Tommy Lee Wallace and Universal meet to discuss continuing the legacy started by John Carpenter’s Halloween.
TLW: So I got this idea for a movie right?
UNI: Absolutely, Halloween was one of the biggest hits to date, people really seem to like horror movies and being scared, how do you plan to continue and improve this franchise?
TLW: Well, we can call it Halloween 3 I guess
UNI: So how are you bringing Michael Myers back to life after Halloween 2?
TLW: Oh, well he’s going to play a reduced role in this one and we are going to focus more on the public.
UNI: Interesting. So this will be from the perspective of Laurie and Dr. Loomis. Did we get Jamie Lee Curtis back?
TLW: Haha well this is taking place in a different town with different people. The full title is called: Halloween III Season of the Witch.
UNI: So this is about witches now?
TLW: Actually, there’s no real witch in the movie, it’s a working title we’re thinking of changing it before we release it.
UNI: So no one from the previous successful films is in this one, there’s no witches at all but we’re still going with Halloween 3 Season of the Witch?
TLW: Well I guess I can add a witch mask or something but hear me out. A doctor has a patient die under strange circumstances and he along with the man’s daughter try to unravel a rich man’s sick plot to destroy a lot of people.
UNI: So the doctor decides to focus on this one patient’s death and risks all to help a stranger go on a dangerous deadly mission for revenge? Makes sense. Female empowerment is big these days.
TLW: Well, actually every single woman we see on screen is going to get killed, some will be shown crying but mostly all will die. I’m also playing around with the idea to kill a child on screen. But, but.....in a way you haven’t seen before. Bugs and snakes.
UNI: Attacked by wild animals? I think that’s been done.
TLW: Not like this it hasn’t! See the kids wear these masks with a tag that lights up and explodes if you tamper with it. Anyway, all three major TV stations will broadcast a show and then BOOM! Dead kids everywhere, ha.
UNI: Mr. Wallace, why are you smiling at that? How do the bugs and snakes appear out of nowhere?
TLW: What? Haha. Anyway, the doctor and the lady try to stop the evil man from broadcasting the signal but it’s not that easy, he has a bunch of cyborg robots working for him. Somehow they moved Stonehenge but I’m not really going to focus on that. Robots!
UNI: Why does a man who makes magic masks have robot slaves?
TLW: I don’t know but when you punch them, organic peanut butter comes out. Ewww!
UNI: Tell us more about this doctor’s quest.
TLW: Well he goes to the mask factory which has literally cameras everywhere but somehow he escapes capture, walks around the factory without being seen, saves the girl and drives away. Oh yeah, he kills that dumb lady he rescued too.
UNI: So to recap, this movie is called Halloween III Season of the Witch but it has nothing to do with the Halloween franchise or witches. Instead, it deals with a man who decides to sell magic masks to children so he can kill them all by having bugs and snakes come out of their heads somehow while watching television. The heroes are a doctor who moonlights as a military strategist and a brave woman who’s father dies but she dies in the end just like every woman in this movie. There are killer cyborg robots who moved Stonehenge but can be destroyed. Surely this will have some sort of payoff and this doctor saves the day?
TLW: No not at all. We don’t really see what happens in the end, I’m just ending the movie riiight before the conclusion so that way the audience can DRAW THEIR OWN conclusion. Get it? Between you and me though, the kids are all dead.
UNI: Well Mr. Wallace, we at Universal don’t really care much about our horror properties, never have. Remember Frankenstein, Dracula and the Wolfman? Probably not, the money is in merchandising and your movie has merchandising written all over it. We can mass produce these kids masks and make millions. For legal purposes however, we’re going to need you to add about 10 seconds of footage from the original Halloween. Then you can use the name. Other than that, it sounds fantastic and easy to follow. Congratulations.
TLW: Thank you. Also, I hate the Irish.
UNI: We actually have a jingle for that.

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