A new video featurette for Halloween Kills focuses on the "warrior" women of the franchise. Halloween Kills is the sequel to 2018's Halloween, which served as a direct follow-up to John Carpenter's original 1978 film and ignored the many sequels that followed the original. It allowed the new series of films to bypass the long, twisted and convoluted narrative that's been built over decades. What's more, it allowed the filmmakers to focus on Jamie Lee Curtis' Laurie Strode and her legacy with the masked killer, Michael Myers. The new films are part of a trilogy, which began with 2018's Halloween, continues with this month's Halloween Kills, and concludes with Halloween Ends in 2022.
Ignoring the long list of Halloween sequels and their events have given a new life to Laurie Strode, focusing not only on how she has survived these many years, but also looking at the legacy she's built, namely with her own family. Judy Greer plays Strode's daughter, while Andi Matichak plays her granddaughter, who stand as part of Strode's legacy, like it or not. Directed once again by David Gordon Green, the Blumhouse-produced horror film will follow the continued battle of Strode and her family to survive the relentless pursuit of The Shape, a murderous force of nature embodied in Michael Myers.
A new featurette from Universal was released today and focuses on the "warrior" women of the series, from Laurie to her offspring. "We fight! We always fight!" Strode says, before showing Greer's Karen and Matichak's Allyson pick up the torch of their maternal leader and carry out a mission to "end evil" after 40 years of haunting the town of Haddonfield. "These women are fighters," says writer Danny McBride in the video, and from the looks of it, they've got quite a fight in front of them. Take a look at the video below:
Halloween Kills takes place directly after the events of 2018's Halloween, literally picking up on the same night of that film. The sequel will feature a number of Easter Eggs, one of them being the return of Tommy Doyle, the boy Laurie Strode was babysitting in the original film, who is now grown up and being played by Anthony Michael Hall. The part was previously played by Brian Andrews in the 1978 film and later by Paul Rudd in 1995's Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers.
The decision to bypass the events of the many sequels in the Halloween series is essentially what's allowed this legacy of "warrior women" to exist in the revitalized franchise. In the previous Halloween timeline, specifically in 1998's Halloween: H20, Laurie Strode was a mostly well-adjusted professional with a son (as played by Josh Hartnett). The new familial set-up feels more in line with a legacy befitting of Strode's character, one in which she is deeply troubled and flawed, but still strong and protective, especially of her family. Fans will soon see how that plays out when Halloween Kills stalks into theaters on October 15.
Source: Universal
