David Gordon Green (L);Halloween Ends(2022).Photo: Jon Kopaloff/Getty; Universal Pictures
The director ofHalloween Endsis defending his decision to go in a different direction.
“It’s funny, when someone says, ‘Build your dream house on this real estate using this title and these characters,’ everybody is going to find a different little thing that’s meaningful for them and they’ll make it their own. That’s what I did,” said Green, 47.
“For every bite of backlash, you also get people that are thanking you for taking it to a new place and keeping it alive and full of love,” Green told Moviemaker.com.
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Halloween Ends(2022).Ryan Green/Universal Pictures
Halloween Endsfollows 2018’sHalloween(the direct sequel toJohn Carpenter’s 1978 horror classic) and 2021’sHalloween Kills.
In the final film in the threequel, murderous maniac Michael Myers makes his way back to suburban Haddonfield, Illinois, once more to cause havoc in the town after he “disappeared without a trace” in the wake of the events that unfolded four years prior.
Final girl Laurie Strode (Curtis, 63) musters up the courage to go face-to-face — well, face-to-mask — with Michael one last time in an attempt to confront the embodiment of evil once and for all. But the road to their meeting isn’t quite what one might expect.
“We had to decide how wewanted to wrap up these characters,” Green told Moviemaker.com. “How do we want to make it not just a nice, neat bow on a franchise?”
“Honestly, we never once considered making a Laurie and Michael movie,” he added with a laugh. “The concept that it should be a final showdown-type brawl never even crossed our minds.”
“When David offered me the role he was like, ‘I need you to know that a lot of people are going to really, really, reallynot be happy with what we’re choosing to dohere. You’ll probably hear a lot of that,’ " Campbell, 25, recently toldVariety.“Jamie reached out and said the same thing.”
He went on to say that he thinksHalloween Ends"feels like the most David Gordon Green movie ever made,” adding, “When you sit with certain audiences, they either get it right away or they’re halfway through the movie and you can audibly hear them being like, ‘What is the tone of this?’ and not giving themselves permission to dive into the humor or bizarreness.”
Halloween Endsis in theaters and streaming on Peacock now.
source: people.com
