Remember when all that news kept coming out bit by bit when Rob Zombie’s re-imagining of Halloween was coming out? Well, get ready for the same treatment as he’s back to write and direct the second one!
Rob Zombie is packing up and heading back to Haddonfield for H2, the sequel to his remake of John Carpenter’s classic film from 1978. While other horror websites patronized us for reporting the story broke by Shock, it appears the egg is in their face as Zombie will return to both write and direct the sequel to Halloween for Dimension Films. Read on for the official news and full details on the deal. What do you guys think? Where should Zombie take the sequel?
Dimension Films and Rob Zombie are teaming for another chapter of Halloween, and he’s racing to scare up the pic for release in October.
Zombie will write and direct H2, the sequel to his 2007 reinvention of the John Carpenter horror classic. Production will begin in March.
The new film picks up right as the first remake ended, following the aftermath of Michael Myers’ murderous rampage through the eyes of the sister he hunted.
Zombie said it won’t resemble the original second installment, as the House of 1000 Corpses helmer continues to take the franchise in different directions.
Zombie took Carpenter’s original and stamped it with an original storyline that treated Myers as a clinical psychopath. The film grossed $60 million domestically in 2007.
Zombie had told Dimension chief and TWC co-chairman Bob Weinstein he wanted nothing to do with a sequel. But just like the franchise’s villain, Zombie was compelled to come back.
“I was so burned out. (But) I took a long break, made a record and I got excited again,” Zombie said. “Now, we’ll be hauling ass, and that’s the problem making a movie called Halloween: If you come out Nov. 1 or after, nobody cares. If it was called anything else, I’d be fine.”
Malek Akkad of Trancas Intl. Films will produce with Spectacle Entertainment’s Andy Gould.
Bloody-Disgusting actually been hearing about Zombie’s return to Haddonfield for a few weeks now, and something that has become quite clear to them is that Zombie intends on bringing back a few names from his 2007 remake of Halloween. From their sources close to the project, expect to see the return of Scout Taylor-Compton as Laurie Strode, Tyler Mane as Michael Myers, Malcolm McDowell as Dr. Sam Loomis, Daeg Faerch as young Michael Myers and of course Sheri Moon Zombie as Deborah Meyers. Nothing is set in stone as the script is currently being written, but we’ll have the official news when anything is officially announced. Rob Zombie’s H2 picks up right as the first remake ended, following the aftermath of Michael Myers’ murderous rampage through the eyes of the sister he hunted.
And now for some early poster art from H2:
Credit: Variety/Bloody-Disgusting
