Rob Zombie is a fading memory, and it appears that his particularly vicious, even by slasher movie standards, version of the "Halloween" franchise is as well. Regardless, the corpse of Michael Meyers is being resurrected once again for another "Halloween" installment, this time with some of the minds behind the "Saw" flicks shaping his destiny.
According to an article at The Hollywood Reporter, Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan are writing whatever this new "Halloween" movie will be, with Malek Akkad and Matt Stein producing. There's no director yet. So this isn't Zombie's "Halloween 3" so...what the heck is it?
Whatever it is, Melton and Dunstan will be well-suited for the scripting duties. The pair wrote four of the seven "Saw" films (numbers IV to VII), "Piranha 3DD" as well as an adaptation of "The Outer Limits," which is in development at MGM. They also worked on an adaptation of the video game "God of War" for Universal and, most recently, wrote "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark," which was vended as a pitch to CBS Films.
Beyond that, this new "Halloween" is being described as a "recalibration." I guess the word "reboot" is now as toxic as "remake" once was. I suppose that Michael Meyers is iconic enough, and the general "Halloween" vibe and story are universal enough, that a new movie can pretty much just tell its story without being beholden to what came previously. I mean, are people really going to lose their minds about continuity issues in a "recalibrated" "Halloween" flick?
Yeah, they probably will. So it goes.
