We’ve gotten no shortage of sound bite teases for next year’s Halloween Kills over the last few months, with John Carpenter calling the sequel “a slasher movie times 100,” co-writer Scott Teems saying it’s “bigger, badder and meaner” than the previous movie, and Jason Blum referring to it as “a very big movie.” This latest tease comes direct from the film’s director.
Speaking with Total Film, David Gordon Green touched upon the aspect of Halloween Kills that makes it feel different from Halloween 2018, as well as all previous Halloween movies.
“If the first film was somewhat retelling the origin of Myers and getting us up to speed with where Laurie had been all those years, then part two is about the outrage of Haddonfield,” Gordon Green told Total Film for the magazine’s latest issue, reported by sister publication Games Radar. “Mob Rules was our working title for the film.”
He added, “It’s about a community that is united by outrage, and divided in how to deal with evil.”
It’s not just Laurie and the Strode family who will be trying to take Michael Myers down in Halloween Kills but rather the entire town of Haddonfield, populated in next year’s sequel by returning faces including Charles Cyphers as Leigh Brackett, Anthony Michael Hall as Tommy Doyle, Kyle Richards as Lindsey Wallace and Nancy Stephens as Marion Chambers.
The current release date for Halloween Kills is October 15, 2021, only in theaters.