Continue the Halloween Franchise

Many fans want the franchise to continue. Rob Zombie's Halloween II (2009) made a decent enough profit ($39,318,589) to continue the franchise.

The Halloween franchise itself has the biggest following of any horror franchise. Horror movies as a whole are declining. Halloween is a franchise that has quality films and still scares new audiences to this day. Fans of the original films still crowd theatres to see the new films.

Todd Farmer has expressed great intrigue in the franchise and had an outline written of how to continue the story. Patrick Lussier expressed interest, but availability was the problem. The Halloween Message Board, www.ohmb.net/forums.php , has many threads dedicated to the opinions of the fans on whether or not they want the franchise to continue. Many of those fans DO want it to continue, but have different views on how the story should go from here. The theatrical ending of Halloween II (2009) has the potential to be continued from.

A reboot could be done with the Jamie Lloyd story, or something completely new. Actor Tom Atkins expressed interest in returning to the franchise and was reportedly in talks for a role. Many fans would love to see him back. The 2000's have brought in roughly $157,000,000 in box office revenue. This does not include DVD sales and merchandise.

The Halloween franchise is still a viable franchise and would bring in profit. Halloween hasn't seen a new release in over 3 years, and this would create more intrigue if a new film was released. If marketed correctly, with trailers and TV spots, it would reach out to millions of people. America is now technology based. Everyone watches TV and uses the internet. Scout Taylor-Compton expressed interest in returning if a good script was presented to her. Brad Dourif has apparently expressed interest as well. In 2007, Malcolm McDowell signed on for 3 films, according to horrorbid.com.

Halloween has reigned supreme for years. Moustapha Akkad expressed that he didn't want Halloween to end until number 22. What he was really saying is that he doesn't want the franchise to die for a long time. Halloween has Millions of fans. People have grown up on the original films, and new generations have grown up on the new films. Halloween is still a powerful enough franchise to bring in viewers and generate profit. If marketed correctly, written well, cast well, and given enough time to film and create, a new film could be a big success. Halloween II (2009) had a production period of 6 months, and was not marketed as well as it could have been. It didn't make a lot of money, but it made a profit.

Halloween (2007) was marketed well, and given 8 months of production time and went on to be the most successful Halloween film. There's a correlation between time and proper marketing and ending up with a successful film. Many people want to see the franchise continue.