Halloween 2018 takes an interesting approach to the famous horror franchise by establishing another new timeline. Completely ignoring every sequel in the series, David Gordon Green’s Halloween recognizes only the 1978 film from John Carpenter. But Bloody Disgusting has learned from Green that the original plans for the film would have taken things a step further by completely retconning the ending of the original.
Warning: Minor spoilers ahead…
In the script, the ending of the original film is altered, and Green even had plans to reshoot it for the beginning of Halloween 2018. The idea was to use a body double for Loomis, potentially using CGI to insert Donald Pleasence into the film. Jamie Lee Curtis, along with her own body double, would have been added into the scene as well using special FX.
We had this very complicated overhead view of Loomis shooting the gun, Michael going over and then the apprehension, assuming everybody was going to need a little bit to get back up to speed with where we are and we haven’t seen the movie in a long time or we’ve never seen the movie, had to invite everyone to the party and that kind of thing. We kept pushing it off.
Green further explains that it was Carpenter himself who convinced him not to go through with it. The director was worrying about the scene, unsure if the audience would understand what was happening. “Just trust ‘em and leave ‘em alone and let ‘em figure it out,” Carpenter reportedly told the filmmaker. The scene was then completely dropped.
Interestingly enough, however, part of the set they were building to use as Laurie’s house for the nixed scene still made it into the movie. Eagle-eyed fans might recognize a certain room in the film:
So we turned the set of the house into Laurie’s bedroom. So the scene in the climax with all the mannequins is to the square inch a rebuild of that room. The closet’s in the same place, the balcony’s in the same place. All those things landed so it became, out of cost necessity, this incredible subconscious (because I don’t think anybody would pick that up) rebuild of an environment from the original film.
David Gordon Green’s Halloween hits theaters everywhere on Oct. 19.
Synopsis: Jamie Lee Curtis returns to her iconic role as Laurie Strode, who comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.