Will Halloween Ends be the end of Laurie Strode? Jamie Lee Curtis thinks so
The original final girl might be making her final Halloween appearance soon
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There comes a time when every teen must grow up, leave their babysitting jobs behind, and tell their murderous, serial-killing brothers that enough is enough. Jamie Lee Curtis, who’s played Laurie Strode in five Halloween movies thus far (and two more on the way), might have had it with jack-o’-lanterns and William Shatner masks. The iconic horror movie actor says that the third part in the recent Halloween trilogy might be her series swan song.
With Halloween Kills, the second part in David Gordon Green and Danny McBride’s Halloween reboot trilogy, coming this fall, Curtis and the rest of the team are already talking about their finale, Halloween Ends. “I would say, given what I know about the next movie,” Jamie Lee Curtis said to Total Film, “I think it will be the last time that I will play [Laurie Strode].” A fair assessment of this statement is that Laurie dies, which Laurie’s already done in the series. In Halloween 4: The Return Of Michael Myers, it’s revealed that Laurie died following the events of Halloween 2, a plot point that was reconned in the first series reboot, Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later. Honestly, the Halloween timelines are as confusing as The Terminator’s. It’s even hard to track all the reboots. Is Halloween 3: Season Of The Witch technically a reboot? Then there are the Rob Zombie movies. Don’t worry about that now because Curtis says that’s not the case.
“And I’m not saying something like, ‘Oh, because I die!’ It’s nothing to do with that. I’m talking about emotionally what they have constructed. I think it will be a spectacular way to end this trilogy.”
It’s a little early to start speculating about what happens in Halloween Ends, considering we haven’t even seen Halloween Kills yet. But this hasn’t stopped David Gordon Green from hyping his conclusion. “I get engaged by doing something different,” he said. “If I was just going to be repetitive, I would hand the reins off to someone else. When you have that opportunity within an established franchise, it’s really fun to think about how you can show different tones and perspectives and evolve.”
In the meantime, we’ll just have to wait and see how good old Michael Myers is resurrected and killed in the upcoming Halloween Kills. However, one thing seems clear: Laurie will take up the final girl mantel twice more. Unless, of course, she too has her brother’s ability to cheat death, which wouldn’t surprise us at all.
Halloween Kills stalks into theaters on October 15.
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If the trailer for H Kills and the last movie are anything to go by, I really fucking hope so.
her death was retconned, but wasn’t the brother stuff retconned too?
Yep, the sibling connection is gone in the new films.
Well there’s still two more movies, maybe they’re waiting until the 2nd movie to make the brother connection legit again.(I actually like Michael is Laurie’s brother idea, yes he kills a lot of people but he’s realllly obsessed with her). And even though H20 was blasted out of continuity the moment when she kills him via ambulance/tree/fireax was cathartic as hell. Hallwoeen 2018 had a similarly cathartic final brawl too)
By my reckoning there are three different strands of timeline for JLC’s Laurie Strode.Halloween 1, 2 and 4.Halloween 1, 2, H20 and Halloween Resurrection.
Halloween, Halloween, Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends.Seeing as Hollywood execs can never have too much of a good/bad thing, it’s not that unlikely we won’t end up with another iteration.Failing that we just plow on with sequels to Rob Zombie’s version.
It’s 1, 2, 4, 5 & Curse.
Well gosh, let’s hope that’s true and they never made another tired-ass Halloween movie again. I’m happy Jamie can keep cashing checks, but we’re at Rise of Skywalker levels of craptastic here, just let it go.
Not even close. At least the new Halloween films aren’t going for woke, unlike Star Wars.
That’s from a different Disney franchise, Frozen.
Craptastic is fine for Jamie. She’s on that Activia diet don’t y’know!?
This digital color-grading is getting absolutely wild. I mean it’s been wild for a while but holy cow – a bright, consuming orange blaze and the firefighter’s torch casts a blue beam? C’mon.
Halloween EndsFor real this time. Honest!
Friday the 13th The Final Chapter agrees.
As does The Final Friday!
Now I’m predicting she’ll die in Kills and only appear in a flashback or something in Ends.
David Gordon Green has had such a weird career path: esteemed indie dramas; stoner comedies; gripping Oscar-baiting dramas no one saw; journeyman TV director; and now horror retcon sequels (in addition to Halloween–if IMDB is to be believed, anyway–Hellraiser and The Exorcist.)
Ahhh Halloween, Hellraiser and The Exorcist: 3 movie franchises with maybe 2 good movies each
Sure, until she comes back in Halloween 12: The Halloweenining
Surely they’d to try and cash in on IT vibes and name it Halloween 12: The Hallowtweening