John Carpenter Breaks His Silence on Whether or Not Halloween Ends Is the Last Film

Published: 22 Aug 2022 2:44 PM +00:00 Updated: 22 Aug 2022 2:44 PM +00:00

Halloween Ends (2022) is just around the corner (oddly enough, the trees have already started shedding their leaves in preparation for the spooky season). But now, original Halloween (1978) director John Carpenter has broken his silence on whether or not the upcoming sequel will be the last...

First, check out the official trailer for Halloween Ends below, which promises an epic showdown between Laurie Strode and Michael Myers:

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Following Halloween (2018) and Halloween Kills (2021), Halloween Ends will be the final film in David Gordon Green's Halloween Trilogy, which ignores every single Halloween movie since the 1978 original.

In order of release, those sequels are as follows (we think it's very important to keep track of this series):

Halloween II (1981)

Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)

Halloween 4: The Return Of Michael Myers (1988)

Halloween 5: The Revenge Of Michael Myers (1989)

Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995)

Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998)

Halloween: Resurrection (2002)

Rob Zombie's Halloween (2007)

Rob Zombie's Halloween II (2009)

As you can see, the Halloween franchise has endured for decades. So it's hard to believe that Universal Pictures intends to hang up the William Shatner mask once Halloween Ends makes an inevitable fortune at the box office.

Recently, producer Jason Blum suggested that there would be more Halloween movies beyond the latest Blumhouse Halloween movies, but that may not be related to the David Gordon Green timeline.

In an interview with ScreenRant, he said:

“I didn’t say it’s gonna be the last Halloween movie,” Blum said, “It’s our last Halloween movie. We have no more rights to make any more Halloween, so it goes back to Malek [Akkad]. And what he does, only he knows, but we are done. And this is our last one and I think people will be very happy.”

Now, John Carpenter, who directed the original 1978 film and composes the score for the new Halloween movies, has broken his silence on whether or not he thinks Halloween Ends will actually be the end of the franchise.

At Pennsylvania's Steel City Convention (via ComicBook), the director said:

"I didn't expect there to be a sequel [to Halloween '78]. The movie business is ruled by money. [The first] Halloween made so much money, here they came again, the same guys [saying], 'Hey John, let's do another one.’ I guarantee you if Halloween Ends makes a lot of money, guess what? Just guess what."

Well, we can't say we're surprised. After all, not only is Michael Myers unstoppable, the Halloween franchise has more than a handful of different timelines, so who's to say Halloween Ends is even the end?

Whether or not a future Halloween movie will continue canonically from Halloween Ends or starts a whole new timeline remains to be seen, but one thing's for sure - you can't kill the bogeyman...

As per Blumhouse Pictures (via Wikipedia), here's the official synopsis for Halloween Ends, the final chapter in David Gordon Green's Halloween Trilogy:

Four years after the events of Halloween Kills, Laurie is living with her granddaughter Allyson after the death of her parents.

Laurie has decided to take all the fear and rage, she has been holding onto for the last 4 decades and write a memoir which is almost completed.

Michael Myers has once again disappeared and hasn't been seen since. This time Laurie has decided to liberate her fear and rage and embrace life with open arms.

All is quiet in Haddonfield, but when a young man, Corey Cunningham, is accused of killing a boy he was babysitting, it ignites a cascade of violence and terror that will force Laurie to finally confront the evil she couldn't control, once and for all.

Halloween Ends stars Jamie Lee Curtis, Will Patton, Andi Matichak, and James Jude Courtney, and Kyle Richards, who will be reprising their roles as Laurie Strode, Frank Hawkins, Allyson Nelson, Michael Myers, and Lindsey Wallace.

Newcomers include Rohan Campbell (Corey Cunningham), Michael O'Leary (Dr. Mathis), while original Michael Myers actor Nick Castle is also expected to reprise his role as the killer (in part), having done so in both previous movies.

The film will be released in theaters on October 14, 2022 by Universal Pictures. It is unknown at this time if it will release simultaneously on US streaming service Peacock like its predecessor Halloween Kills.

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