Halloween Prequel - Thoughts

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Without laying out an entire plot in this message, I’m curios of everyone’s thoughts on not a reboot, but possibly a prequel in the future, specifically focusing around Michael’s time in the sanitarium.

I was first turned on to to this idea after reading the '78 novel, as there is a small section dedicated to what Michael was like while he was away. He definitely was a little s***.

Really interested in knowing what the community thinks of a film like that, and perhaps anyone’s input on what that might be like.

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i’ve thought of something like this before. i genuinely thought this idea could had been a flashback scene like the one we see in HKills. my only concern is how could it be a horror film? is the focus on Michael?

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I imagine it being based around Michael, more or less and what kind of patient he was, along with his relationship with Loomis. Maybe focus on a specific event that took place… or just the lead up to his escape… Either way, I’m sure the creep factor could totally be turned up with something like that.

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We got that in Rob Zombie’s remake, it could ideally work though, and the escape can be done as the end, there are far better ways to up the creepiness factor like the deleted animated pitch that was done several years ago

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A expansion of the cut alternate opening scene of Resurrection would be wicked imo. It was the family picnic and that kid that played Myers was 100% dead on

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Oh yeahh! That would be sweet. I think what I’m getting at is instead of someone kicking off another Myers movie in the future with him as an adult, there are so many directions and things they can explore with him as a kid.

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What’s this pitch you speak of?

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It’s been removed from youtube, but it was an animatic pitch showing how the hospital escape would have been done in modern day, and it was really well done

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I’ve heard this idea from someone else on here, and I think it could make for a really creepy show. Maybe just one good season of like ten episodes.
Young Michael growing up in Smith’s Grove, there could be all kinds of cool stories involving guards, other mental patients, doctors, etc.
Michael’s parents could even maybe get involved, but that should be executed differently than Zombie’s take.
It would have to be a whole new alternate universe though, as Dr. Loomis should have a big part in a show like that.
I could imagine all kinds of story arcs, like Loomis slowly understanding Michael just needs to be locked up forever, there could be other interesting mental patients with interesting/creepy stories, workers of the facility being creeped out by young Myers, Michael’s parents giving testimonies of his unusual behavior, idk lol.

Edit: I’m just thinking big and dreaming, but when the show finishes, it would be cool to get an actual movie for that universe’s “night he came home.”
A show by itself would be a good start, though, I honestly believe that any future Halloween retellings will have to be set within its own new universe either way.

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YESSS, man that’s so cool. And, that’s why I posted this- figured it’d be a fun way to get the creative juices flowing and to hear everyone’s take on it. So much that they could do with a short run like that.

Maybe even a believable supernatural aspect to it- for instance, something terribly is going wrong and all of the lights turn out. The guards go by Michael’s room and he’s gone. A split second later, the lights turn back on to reveal a super bloody dead body in some hallway and then Michael is back in his room.

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I think Michael’s parents should be ultra-straight laced, 50s upper middle class types. No skullfucking. They shouldn’t feature prominently - it should mostly be the Mike and Loomis show.

Hugh Grant as a possible Loomis.




He doesn’t look like Donald Pleasance, but he’s probably the best actor who might actually do it.


Maxim Swinton as Young Michael.

https://www.imdb.com/video/vi3050225689/?playlistId=nm8562769&ref_=nm_ov_vi

Atticus Mitchell as Young Adult Michael

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3620184/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm

Looks close enough - I’m more concerned about matching Tony Moran’s look than I am Will Sandin.

I’d take cues from asylum movies like The Exorcist III and Session 9. Michael shouldn’t kill anyone on screen, but there should be a few mysterious deaths at Smiths Grove, both of patients and staff, that attract outside attention.


It would have to be a short series, maybe seven or eight episodes with one season. Not enough material to maintain interest in it otherwise. Play it very straight, and very dark - not necessarily overt supernatural elements, but definitely psychological horror elements. I wouldn’t overtly reference Laurie as Michael’s sister; you want it to be able to function as a prequel to all or the (non-Zombie) timelines. Have the Myers family bring a baby with them into the asylum at the beginning, but don’t mention her after, and don’t list her in the credits. If you want her to be Laurie, then the series functions as a prequel to the Thorn or H20 timelines; if not, then it works as a prequel to the 2018 timeline, or just to the first movie. Maybe slight teases at possible future developments - say, when we meet Dr. Wynn, he’s a fairly sinister character wearing a black stetson hat - but nothing overt, tying it into any one continuity. The point is that the series should be vague enough to serve as a jumping off point to any of these

You might even cast Tyler Mane and James Jude Courtney as asylum guards, just for fun. Have Dick Warlock, George Wilbur, Don Shanks, Chris Durand and Brad Loree cameo as inmates, if they can do it.