The second part of the movie, the Halloween 7 treatment that I had inadvertently written, takes place in Haddonfield where the murders are happening. Michael’ on this dark highway kind of idea, until they arrived back in Haddonfield. “ I was a little inspired by The Hitcher, so it becomes ‘Tommy vs. Tommy’s in a lot of trouble.’”įrom this point, Tommy would have gone on the lam, avoiding the authorities and Michael in equal measure. Then you hear sirens, and the implication is, ‘Oh, fuck. He finds a pool of blood coming out, and there’s Kara bent over, her throat slashed, reaching out for him, and the two children are gone. We hear a scream, and he goes running down into the restroom area. “As he’s making that call, Kara has taken the kids down into the restroom. Tommy runs to the same old fashioned phone booth to make a call to 911 and can’t get through. It’s the same kind of scene that we saw previously. In this ending, which I thought was a nice bookend, the heroes were going to stop at the same bus stop. There was a kind of coda to all of that, where they go to the same bus depot where we saw Jamie Lloyd make the phone call in the middle of the night, the night before. But that was the origin of my continuing story, above and beyond, Halloween 6.”įans will remember the end of Halloween 6 found survivors Tommy Doyle and Kara Strode making off into the night with Kara’s son and Jamie Lloyd’s baby, but Farrands reveals that his original ending had Kara Strode dying, with Tommy being blamed for her murder. In retrospect, had things been that way back then and they’d said, ‘Let’s do two’, we would’ve had a Halloween 6 and 7 and maybe closed out that story. I think this was before the days when they would greenlight back-to-back productions. “So the beginnings of this were that original Halloween 6 treatment that was just too big. And now we have kind of a roadmap for what 7 is going to be.’ He was, I think at the time, pretty serious about that. We need to cut this in half, and the first part of it should be 6. I thought, ‘Well, I’m either going to get this job, or I’m going to blow it.’ But he read it and said, ‘I think this is fantastic, but you have way too much here. “When he read it, I didn’t know what to expect in terms of his reaction. Farrands begins, noting how he tackled his original Halloween 6 treatment for franchise godfather Moustapha Akkad. “In my youthful naivete, exuberance, whatever you want to call it, I just wrote this epic thing where it was like 35 pages and it was just lots and lots of stuff going on,” Mr. Farrands, who discusses the origins of this intended eight installment, the story it would have told, and why it never came to pass. Penned by Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers screenwriter Daniel Farrands, Lord would have acted as a sequel to both Curse and H20, marrying the disparate continuities of each film while providing audiences with a shocking new take on The Shape. With this entry, we’re taking a look at Halloween 8: Lord of the Dead, the unproduced follow-up to 1998’s Halloween: H20. Here, we will be chatting with the creators of these unmade extremities to gain their unique insight into these follow-ups that never were, with the discussions standing as hopefully illuminating but undoubtedly painful reminders of what might have been. Welcome to Phantom Limbs, a recurring feature which will take a look at intended yet unproduced horror sequels and remakes – extensions to genre films we love, appendages to horror franchises that we adore – that were sadly lopped off before making it beyond the planning stages. an often painful sensation of the presence of a limb that has been amputated.