It turns out that the original version of the new film’s script, written by Danny McBride, Jeff Fradley, and director David Gordon Green, would have essentially rewritten the ending of the original Halloween, and in the process would have killed Dr. Loomis, the psychiatrist played in the original horror classic by Donald Pleasance who finally stops Michael Myers.
The new Halloween ignores all the previous sequels, but it almost approached the original film in a very different way as well.