Halloween Ends' Final Girl Tease Hints Laurie Strode Won't Die
Halloween Ends will see Laurie Strode confronting Michael Myers one last time, and Jamie Lee Curtis’ tease about being a Final Girl hints that Laurie won’t die. The Halloween franchise has gone through different retcons over the years that have made way for different timelines, and the current one is the reboot trilogy by David Gordon Green. The Halloween reboot timeline brought Laurie Strode and Michael Myers back four decades after their first encounter, and the nightmare isn’t over yet for her and Haddonfield.
Back in 1978, John Carpenter’s Halloween introduced the audience to Michael Myers, who on Halloween night 1963, killed his older sister and was sent to Smith’s Grove Sanitarium. Michael escaped 15 years later and returned to Haddonfield, Illinois, where he targeted Laurie Strode and her friends. Laurie was the only survivor of Michael Myers’ killing spree, and even though Michael Myers’ targets changed with time (and among those was Laurie’s daughter, Jamie Lloyd), Laurie Strode was established as the Final Girl of the Halloween franchise, and that might be a title she won’t give up in Halloween Ends.
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In an interview with Salon, Jamie Lee Curtis shared that her experience filming Halloween Ends made her truly understand how important being a “final girl” is, calling the Halloween Ends experience “deeply emotional and cathartic”. Although Curtis didn’t share anything about Laurie’s story in Halloween Ends (but there have been teases about the ending potentially pissing fans off), her words on the importance of being a Final Girl hint at Laurie surviving her final encounter with Michael Myers – but that doesn’t necessarily mean that Laurie
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