Danny McBride, who acted as a writer on 2018's Halloween, says that 2021's Halloween Ends likely won't end the franchise. The latest release in the Halloween franchise saw the return of Jamie Lee Curtis reprising her role as Laurie Strode. Michael Myers escapes imprisonment after 40 years of being locked in a sanatorium, Laurie is forced to fight back and tries to kill Michael Myers once and for all. Of course, with two newly revealed sequels in the works, she obviously isn't successful.
As of right now, no details about how the two upcoming films continue the plot have been revealed. After the audience thinks Michael Myers is dead in the first film, the end credits roll and you can hear someone breathing through a mask, implying that he survived. Halloween completely ignores the confusing lore and films that followed the original and acts as a direct sequel to John Carpenter's 1978 classic. The film was well-received and achieved notable financial success when it released.
In an interview with Collider, McBride goes on to say that Michael Myers is an icon and can be interpreted and adapted by multiple actors, writers, and directors. McBride is positive that others will want to tell new stories with Michael Myers. At the end of the day though, McBride said Carpenter ultimately has the final say over who uses the character.
“I think, ultimately, Michael Myers is such an iconic character that no one besides Carpenter is ever gonna have ownership over him. This will be our chance at the table to play with these characters, and I’m sure that, when we’re done, other people will come in and do the same thing, or have their own reinvention. Michael Myers is iconic enough to allow that, too. He’s like James Bond, where you can have different actors and different filmmakers. He represents something so simple and scary that he can be translated by lots of different people.”
The interview also included director and co-writer David Gordon Green who said that Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends will be a continuation and end to the story and world that they established in 2018's film. Meaning that this new timeline will be a total of four films. Green said that there were always plans to do more films but they needed to see if the first one would land with audiences. Obviously, it did.
While the Halloween series had a somewhat commendable sequel in 1981's Halloween II, the eight films that would follow didn't do the horror icon justice. Oftentimes they didn't even make much sense at all. Jamie Lee Curtis carried 2018's film with her excellent performance as Laurie Strode. Giving the character a more realistic relationship with the masked murderer that added a lot of nostalgic weight to the film. It was refreshing to see her shine on-screen after being handed such poor writing in Halloween H20 and Halloween: Resurrection. With McBride, Green, and Curtis working together once again fans should definitely be excited to see what's next in this new storyline.
Source: Collider