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Lord Borg
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 Thu May 04, 2006 9:53 am Halloween' Returns to Hollywood |
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| IMDB wrote: | | A ninth Halloween movie is being planned - as a prequel to the cult horror franchise. Plans to make Halloween: The Missing Years were shelved when producer Moustapha Akkad died in last year's terrorist attacks in Jordan, but writer Jake Wade Wall has confirmed to moviehole.net that the series is back on. Wall tells the site that the prequel will focus on the life of serial killer Michael Myers as a young man, before he was placed in a mental institution. Wall says, "I've been hired three different times for it (the film)... It looks like it's finally set to go. I know that they're (studio executives) in the process of nailing down a really big director but I haven't been able to figure out who it is yet." |
Oh, please  . A Prequel set before his mental insititution days? He was a kid then, not a young man.
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Superman
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| Thu May 04, 2006 10:44 am |
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I like the Halloween movies, even though some of them are weak. Okay, the plots haven't been original in years, but with a Halloween movie, you know what you're getting. Why not just give us more bloodshed, with Michael Myers stalking some naive youngsters?
Besides, I hate the idea of prequels for characters like Jason Voorhees and Michael Myers because a large part of their appeal is their mystique. If you start getting inside their heads, it taints their mystique. I'd rather not know the ins and outs of their origins. Let Michael Myers be Michael Myers. We don't need no psychoanalyzing. Besides, you're right, he was about 9 when he was first committed to the mental institution.
Thanks for sharing the link, Lord Borg.
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Leo Wyatt
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| Thu May 04, 2006 11:02 am |
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Oh come on now. Don't be so negative until you see if it comes out.  I probably just wait til if it comes out and make an real opinion on it.
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Superman
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| Thu May 04, 2006 12:47 pm |
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| Leo Wyatt wrote: | | Oh come on now. Don't be so negative until you see if it comes out. I probably just wait til if it comes out and make an real opinion on it. |
I've seen too many concepts screwed around with, though. I don't mind a franchise changing course - I mean, I'm looking forward to the new Bond movie later this year. But there's no need, in my opinion, to start messing around with Michael Myers. People expect certain things from a Halloween movie and, as Lord Borg has said, he was a kid before his mental institution days.
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Leo Wyatt
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| Thu May 04, 2006 1:03 pm |
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Yeah but he did kill his sister when he was a kid as I recall.
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Superman
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| Thu May 04, 2006 1:30 pm |
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| Leo Wyatt wrote: | | Yeah but he did kill his sister when he was a kid as I recall. |
True, but he was only about 9. The prequel is set to be about his years before his incarceration in a mental institution. What story can they possibly tell about a 9 year old? We know the story. He killed his sister when he was about 9, he was incarcerated in a mental institution, he escaped, did his evil deeds and so on. A prequel is unnecessary.
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Lord Borg
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| Thu May 04, 2006 7:05 pm |
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| Superman wrote: | | Leo Wyatt wrote: | | Yeah but he did kill his sister when he was a kid as I recall. |
True, but he was only about 9. The prequel is set to be about his years before his incarceration in a mental institution. What story can they possibly tell about a 9 year old? We know the story. He killed his sister when he was about 9, he was incarcerated in a mental institution, he escaped, did his evil deeds and so on. A prequel is unnecessary. |
Yeah, the only way this could work is to screw up the canon and have him be older or something
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Superman
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| Thu May 04, 2006 7:07 pm |
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| Lord Borg wrote: | | Superman wrote: | | Leo Wyatt wrote: | | Yeah but he did kill his sister when he was a kid as I recall. |
True, but he was only about 9. The prequel is set to be about his years before his incarceration in a mental institution. What story can they possibly tell about a 9 year old? We know the story. He killed his sister when he was about 9, he was incarcerated in a mental institution, he escaped, did his evil deeds and so on. A prequel is unnecessary. |
Yeah, the only way this could work is to screw up the canon and have him be older or something |
It certainly would screw up the canon. And having invested time and money in the Halloween franchise over the years, I wouldn't be pleased. If they changed it, it'd contradict everything that happened in the first movie and they might as well invalidate the other movies and call them "imaginary tales" because that's all they would be if canon was screwed up.
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Lord Borg
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| Thu May 04, 2006 7:20 pm |
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Well, maybe in a way it could still work, Loomis supposedly had horror stories of him in the insititution. It was going to be set after the latest movie, but when Mufusta died in the terrorist attacks last year, it was shelved
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Superman
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| Thu May 04, 2006 7:21 pm |
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If it shows us Michael Myer's time during his incarceration, then I'd be willing to give it a look, although even then I fear the character's mystique would be tainted if we saw him without the mask and relatively normal.
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| Thu May 04, 2006 7:21 pm |
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Yep...my older brother, the biggest Halloween fan I know, will be totally pissed if they make a prequel to Halloween...I loved the first and I liked the second (hated the third; seeing as it had nothing to do with the Halloween we know, and so on). They have already jacked up the series with those horrible two "modern" Halloweens, "H20" and "Resurrection"...don't do this...please...its a disgrace to a great movie franchise.
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Superman
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| Thu May 04, 2006 7:24 pm |
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We can always count on La Forge to defend continuity and canon. And I mean that as a compliment, La Forge. Doesn't it invalidate history and canon if producers just ignore everything that has come before?
I will say, though, I enjoyed the third Halloween movie on it's own merits. I'm told that after Halloween II, the franchise was supposed to feature a different story and villain in subsequent movies, but they decided to bring back Michael Myers with the fourth movie.
Anyway, I'm glad to know people like La Forge and Lord Borg value canon and continuity. 
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| Fri May 05, 2006 3:56 am |
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What? A prequel to the movie? That just seems...I don't know. I loved the first movie, it was the best, followed by the 2nd movie because it had Jamie Lee Curtis and it took place right after the first movie left off. I'm tired of the continutation of the Halloween movies. They've gone downhill after Halloween 2. Just like all of the Friday the 13th movies went downhill. Halloween is my favorite horror movie, so they better not screw it up with telling about Michael Myers. Wouldn't that be kind of boring though? I mean, he would probably be just some weird creepy kid like from the Omen or something, except his main goal was to kill his sister, even then. What is there to explain, the kid was mentally disturbed, that's it. And he tried to kill Jamie Lee Curtis...and whoever got in his way...every Halloween.
LOL, talk about the lost years. You know, I wanna know what happens to Michael Myers when it's not October. What does he do during the rest of the year? Does he get a local job at McDonalds breathing through the drive threw for the customers? Does he work at some place like Home Depot or Lowe's? I wanna know these things. NOW those are some lost years people. 
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Superman
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| Fri May 05, 2006 5:44 am |
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| Quote: | | LOL, talk about the lost years. You know, I wanna know what happens to Michael Myers when it's not October. What does he do during the rest of the year? Does he get a local job at McDonalds breathing through the drive threw for the customers? Does he work at some place like Home Depot or Lowe's? I wanna know these things. NOW those are some lost years people. |
It does make you wonder what people like Jason and Michael do in their spare time, doesn't it? I mean, surely they must have at least one hobby.
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| Fri May 05, 2006 9:24 am |
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I think it would be interesting to see what took place before the whole massacres started. Perhaps it might shed some light on what actually made Michael Myers do the things he did. i dont know its just a thought
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Superman
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| Fri May 05, 2006 1:36 pm |
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| Brightstar82 wrote: | | I think it would be interesting to see what took place before the whole massacres started. Perhaps it might shed some light on what actually made Michael Myers do the things he did. i dont know its just a thought |
Maybe, but I think the fifth and sixth movies did a reasonable job there. I just think the concept of prequels is overused now. What's next, a prequel featuring a very young Harry Potter?
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Lord Borg
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| Fri May 05, 2006 4:16 pm |
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| Superman wrote: | | Brightstar82 wrote: | | I think it would be interesting to see what took place before the whole massacres started. Perhaps it might shed some light on what actually made Michael Myers do the things he did. i dont know its just a thought |
Maybe, but I think the fifth and sixth movies did a reasonable job there. I just think the concept of prequels is overused now. What's next, a prequel featuring a very young Harry Potter? |
Don't give Hollywood Ideas...
Halloween I & II (Especialy II) did a decent job with that, 4,5,6 was ok, untill the writers of H2O decided to make it so 4,5,6 never happend
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Lord Borg
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| Tue Aug 01, 2006 12:34 pm |
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Well, Horror Fan's. The Idea of a sequal has been cancelled. This is due to the death of long time producer Moustapha Akkad (RIP) in the November 2005 Amman bombings. It appears now, that the latest movie, will actually be a semi remake of the first film, but more so, a 'reimagining' of the film, helmed by no other, then Rob Zombie. I will make a differnt topic for this project as it is a seperate one.
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Jeff Miller
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I personally think the three major movie series are great (Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween) Although they each have made movies that did some damage to each of the Series. (Part 5 for Friday the 13th, Part 2 for Nightmare on Elm Street and Part 3 for Halloween.) I think this may be what the Halloween Series needs to jumpstart it again.
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