The long-mooted Halloween 3 was brought up, naturally. But Akkad remained rather tight-lipped about the project which was said to be gaining some momentum a few months back.
I can’t talk about it too much right now, but it will definitely keep elements and bring in new elements. But I really want to bring it back to kind of like, the classic – because the last one got a little dark – I want to bring it back to the classic Friday night horror film that people will really like.
That’s a pretty broad quote. Doesn’t say much, but hey…it’s something from Akkad since all of those recent rumblings.
The new script, he asserts, will not be the Patrick Lussier/Todd Farmer-scripted sequel. Instead, they’ll be working from an all-new take.
Todd Farmer and Patrick Lussier did a script. The next day after the last one came out, we were back in production for Halloween 3D. We were about two weeks from going down to Louisiana to shoot it and for whatever reason, the studio thought we were maybe moving a little bit too quickly. I disagree. I think we had a great script and a great team and it would have been a massive hit. But right now we’re currently working on a new script for Halloween 3, so it’s all in the works right now.
Click on the aforementioned link for more. Akkad talks about the Halloween 6 producer cut that was announced a few weeks back and will be included in the forthcoming Blu-ray box set.
