “Michael.” (I seriously doubt even the dumbest film-goer would confuse it with the 1996 John Travolta chick flick.)
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