Since everything is going to TV now, Ash vs Evil Dead, upcoming Alien show, Blade Runner show etc, why not Halloween.
The lowdown: Get the guy who played Loomis from Kills, set the series a year after Halloween 78, following Loomis struggling to come to terms with letting Michael escape, gearing up for his return, paranoid, and on the hunt. Very character driven. Half the show is set in 79, and the other half is set in flashbacks to Michael’s time in the sanitarium. It skims over the first movie, and the flashback segments end with Michael stealing the mask, from his perspective, then it picks back up in 79 with Loomis and new characters, getting caught in the middle.
This would work best if Loomis was telling the story to someone in first person, perhaps a new sheriff, in a new town. Why limit Michael to Haddonfield, perhaps he left after his first defeat and is just looking for a new babysitter.
I’d watch the shit out of this personally, prefer it to this new trilogy. We need a good character driven slow burner again. I’d personally use the director of IT Follows, as his shooting style was very 78 in tone.
It would basically be a redemption series for Loomis, saving lives and stopping the evil force of nature he let slip away from him. A limited series of perhaps 8-10 episodes, wrap it all up and give fans a good treat revisiting that original world.
I’m against it, because if you ever make a show these days about a character, said character becomes a side character, just look at Kenobi, Mandolorian and Book of Bobba Fett, also She-Hulk
I think a TV show is a great idea. Your idea would definitely work for sure! My idea on the other hand would be similar to Tales From the Dark side or Twilight Zone, where you have a different story for each episode. However the shadow of Michael Myers would be cast over the whole series as sort of a legend among the various stories.
I would also set each story in a different time period. They don’t necessarily all have to take place in the same year. I feel like not only would this honor the Myers character since it would loom large as a legend over the series, but also runs with the anthology theme they tried with Halloween III.
Michael wouldn’t be in this series other than the legend of evil looming over it and perhaps you get flashbacks or dreams about him in various scenarios. The actual horror of each episode comes from various other sources causing terror. Each episode would fall on Halloween in a different year and time period, with a different evil.
There’s the series “Love, Death, Sex and Robots” that does exactly that idea you describe, it actually would make for a perfect anthology series if Halloween were to be a series
Before this recent trilogy, I had this thought as well and actually made an original TV trailer (no Halloween film footage) in premiere pro that was going to explore the origins of the mask. I also made a spoof party city Halloween commercial that advertised the silver shamrock masks. Unfortunately that PC quit working and I can’t figure out which component failed.
Well, Freddy’s Nightmares was hit or miss, but still generally accepted by fans. F13, which had zero Jason also seems to be well received. Had a pretty big part in Crystal Lake Memories, too. I never watched it, judged it as corny despite seeing a single episode, but now wonder if I’d enjoy it.
Anyway, it all depends, I guess. It could either be a train wreck or super witty and successful. I’d lean toward the former lol, but who knows.
Would be a great way to resurrect Carpenter’s anthology idea. Make each episode 1 hour, self-contained anthologies, all Halloween themed in some way. And with the era of streaming, you’d only need like 6 - 8 episodes per season.