John Carpenter Don't Care About Halloween Franchise Legacy

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The 'success' of “Halloween Ends” has put Michael Myers and Jamie Lee Curtis back in the spotlight, but it also provided horror fans with an opportunity to pause and appreciate John Carpenter. While Carpenter is no longer at the helm of the series (though he contributed music to all of David Gordon Green’s reboots), many cinephiles will always see him as the face of the slasher franchise he created.

In a new interview with Vulture, the unfiltered director and composer was asked about his thoughts on the “Halloween” franchise. As it turns out, he doesn’t have many of them.

“I don’t care,” Carpenter said when asked about the franchise’s legacy. “I really don’t care.”

The filmmaker explained that, despite creating Michael Myers, he doesn’t feel much ownership over the other films featuring the iconic slasher villain.

“The ‘Halloween’ movie I love the most is the one I made back in 1978, the one I directed,” he said. “Others are other people’s visions. That’s the way it goes. That’s what happens when you give up. I didn’t want to direct sequels. I didn’t think there was story left. Boy, was I wrong, huh?”

While Carpenter appreciates the money he receives when people remake his films, he doesn’t spend much time thinking about the quality of those remakes.

“There are two kinds of remakes for me,” he said. “One is where I’m the originator of the material. I wrote the screenplay. Two: It was an assignment from the studio. ‘We want you to do this.’ If it’s an assignment from the studio, they don’t pay me when they do a remake. They own the material. If I’ve generated the screenplay, they have to pay me. That’s the kind of sequel I like. My movie exists. Make your own. You want to pay me a bunch of bucks, fine. Have a great time.”

https://www.indiewire.com/2022/10/john-carpenter-doesnt-care-about-halloween-remakes-1234777278/

 

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[RahrahWitch 6,985]

The 2018 Halloween was a great sequel to the 1978 version and they should've left it there, Kills and Ends where soooo messy 

[weed 73,926]

the way I kinda thought John Carpenter and John Waters were the same person lol.. 

[Ricardo 7,884]

we can tell with the garbage mess that H: Ends was 

[ProfessionalClown 10,647]

1 hour ago, Ricardo said:

we can tell with the garbage mess that H: Ends was 

I fr think ends should’ve been the second movie. Imagine having Corey be a copycat killer years after the first one and Michael disappears after killing the firemen. They blame Corey for the kills Michael is actually doing so Corey ends up becoming a killer. Brings back characters through the story and all that. Then in the end, it’s kind of a Corey vs Michael for who gets to Laurie and Corey gets killed, Michael kills Judy Greer instead of Laurie, and boom. Makes more sense. Corey was a good fit as a killer but got too arrogant so Michael would have to humble him.

[jacs vs looser 4,308]

2 hours ago, RahrahWitch said:

The 2018 Halloween was a great sequel to the 1978 version and they should've left it there, Kills and Ends where soooo messy 

I haven't watched HK and HE (not planning to either) but I agree that the 2018 film was great and it felt like there was no need for anything more. 

[Galagala 4,611]

2018 film is my fav. I prefer it even to the original one.

[bionic 50,107]

2 hours ago, ProfessionalClown said:

I fr think ends should’ve been the second movie. Imagine having Corey be a copycat killer years after the first one and Michael disappears after killing the firemen. They blame Corey for the kills Michael is actually doing so Corey ends up becoming a killer. Brings back characters through the story and all that. Then in the end, it’s kind of a Corey vs Michael for who gets to Laurie and Corey gets killed, Michael kills Judy Greer instead of Laurie, and boom. Makes more sense. Corey was a good fit as a killer but got too arrogant so Michael would have to humble him.

They should've had the two stories of Corey and Michael better interlinked. Have Corey's story start on the same 2018 Halloween night as Halloween Kills, change the story so its not clear to viewer whether Corey 'killed' the kid he was babysitting or whether Michael invaded the house and killed him (does he really not kill kids? this kid was asking for it...) so either way Corey is ostracized by the town as either a murderer or a coward. Corey insists he's innocent and in classic Halloween fashion becomes obsessed with MM and wants to track him down to prove his innoncence...

 

idk i liked ends but michael didn't play much of a role at all and it could've been done much betta

[ProfessionalClown 10,647]

27 minutes ago, bionic said:

They should've had the two stories of Corey and Michael better interlinked. Have Corey's story start on the same 2018 Halloween night as Halloween Kills, change the story so its not clear to viewer whether Corey 'killed' the kid he was babysitting or whether Michael invaded the house and killed him (does he really not kill kids? this kid was asking for it...) so either way Corey is ostracized by the town as either a murderer or a coward. Corey insists he's innocent and in classic Halloween fashion becomes obsessed with MM and wants to track him down to prove his innoncence...

 

idk i liked ends but michael didn't play much of a role at all and it could've been done much betta

I really liked ends but not as a trilogy ender tbh. It really wouldve worked if fleshed out more. Was the most interesting aspect of all 3 movies imo

 

[SpiritBunny 3,488]

The 1978 is just so much better than any of its sequels so I can't blame him.