Halloween Ends to Start With a Huge Time Jump, Says David Gordon Green

Editor s note: The following contains spoilers for Halloween Kills. If you ve seen Halloween Kills, you know it picks up immediately where David Gordon Green s 2018 Halloween left off, which left the creative team with one massive Laurie Strode problem. Jamie Lee Curtis iconic slasher survivor had just taken a fairly large kitchen knife straight to the guts, and the genuinely graphic surgery to save her life in Halloween Kills means Laurie realistically needs to be confined to a hospital bed for the entire film. It s a bit of a bummer, and Green seems well aware of it. When Collider s Steve Weintraub sat down with the filmmaker to discuss Halloween Kills, Green revealed its sequel, the trilogycapper Halloween Ends, has a builtin way to include Laurie: a fouryear time jump. There is a time jump. It gets back onto a contemporary timeline, so it ll jump four years, Green told us, noting that Halloween Ends heads into production in January of 2022. The