Status Update on Halloween 3D and My Bloody Valentine Sequel

We regularly receive Halloween 3D rumors and part of the confusion around this project's status is due to the fact that Dimension Films set a release date of October 2012 for the film. However, the release date announcement didn't mean that filming had started and the date can always be moved.

One of the people who has been working on a new Halloween pitch for the Weinsteins is Todd Farmer, who provided a status update on Halloween 3D and leaves little hope for those wanting a sequel to My Bloody Valentine:

My Bloody Valentine Sequel: “At the time there was a lot of discussion [about a sequel]. We designed it so that it would be – that we would leave it open. As a matter of fact, I assume at this point everyone listening has seen the movie, or should have seen the movie, but spoilers ahead: the main cast survives....

We did that on purpose. We set it up for a sequel, and we went into Lionsgate a couple of weeks before the release and we pitched the sequel, and they loved it. We had it all worked out: It was gonna take place minutes after the original. That was our plan and everybody loved it. Then the movie came out, and the movie was huge. It did great here, it did great overseas. Then the oddest thing happened… The guys in charge of Lionsgate didn’t want to do a sequel. They had their reasons; we heard dozens of reasons, I don’t know which reason is the real reason, but they didn’t want to do a sequel. And everywhere we went around town people just assumed that we would... They just didn’t want to do it.”

On Halloween 3D: “I don’t know what’s gonna happen with Halloween. We still talk to the Weinstein’s and the executives there often; pretty up in the air. Back in ’09 we wrote Halloween 3D, and we wrote it to be shot before Drive Angry. And it was decided that it was just impossible to do that financially,” Todd asserts before addressing that rumored seasonal date for a Halloween 3D release, “They probably need to start shooting. If they’re gonna make an October date, they probably need to make something happen. I’d love to see it happen. I don’t mind if it does with somebody else; just whoever does it… you know, it’s Halloween! It’s one of those movies that made me who I am.”

Todd Farmer and Patrick Lussier were also set to create a reboot of Hellraiser for Dimension Films, but that project fell through due to creative differences over a desired PG-13 rating from the Weinsteins. It's obvious that we haven't see the last of Michael Myers, but it's looking less likely that we'll see something this Halloween.