'Halloween' Fans Gripe Over 'Creative Reset' Claims About TV Show

Allison Schonter

03/14/2024 04:30 pm EDT

The Halloween franchise is in for a "creative reset" after Miramax Television in October landed the TV rights to the slasher franchise, but not everyone is on board with the news. Following Deadline's Friday report that Miramax is "on a fast track" to develop and co-produce a Halloween TV series that draws from the original 1978 John Carpenter movie, Halloween fans are weighing in on the new direction for the iconic Michael Myers franchise.

"We've had lots of exciting conversations in recent months with a number of really talented people, and I think we'll have a pretty good idea of what we're going to be doing very soon. We're hoping to lock down the creative team very soon," Miramax head Marc Helwig told Deadline, adding that the planned TV series, part of a larger anticipated Halloween cinematic universe, will draw from "the original film, the John Carpenter movie, the characters of that film, and perhaps a group of characters that we haven't really focused on that much in recent film versions or even in a number of them. It's a creative reset completely and going back to the original film, as opposed to spinning out of any of the more recent film adaptations."

Following the latest installment in the franchise — Blumhouse's David Gordon Green trilogy of Halloween (2018), Halloween Kills (2021), and Halloween Ends (2022), which largely divided fans – Deadline's Friday report sparked plenty of discussion among fans. While some are eager to see Michael Myers again, others appear to be much more reluctant about the planned "creative reset" for the franchise.

Confusion over 'creative reset'

"I was really hoping for a total fresh start, we have enough branches off '78, just do a totally new take if you're going back to Michael Myers," one person wrote on a Reddit thread discussing the update.

Some excited to 'get back to the real plot of things'

"Do a very stalky, creepy, stealth, and heavy breathing Michael going after randoms. Materialize out of dark corners. Use the shadows. Go old school all the way but commit to it," another franchise fan shared. "Not too many kills, but really scary ones."

Too many reboots and sequels

"How many times has Halloween been rebooted now?" one person asked, with somebody else quipping on Reddit, "Keep the reboots coming. They gotta take the lead from the Godzilla franchise! Or maybe Halloween has had more reboots, I don't really know."

'Been waiting for this'

"Been waiting for this. I dont even care if the plots good. I just love me some Michael Myers," another person added to the discussion. "They could make a 10 season series all about him just killing people and I'd watch the hell outta that."

Not the first 'creative reset' for the franchise

"The words 'creative reset' being used to describe a project trying to squeeze more life out a 45 year old exhausted franchise by adding, what, 8-10+ more hours of stretched out TV episodes is hilarious," somebody else wrote.

Many were hoping for a different direction for the franchise

"I'll give it a chance but it's a bummer they're resetting back to the original yet again," shared one fan. "Lots of other ways they could have went with it."

Fans hoping to see Danielle Harris return to the franchise

Actress Danielle Harris has been a fan-favorite star of the Halloween franchise for decades now. She first appeared in the franchise in 1988's Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers as Jamie Llyod, the daughter of Jamie Lee Curtis' Laurie Strode, reprising the role for 1989's Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers. She also starred as Annie Brackett in Rob Zombie's 2007 remake, Halloween, and its 2009 sequel, Halloween II. Fans have long been hoping to see Harris return to the franchise yet again, with Harris herself teasing her willingness to appear in the upcoming TV series when she took amid Deadline's Friday report to ask, "is Jamie Lloyd considered part of the 'original'?"

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