Danny McBride Doesn’t Want A Supernatural Michael Myers In ‘Halloween’
Starring in anAlienmovie, co-writing aHalloweenfilm, and a second season ofVice Principalson the way, it’s a good time to be aDanny McBridefan. McBride andDavid Gordon Green, who directed most of season 2 ofVice Principals, are working on getting Michael Meyers back in theaters next October.
According to McBride, the man in the iconic mask will no longer be some unkillable entity. Below, McBride discusses the newHalloween rebootand going back to the simplicity ofJohn Carpenter’s classic.
Green and McBride are making aHalloweenfilm, not aHalloweenremake. Based onprevious comments, the original andHalloween IIare cannon, but Green’s film will ignore the other sequels. While most of their collaborations have been comedic, the director and McBride are making a “straight-up horror movie.”
The actor toldVarietythey’re writing at this moment and aiming for a fall start:
We are writing pretty furiously right now and we’re trying to shoot it this fall. We want to try and get it out for the 40th anniversary next year, so we are deep in the trenches of the script and hammering away.
They’re going for a “simplicity and an efficiency,” which was lacking in some of the sequels and, most noticeably, theRob Zombiefilms. During his time on theEmpire Podcast, McBride said his and Green’s take isn’t a supernatural Michael Myers:
I think we’re just trying to strip it down and just take it back to what was so good about the original. It was just very simple and just achieved that level of horror that wasn’t corny. And it wasn’t turning Michael Myers into some supernatural being that couldn’t be killed— that stuff to me isn’t scary. I want to be scared by something that I really think could happen. I think it’s much more horrifying to be scared by someone standing in the shadows while you’re taking the trash out as opposed to someone who can’t be killed pursuing you.
Myers was almost this unstoppable force in the firstHalloween, surviving quite a few bumps, bruises, and gun shots maybe most humans wouldn’t, but he was still more rooted in reality than the following depictions of the character. It’s promising to hear McBride and Green want the character to tap into some real fear again. TheAlienstar isn’t confirmed to have a role in the movie, but after his strong work inAlien, I’m now hoping we see him appear and give Myers a good fight.
