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[unclematt]

What was up with Halloween 3? How did can you have a Halloween movie with no Michael Meyers?

 

[Winslow Leach]

What was up with Halloween 3? How did can you have a Halloween movie with no Michael Meyers?

Here's the deal with Halloween 3.

At the end of Part 2, the Shape is apparently killed for good (remember, Part 2 picks up exactly where the first one left off). John Carpenter, who had written a treatment for Part 2 (somewhat reluctantly) had his work rejected, because the studio wanted more blood and violence, something Carpenter kept at a minimum in the first film. So he vowed no more Halloween films for him.

At the time Universal had the distribution rights for Halloween 2 and any potential sequels. The second film did well enough for the studio to greenlight a third film. But Myers was dead, and no one could think of a reasonable way to bring him back.

So Universal decided to start an all-new series of Halloween films, using the title, but none of Carpenter's characters. The studio planned to release a new Halloween film once a year, each one totally different from the last. They would be stand-alone stories using Halloween in the title, but having absolutely no connection whatsoever with Michael Myers.

Halloween 3: Season of the Witch was the first (and only) film released using this idea. The story was about a company that manufactures deadly Halloween masks or something like that, right? Anyway, the film didn't do so well at the box office, and Universal lost interest in coming up with new story ideas. Who knows? If the film was successful, we may have had Halloween films dealing with vampires, the living dead, mad scientists, aliens and other creatures. And old Mikey might still be dead. So several years pass until Halloween 4 is greenlit for another studio, and Michael Myers rises once again.

 

[unclematt]

Winslow you are a wealth of Halloween knowledge.

 

[karamazov80]

But Myers was dead, and no one could think of a reasonable way to bring him back.

That is mind-boggling. A ten year old could have thought up something. . .

By the way, Halloween 3 is beyond awful.

 

[unclematt]

I agree it is terrible.

 

[Winslow Leach]

That is mind-boggling. A ten year old could have thought up something. . .

By the way, Halloween 3 is beyond awful.

Yeah, it was a bad film. But as I said, the producers were hoping it would be a launching pad for a new series of horror films set around Halloween.

 

[Winslow Leach]

Winslow you are a wealth of Halloween knowledge.

Thanks! 'Tis my favorite holiday, you know!

 

[Beakerfan]

I REALLY wanna see "Across the Universe"! The only celebrity name I recognize from the credits is Bono of U2 (as Dr. Robert)

If you haven't heard of it, "Across the Universe" is a movie that has taken many of the Beatles most famous songs and meshed them into one movie. All the main characters have been taken from songs (Jude, Lucy, Jojo, Prudence, Sadie, Max, Dr. Robert, etc...)

It looks really cool.

 

[unclematt]

Across the Universe looks fantastic. My best friend, Amamnda, and I are going to see it opening night.

 

[karamazov80]

I love the Beatles, but I don't know about that one based on the trailer I've seen. . .however, I do really want to check out Superbad and Stardust. I love me some Judd Apatow and Neil Gaiman. . .imagine the film they would make together. It would probably reek, actually.