An Unmade Halloween Reboot Trilogy Introduced A Halloween Multiverse
A proposed Halloween reboot trilogy revealed there is a Halloween multiverse. Halloween 1978 set the blueprint for the slasher movie subgenre that would follow, with everything from Friday The 13th to Scream working off its template. Given the sheer number of sequels and reboots the series has received, the timeline has become something of a tangled mess. The latest iteration began with Halloween 2018, with this David Gordon Green helmed outing ignoring everything bar John Carpenter's original.
This freed up the narrative, but it's the latest in a recurring habit of the franchise to periodically hit the reset switch. Halloween has basically become a «Choose Your Own Adventure» narrative, which encompasses everything from the Halloween «Thorn» trilogy (parts 4-6) to Rob Zombie's remakes. For a series spawned from such a clean, simple premise — a borderline supernatural killer stalks some babysitters — the storylines have become increasingly convoluted over the decades. While Green's Halloween promised to return to that same simplicity, Halloween Kills also attempted to apply motives to Michael, which took away some of his mystique.
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The Halloween franchise has also taken numerous breaks from the big screen, often following the underperformance of a given sequel. Halloween 5 fared poorly, and it was six years until the series returned. Zombie's Halloween II is easily one of the most divisive entries, and it took almost a decade for Green's reboot to hit screens. During this period, writer Stef Hutchinson — who penned Halloween comics such as Nightdance — proposed an ambitious, dark trilogy that totally reimagined the series and introduced a
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