‘Halloween’: Jamie Lee Curtis Unmasks First Trailer At CinemaCon
April 25, 2018
‘Halloween’: Jamie Lee Curtis Unmasks First Trailer At CinemaCon
Jamie Lee Curtis was on hand during Universal’s CinemaCon session today to introduce the first-look trailer for the upcoming Halloween sequel. Curtis, who starred in the original 1978 movie, said when she was first approached for the new film, “I heard what they were thinking and I immediately said yes. First of all, except for Star Wars, I can’t think of another movie that the same actor playing the same character 40 years.”
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The trailer shown to the exhibitor crowd begins with a scene in a mental asylum where Mike Myers has been held. Cut to Curtis’ Laurie Strode, still traumatized years after her encounter with the masked serial killer. “I pray every night that he would escape… so I could kill him.” Of course he does, and Laurie goes on a spree to fulfill that desire.
David Gordon Green and Danny McBride penned the modern take on the franchise, which Green is directing, and horror master John Carpenter, who co-wrote and directed the original, is executive producing with Green and McBride via their Rough House Pictures.
Malek Akkad, whose Trancas International Films has produced the series since its inception, is producing along with Jason Blum’s Blumhouse.
Universal will release the pic October 19.