In the wake of the success of Blumhouse’s revival of the “Halloween” franchise in 2018, two follow-ups were announced – “Halloween Kills” for 2020 and “Halloween Ends” for 2021.
With a trilogy planned and a third film all set to happen, it is understandable to think that the filmmakers might end the second film on a cliffhanger, or essentially make both films as one giant story split in half across two movies.
Speaking with io9 this week, producer Jason Blum says he and director David Gordon Green wanted to make sure ‘Kills’ stood on its own and wouldn’t feel like ‘the middle part of a large story’ and draws a comparison to Peter Jackson’s “The Two Towers”:
“I worried about it until I saw [the second one]. And David [Gordon Green] worried about it. That it would feel like, remember ‘Lord of the Rings?’ Like you weren’t getting [the full story]? It doesn’t feel like that at all. [It] feels like a complete movie. There’s a first, second, and third act. It has a big end. You still know from the end of the second movie where the third movie is going, but the second movie ends in a totally satisfying way. So it doesn’t feel like, you know, that ‘Lord of the Rings’ issue that they had.”
Blum says that ‘Kills’ is finished and production is getting underway on ‘Ends’. “Halloween Kills” opens October 16th whilst “Halloween Ends” will debut October 15th 2021.
