'H2', Rob Zombie's sequel to 'Halloween'

[biolumen]

Looks like Rob changed his mind and decided to make a sequel after all.

Zombie making 'Halloween' sequel
Dimension to release director's 'H2' in October

By MICHAEL FLEMING
Dimension Films and Rob Zombie are teaming for another chapter of "Halloween," and he's racing to scare up the pic for release in October.

Zombie will write and direct "H2," the sequel to his 2007 reinvention of the John Carpenter horror classic. Production will begin in March.

The new film picks up right as the first remake ended, following the aftermath of Michael Myers' murderous rampage through the eyes of the sister he hunted.

Zombie said it won't resemble the original second installment, as the "House of 1000 Corpses" helmer continues to take the franchise in different directions.

Zombie took Carpenter's original and stamped it with an original storyline that treated Myers as a clinical psychopath. The film grossed $60 million domestically in 2007.

Zombie had told Dimension chief and TWC co-chairman Bob Weinstein he wanted nothing to do with a sequel. But just like the franchise's villain, Zombie was compelled to come back.

"I was so burned out. (But) I took a long break, made a record and I got excited again," Zombie said. "Now, we'll be hauling ass, and that's the problem making a movie called 'Halloween': If you come out Nov. 1 or after, nobody cares. If it was called anything else, I'd be fine."

Malek Akkad of Trancas Intl. Films will produce with Spectacle Entertainment's Andy Gould.

http://www.variety.com/article/VR111...ryId=2429&cs=1

[JustABill]

Interesting. Horrible name though.

[TwilightPro101]

I'll see it purely as a Halloween fan, but I'm not expecting much.

[Wesley Dodds]

Originally Posted by TwilightPro101

I'll see it purely as a Halloween fan, but I'm not expecting much.

As a Halloween fan and a John Carpenter fan, i'll be avoiding this just like the previous one... Just like all of these other air headed remakes and "reboots" of cherished Carpenter favourites from my youth...

[The Apatow Crew]

Isn't there a thread about this already?

[superadam87]

stay away from blood and gore and stick to suspense and make a complete 180 from Halloween.

i was pretty dissapointed with the re-imagining. I didn't go in at all expecting to see another carpenteresque film but the blood and gore was too much.

[hitmanyr2k]

I think there was an earlier thread but it didn't have the awful news of Zombie returning to direct.

[TwilightPro101]

I was hoping the other directors would have been involved. I really have no expectations for things to improve considering Zombie is coming back.

[byte19]

[theShape]

Is it just me, or did Michael get shot in the face at the end of Zombie's horrid remake? And didn't Zombie himself say he had no plans to come back and that the story was essentially over?

[Brian Braddock]

'H2'?

Oh.

[Rac]

Originally Posted by byte19

Seconded.

[Immortalfire]

H2: The Life of A Hummer

[DACrowe]

Honestly, I did not hate Zombie's movie. It wasn't that good and pales deeply in the shadow of the John Carpenter classic from 1978. But I just am not full of venom to Zombie's movie. In the end it is still the best of the horror remakes to date and is better than pretty much all other movies with Michael Myers in it, except maybe H20.

I will say this, I liked how they handled the family murders and how creepy the killing of the bully and sister was. And I really liked all the scenes between young Michael and Dr. Loomis and how it developed both in an interesting new way and surprisingly how sympathetic Sherry Moon was in this portion of the movie with her eventual suicide.

The rest is trash, but the franchise has been as well for nearly 30 years now, so whatever.

[Hunter Rider]

[CFE]

http://forums.superherohype.com/show...=314187&page=2

[The Apatow Crew]

Originally Posted by Hunter Rider

So this is suppose to be out by 2009 and no filming has started yet? Only way possible is if they start in january and maybe have it out by Oct 09.

[CFE]

Production's supposed to start up in March, apparently.

[Nathan]

It can only be better than the original. Saw the 2nd part once, thought it was trash.

[The Apatow Crew]

Originally Posted by COMICFILMEXPERT

Production's supposed to start up in March, apparently.

Okay so if it does start in March. and filming takes like 2 months or so/ That leaves like 4 or maybe 5 months to do all that other stuff and then you gotta promote it and whatnot.

I don't see how they're gonna get this out by 2009. Unless they use alot of old footage from the first one he did.

[CFE]

Originally Posted by The Apatow Crew

Okay so if it does start in March. and filming takes like 2 months or so/ That leaves like 4 or maybe 5 months to do all that other stuff and then you gotta promote it and whatnot.

I don't see how they're gonna get this out by 2009. Unless they use alot of old footage from the first one he did.

Yeah but look at the 'Saw' films...those things aren't exactly expensive and they're hammered out in lightning time. They're also most likely edited during production...anything to make the release date.

Looks like Rob's taking the same approach.

[The Apatow Crew]

Originally Posted by COMICFILMEXPERT

Yeah but look at the 'Saw' films...those things aren't exactly expensive and they're hammered out in lightning time. They're also most likely edited during production...anything to make the release date.

Looks like Rob's taking the same approach.

But I would like to think this and the previous other one are bigger movies and have more stuff to handle then the saw films.

I mean that i think this will be a bigger budget movie then the saws. But maybe he has a editing trick his is producing sleeve, like you said.

[CFE]

Originally Posted by The Apatow Crew

But I would like to think this and the previous other one are bigger movies and have more stuff to handle then the saw films.

I mean that i think this will be a bigger budget movie then the saws. But maybe he has a editing trick his is producing sleeve, like you said.

While I agree that the 'Halloween' story and the Myers character are both larger in scope than the 'Saw' films...I never thought of the Halloween films as big budget spectacle.

There's a difference between 'cheap' and 'inexpensive' in my opinion, y'know?

The 'Halloween' films are inexpensive...but the 'Saw' films are 'cheap.'

[The Apatow Crew]

when i saw big budget i mean like 20 million or so. Cause most horror movies don't cost alot. I mean ones that don't have a lot of effects to it.

What was the budget of the first one he made? I couldn't find it.

I know it made like close to 80 million WW and close to 60 million Domestic.

[hitmanyr2k]

Originally Posted by DACrowe

Honestly, I did not hate Zombie's movie. It wasn't that good and pales deeply in the shadow of the John Carpenter classic from 1978. But I just am not full of venom to Zombie's movie. In the end it is still the best of the horror remakes to date and is better than pretty much all other movies with Michael Myers in it, except maybe H20.

I found most of the Halloween remake to be unwatchable. It's hard enough just to get past the first 10 minutes of the movie. Aside from Michael's mom the rest of Zombie's characters were a joke and I found every single teen (including Laurie) to be unlikeable nitwits. And I don't see how Zombie is going to take Michael in any kind of direction that's scary because he completely undercut Michael's danger factor by repeating the idiotic H5 scene of unmasking himself to reveal himself to Laurie. That was one of the dumbest parts because now if (for some ungodly reason) you want to watch the remake again you know Michael isn't chasing Laurie to kill her. He just wants a hug from his sister lol.