Anew Halloween movieis finally in the works and it is going to arrive next year on June 05, 2025. Just in time for the the holiday.John Carpenter is producingwith David Gordon Green directing and co-writing the script with Danny McBride, the team behindPineapple Express. As it turns out, the project was very nearly directed by a filmmaker more experienced in making horror movies. Adam Wingard, the man behindThe Guestand theBlair Witchreboot, very nearly directed the upcomingHalloweenmovie.
Adam Wingard, who is currently promoting his movieDeath Note, which arrived on Netflix over the weekend, was speaking withThe Movie Crypt. During the course of the conversation, he revealed that he very nearly directed theHalloweenreboot, but it didn’t ultimately come to pass. Though, it very easily could have. Here’s what he had to say about it.
“You know, I almost actually did the Halloween movie that they’re doing. It almost happened, but the deal just kinda fell apart. When I found out those rights were available I was immediately trying to figure out how to get in on that. But ultimately what I realized was I kinda already made my Halloween movie withThe Guest. So it felt like it would be retreading on that kind of thing. In a way though, I still want to do a Halloween movie.”
Even though Adam Wingard says that the deal fell apart, it also sounds like he kind of took himself out of the running to a degree. Now it is in the hands ofDanny McBride and David Gordon Green, who have been saying all of the right things about theirHalloweenmovie, to revive Michael Myers on the big screen. John Carpenter praised the pitch that McBride and Green brought to the table, but the legendary horror filmmaker actually gave Wingard his blessing as well.
“I actually got an email, in confidence, where Carpenter was basically…He actually gave them the thumbs up for me. And I kinda walked away from it like, I just got everything I wanted out of this job, you know. Like I just want approval from dad. And I walked away like, ‘This is about as good as it gets.'”
Things worked out in the end for Adam Wingard. He recently landed a gig directingGodzilla vs. Kongfor Legendary Pictures, which is going to be a massive franchise flick. So that could end up being a bigger deal for his career moving forward. Rumored to be titledHalloween Returns, Blumhouse, the studio behindSplitandThe Purge, is producing the new Michael Myers movie, which isgoing to be a sequelbut will ignore much of the later mythology and take primarily from the first two movies. We haven’t seen a goodHalloweenmovie in a while, so whoever is making it, horror fans just want it to be good. If it isn’t, we may look back and wonder what Wingard’s version of it would have been.
