Jamie Lee Curtis is returning to play the iconic Laurie Strode in the Halloween franchise.
Universal Pictures also set Oct 19, 2018, as the release date for what it’s calling the final film in the Halloween.
Curtis’ character will have a final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.
The Halloween film franchise was launched by John Carpenter and Moustapha Akkad in 1978, and has led to 10 films that have grossed nearly US$400mil worldwide.
Carpenter said: “Thirty-eight years after the original Halloween, I’m going to help to try to make the 10th sequel the scariest of them all.”
The original Halloween was directed by Carpenter from his own script about Myers as he stalks and kills teenage babysitters on Halloween night. The film begins with six-year-old Michael killing his teenage sister on Halloween in 1963; he escapes 15 years later from a sanitarium and stalks Strode and her friends as they babysit.
Curtis also played Strode in Halloween II (1981), Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998), and Halloween: Resurrection (2002). “Same porch. Same clothes. Same issues. 40 years later. Headed back to Haddonfield one last time for Halloween. Release date 10/19/18,” Curtis tweeted about her return last week. – Reuters
