Halloween Ends: David Gordon Green on the film’s setting and ending

Halloween Kills (read our review HERE), the middle installment of director David Gordon Green’s Halloween sequel trilogy, is now in theatres and available to watch on the Peacock streaming service. So now we look ahead to the final entry in the trilogy, which is titled Halloween Ends and scheduled to reach theatres on October 14, 2022. Halloween Ends starts filming in January – and during a couple recent interviews, Green revealed when the film will be set and teased that it’s going to have a twist ending.

Halloween 2018 (watch that at THIS LINK) and Halloween Kills take place on the same night, which might lead you to expect Halloween Ends will pick up right where Kills ends – but that won’t be the case. Speaking with Uproxx, Green revealed that there will be a four year time jump between the films.

DGG: It jumps into a contemporary timeline. So we go from two episodes that are the same night in 2018. And then we’ll get up to speed with … It’ll take place the time of its release.

Uproxx: So do you incorporate things that have happened in the real world since then, like what we’re going through now? Would that be part of it?

DGG: Yeah.

Uproxx: I guess there are going to be more masks around.

DGG: So if you think about it, I mean, where we’re leaving these characters on Halloween 2018, the world is a different place. So not only do they have their immediate world affected by that trauma, having time to process that trauma – and that’s a specific and immediate traumatic event in the community of Haddonfield. But then they also had a worldwide pandemic and peculiar politics and another million things that turned their world upside down.

In our own interview with Green (watch it HERE), he mentioned that John Carpenter hasn’t read the latest draft of Halloween Ends “with our new ending”, and while talking to The Hollywood Reporter he referred to this “new ending” as a “twist ending”:

[Halloween Ends is] very different in tone from Halloween (2018) and Halloween Kills, and I think that’s part of my self-indulgence. I very often jump around in genres and explore different themes and characters through movies. I just came up with a new twist ending on the ending that existed a couple weeks ago, and that’s something that only I hold the piece of paper that has those words on it. So no spoilers here.”

Green also described Halloween Ends to us as a “coming of age” story.

Knowing there’s going to be a four year time jump between movies makes me wonder what Michael Myers is going to be doing during his time off. Is he captured again? Will he go off into the wilderness and grow a bushy beard while his mask falls apart, like in Rob Zombie’s Halloween II (pictured below)? We’ll find out next October.