John Carpenter Wants to Score the Next Halloween Sequel

Legendary film producer and composer John Carpenter want to write the score for Blumhouse Productions ' planned sequel to his Hellenic 1978 horror movieHalloween . The ever - irregular David Gordon Green has been named to drop a line and direct thesequel - not - reboot , which is tentatively set to arrive in 2018 . The movie , fit in to co - author Danny McBride , willfollow from the events ofHalloween II , ignoring all subsequent Halloween series films .

Carpenter ’s originalHalloweenwas a groundbreaking motion-picture show in 1978 , practically single - handedly writing the rules for all slasher movies to come . Made for just $ 300,000 , the film has gone on to gross $ 70 million , making it one of the most profitable independent films of all - time . Among the movie ’s innovative factor was Carpenter ’s synthesist - heavy score , composed in just two weeks of late in the picture show ’s production . TheHalloweentheme song would become one of the most recognizable pieces of movie music ever and Carpenter would go on to personally score most all of his subsequent photographic film .

Green , speaking toBusiness Insiderentertainment reporterJason Guerrasioat the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival , says Carpenter wants to remain convoluted in the franchise he launched by compose the score for the young movie . Green also says that Carpenter has register the moving picture ’s script , has given distinction on it and " digs it . "

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Carpenter giving his endorsement of Green and McBride ’s script is fairly of a big deal , as Carpenter is known to be an out - spoken person when it comes to films inspired by his original material , and is not afraid to give a negatively charged assessment if that ’s how he really feels . Carpenter did not have nice thing to say about Rob Zombie ’s 2007Halloweenremake , bashing Zombie for straying too far from the original conception of the killer whale Michael Myers and destroy the character ’s mystique by over - excuse his ancestry .

The newHalloweenis look to stay on away from provide a lot of background knowledge on Michael Myers , rather going back to the original movie ’s glide path to the character . McBride say his and Green’sMichael Myers wo n’t be supernaturalor invincible but will reflect Carpenter ’s vision of the reference , which was unsubdivided and elemental and therefore arguably a lot more terrifying . McBride and Green have spoken gushingly of Carpenter ’s films , which possibly explains why Carpenter is so positively disposed toward their continuation that he ’s even willing to break off in by writing the medicine .

By the sound of thing , the author - director squad forHalloweenis headed in a positive way if their purpose is to genuinely retake the strip - down , unrelenting scariness of the original flick . have John Carpenter ’s music underline the minutes , lending it that very particular Carpenterian good sense of slow , brooding tension , should only avail the movie in delivering on its classic - horror promise .