Shock Till You Drop recently covered a press conference with current Halloween series producer Malek Akkad following a small screening of the John Carpenter-directed original, and the filmmaker provided an update on the next Halloween sequel, saying that a script is currently in the works and that the project is in motion. Said Akhad,
As you can imagine, one of the biggest hanging questions is exactly what direction this new movie will go in. Will it follow the Rob Zombie-created continuity, or will it be its own thing? Hell, let's not forget that this was the franchise that brought us Halloween III: Season of the Witch - a film that didn't feature Michael Myers and was instead about deadly costume masks intended to kill trick 'r treaters. Maybe this new sequel will follow in that tradition.
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