Jamie Lee Curtis is done working on Halloween Kills

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

Director David Gordon Green's HALLOWEEN 2018 sequel HALLOWEEN KILLS began filming in Wilmington, North Carolina on September 12th, but Jamie Lee Curtis didn't join the production for her first day back in the role of franchise heroine Laurie Strode on October 8th… And nine days later, her work in Wilmington was already done.

Last night, Curtis took to her Instagram account to say so long to Wilmington. We don't know if she'll be called back for additional photography later on, but for now it appears that her work on HALLOWEEN KILLS is done.

Pictures from the set have revealed that at least some of Curtis's scenes take place at Haddonfield Memorial Hospital, a nod to the setting of 1981's HALLOWEEN II – even though HALLOWEEN 2018 and HALLOWEEN KILLS only acknowledge the events of the original HALLOWEEN and ignore the other sequels.

Curtis has said that HALLOWEEN KILLS will 

really unpack the first movie, bringing back all those characters whose lives were affected by what happened in 1978."

Those returning characters include Lindsey Wallace (played by Kyle Richards), Tommy Doyle (Anthony Michael Hall), Nurse Marion (Nancy Stephens), Lonnie Elam (Robert Longstreet), and Leigh Brackett (Charles Cyphers). 

Returning from HALLOWEEN 2018 are Judy Greer as Laurie's daughter Karen, Andi Matichak as Laurie's granddaughter Allyson, Dylan Arnold as Allyson's boyfriend / Lonnie's son Cameron, and Jibrail Nantambu as Julian. Child actress Victoria Paige Watkins is one of the new additions, playing a character named Christy. Original Michael Myers performer Nick Castle is also in the cast, possibly making another masked cameo like he did in HALLOWEEN 2018, and Myers is primarily being played by James Jude Courtney again.

Written by Green, Danny McBride, and Scott Teems, HALLOWEEN KILLS is scheduled to reach theatres on October 16, 2020.

Once KILLS wraps, there will be a "short breather" before filming begins on another sequel, HALLOWEEN ENDS. Scripted by Green, McBride, Paul Brad Logan, and Chris Bernier, that one is scheduled for an October 15, 2021 release. 

Malek Akkad is producing these films with Jason Blum and Bill Block. Green, McBride, and Curtis serve as executive producers alongside John Carpenter and Couper Samuelson. Carpenter will also be composing the score.