UnNews:Christopher Nolan discusses unproduced Halloween reboot
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21 March 2013
BURBANK, California -- Acclaimed director Christopher Nolan -- who is busy producing Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel, and will soon helm the science fiction film Interstellar -- has recently revealed that he, brother Jonathan Nolan, and Dark Knight Trilogy co-writer David S. Goyer provided their own take on a possible next installment of the popular Halloween franchise.
According to the famed director, producer Malek Akkad had contacted him out of the blue, telling him the Weinstein Brothers, who had made two Halloween films with Rob Zombie, but the last one 2009’s Halloween II, wanted him to make the latest episode in the franchise.
| “ | I curiously said yes. I admit I didn’t know a whole lot about Halloween at the time, so I let Jonah [Jonathan Nolan] and David S. Goyer write the first draft while I watched all ten Halloweens. That includes the classic original; the great Halloweens 2, 4, and H20; the Myerless Halloween III: Season of the Witch; the questionable Halloweens 5 and 6; the well-intentioned remake; and the horrible Halloween 8 and Rob Zombie’s Halloween II, which is a sequel to the remake.
When Jonah showed me his first draft of his screenplay, it was 400 pages long or something! It had all this crazy stuff in it. As part of a primer when he handed it to me, he said, 'You've got to think of [The Charles Dickens classic] David Copperfield which, of course, you've read.' I said, 'Absolutely.' I read the script and was a little baffled by a few things and realized that I'd never read David Copperfield! It was just one of those things that I thought I had done. Then I got it, read it and absolutely loved it and got completely what he was talking about... When I did my draft on the script, it was all about David Copperfield. |
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Nolan first began revealing details of about his new vision for the movie series on Facebook. Such was the interest caused by the posts, he ultimately made a video interview which he uploaded, further explaining his ideas.
| “ | Jonah, David, and I wanted Michael Myers to be completely unrelated to Judith and Laurie. In fact, we decided we didn’t want Laurie at all. But we did include her father, whom we named Jerry, since he’s selling the Myers House as in the original and also in the Rob Zombie version.
Michael Myers, an only child, murdered his babysitter -- coincidentally named Judith Myers -- on Halloween Night 1963. What follows is more or less the classic story, but replacing Laurie, Annie, and Lynda with new characters (with different personalities) to freshen things up. Danielle Curtis is basically Laurie. Nancy Harris (as the name might imply) is the new Annie, except she’s not the smart aleck that Annie is. She and Amber Clooney are a lot less sexually promiscuous than Annie and Lynda. Amber would never overuse the word ‘Totally!’ I wanted to bring back the idea of Michael Myers as the Shape. I wanted to do away with the backstory and motives that Rob Zombie gave him in the two films. I wanted sheer suspense and tension, versus the blood and gore of the sequels. I wanted to go back to what John Carpenter did with the original. |
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The film was set to be shot in IMAX and distributed by both The Weinstein Company’s Dimension Films imprint and Warner Bros. but “plans fell through somewhere down the line. I’m not exactly sure what happened. They moved on, and so did I.”
The film is still in development hell.
