"Step away from the franchise slowly, Mr. Bay."
Disclaimer: This was run yesterday and after doing some research going to Brad Fuller’s Twitter, this does seem like legitimate news and not a joke. However, be wary.
The title says it all ladies and gents. Apparently Platinum Dunes is in talks right now to take over Halloween and put their signature stamp on this long running franchise. All thats left after this is for them to do a Hellraiser movie.
Ever since Rob Zombie’s Halloween II* came out in 2009, there’s been talk of a third film in 3D made by the excellent film duo of Patrick Lussier and Todd Farmer. It seems that has now fallen to the way side, and now we may be graced with the presence of a Platinum Dunes infused Halloween film. It will probably not be directed by Michael Bay, but I could just imagine how that would be……..
No word yet on if this will be a continuation of Rob Zombie’s films like the Lussier/Farmer one was going to be, a continuation of the “Let’s ignore everything after Part II” set of films, a continuation of the mess that is The Curse Of Michael Myers, or *shudder* yet another reboot/remake.
Personally I want them to just remake Halloween III or give us a follow up to that. I want to see the continuing adventures of Dr. Daniel Challis in a post apocalyptic world.
So let’s all ponder in the comments section or the thread on the message board on just how much Platinum Dunes is either going to make this interesting** or fuck it up.
* The remake of Halloween is one of the few films I ABSOLUTELY HATE. It’s such a stupid film that tries to do it’s own thing in the first half, and then compress the entire Carpenter film into 45 minutes or so. I don’t know what Zombie saw in Scout Taylor Compton, but she’s the worst thing about both films. The sequel however, is much better. Zombie just full on does his own thing with the property and created a film that I had a good time with. The theatrical cut is better than the director’s cut. Scout Taylor Compton is the only thing that drags this film down.
**I actually have enjoyed the Platinum Dunes remakes to various degrees, but I wouldn’t call any of them, save for the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake, and the Friday The 13th one actual good movies. The Amityville Horror gets points for keeping the Priest subdued, and not having Philip Baker Hall overact like he’s in a completely different movie like Rod Steiger did in the original. Their “original” films The Unborn and Horsemen were pretty crappy, and The Unborn was flat out boring.
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Ol’ Egg Shen needs to step in right about now, and offer the same advice for Michael Myers as he did for Jack Burton: “You leave him alone!”
RZ may have done his own thing on II, but that didn’t make it any less awful. Just different reasons for its awfulness.
I will say this as somebody who thinks the original Halloween is a true masterpiece and probably the greatest horror film ever made……who gives a shit. Are you forgetting that somebody named “Busta Rhymes” got into a fist fight with Michael Myers towards the end of one of the recent sequels? I mean c’mon, is there anything left to tarnish?
I actually like the first 45 minutes of Zombie’s remake – he seemed interested in making something other than just another cookie cutter slasher film. You actually got the sense that he cared about the story of Michael as a kid. Then, as soon as Michael grows up, he feels obligated to try and replicate every scene from the original film and the whole thing falls apart spectacularly.
As somebody who is ashamed to admit they’ve seen every sequel (including mind you, the H6 Producer’s Cut) once you take II and IV out of the equation, the rest of the sequels were god-awful (I guess H20 can have a pass due to Curtis coming back. But all in all that film has always felt like a missed opportunity). The one thing that Zombie was able to accomplish was to being moments of genuine menace to Myers – now that in and of itself may be a failing since Myers is far more chilling as a casual, robotic killer, but Zombie’s take was far better than part V and VI where they created some ridiculous druidic mythology.
So in closing, let Platinum Dunes take a run at it (as you note both Texas Chainsaw and Friday the 13th were decent) – at this point the Halloween series is more like a continuous multi-decade car accident, you try not to look, but curiosity gets the best of you. And, every piece of crap that comes out just helps to illustrate s how mazing Carpenter’s original film truly is.
The descent of young Michael into madness in RZ’s first Halloween was fucking chilling. Loomis trying to get through to him, his increased need to hide behind a mask, all that shit was cool.
I would like to start off by saying Rob Zombies Halloween was f****ing awesome!!!! I am a HUGE Halloween fan.I have every freaking vhs, dvd ,and blu ray they have ever made from the entire Halloween collection.I love who Rob picked to be Michael.Rob Zombie made Michael Myers scary again.As a kid the old movies scared the crap out of me .It makes since for Michael to be unstoppable ,now that he is huge,tall strong.Before in the old films it was a little strange that Michael was just a regular man with this killer strength.To see Tyler Mane in the costume was insane! He was awesome in the first halloween remake.As of Halloween 2,it started off really amazing and just fell apart toward the end.I still like them both but the second one could have been better.As for the idiot who wrote the article that Scout Taylor Compton sucks,you can really just go to hell.She did an amazing job with Laurie Strode.All the main characters in the previous Halloweens sucked! Jamie Lee Curtis ,Danielle Harris and Scout Taylor Compton are the best thing that ever happened to this series when it comes to the females who have starred in Halloween.I hope that Scout Taylor does return for H3 and that Platinum Dunes blows this movie out of the water.The series really needs it.And as long as they do a great job,like they did on Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Friday the 13th and dont change the characters and actors , I dont feel like there is much to worry about.It will be a hit.Nightmare on Elm st however did suck bad.The worst remake ever made!!!!
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