In other words, it will ignore every movie that came after, which means that it’s been 40 years since Laurie’s last encounter with Michael.
Like Halloween H20: 20 Years Later, Halloween will also be a direct sequel to Halloween II.
David Gordon Green is co-writing Halloween with Danny McBride, and John Carpenter, who launched the Halloween franchise with Debra Hill, is attached as executive producer.
All we know so far about the next Halloween movie will mark Laurie Strode’s final confrontation with Michael Myers, though if this installment proves to be a critical and commercial success like some of Blumhouse’s other horror movies, perhaps the studio will reconsider the “finality” of this tale.