The folks over at Moviehole have scored a chat with screenwriter Jake Wade Wall (WHEN A STRANGER CALLS) in which he drops all sorts of interesting news concerning the new HALLOWEEN movie.
“I’ve been hired three different times for it, and at times it was really exciting, and at other times, it really wasn’t. Then, with the whole Miramax debacle, everything kind of stopped on their franchises for a while. Having said that, it looks like it’s finally set to go. I know that they’re in the process of nailing down a really big director…but I haven’t been able to figure out who it is yet.
So what’s it going to be about?
The self-confessed “amazing idea” he came up with for this latest film, “Halloween : The Missing Years”, involves filling in the mislaid days of Michael Myers formative years… “This is about Michael. There will be new characters – new kids. And it will be set around Michael’s real home ‘Smith’s Grove’, which is where the asylum was, some 150 miles away from Haddonfield”.
Read the rest of the interview for more on the project as well as his other works coming down the pike.
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