Halloween – Danny McBride Talks Making Michael Scary Again
Steve Barton
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The Halloween franchise has admittedly gone to some really weird places over the decades and as a result the character of Michael Myers had to adapt and keep moving like the shark that he is. Recently Danny McBride sat down with the Empire Film Podcast to talk about the reboot he’s working on with David Gordon Green.
“Look at where the Halloween franchise has gone. There’s a lot of room for improvement,” said McBride making a point that’s really hard to argue. “David and I are coming from it as, we are horror fans, and we are humongous fans of John Carpenter and of what he did with the original Halloween, so I think from watching this and being disappointed by other versions of this series, I think we’re just trying to strip it down and just take it back to what was so good about the original. It was just very simple and just achieved that level of horror that wasn’t corny and it wasn’t turning Michael Myers into some supernatural being that couldn’t be killed. That stuff to me isn’t scary. I want to be scared by something that I really think could happen.”
McBride continued, “I think it’s much more horrifying to be scared by someone standing in the shadows while you’re taking the trash out as opposed to someone who can’t be killed pursuing you.”
In all fairness, there was nothing supernatural about Rob Zombie’s interpretation of Michael Myers. He was as scary as they come and that’s probably the only thing that Zombie got right about the franchise. Hopefully we’ll see a return by Tyler Mane who kicked a lot of ass as the character.
John Carpenter, who may also be providing the film’s score, will executive produce with Malek Akkad producing for Trancas and Jason Blum producing for Blumhouse. Gordon Green and McBride will also executive produce under their Rough House Pictures banner.
Halloween is expected to return to theaters October 19, 2018.
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