In the wake of Halloween Kills we’re getting David Gordon Green‘s Halloween Ends, intended to be the final film in Gordon Green’s sequel trilogy. Halloween Kills is releasing on October 15, 2021 with Halloween Ends currently dated for October 14, 2022.
While Halloween Kills has been hyped up as “the ultimate slasher movie,” large in scope and loaded with gory mayhem, it sounds like Halloween Ends will be taking the opposite approach.
Producer Malek Akkad explains to Total Film Magazine in the latest issue, “The last one is going to be way more contained.”
David Gordon Green similarly teases in the magazine’s new issue, “I get engaged by doing something different. If I was just going to be repetitive, I would hand the reins off to someone else. When you have that opportunity within an established franchise, it’s really fun to think about how you can show different tones and perspectives and evolve.”
As for Jamie Lee Curtis, who will be back as Laurie Strode in Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends, she tells Total Film that the latter movie is likely the last time she’ll play the character.
“I would say, given what I know about the next movie, I think it will be the last time that I will play her,” Curtis notes. “And I’m not saying something like, ‘Oh, because I die!’ It’s nothing to do with that. I’m talking about emotionally what they have constructed.
“I think it will be a spectacular way to end this trilogy.”