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UPDATED!! Did Jamie Lee Curtis Already Finish HALLOWEEN: THE HOMECOMING'!
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Hey, everyone. "Moriarty" here with some Rumblings From The Lab.
Not long after this report went up, I got a quick note from the folks over at HalloweenMovies.com stating emphatically that Jamie Lee hasn't started shooting her role yet. In fact, there's a chance they may have some stills from her first day of work later this week. Thanks for the prompt response, and stick this one in the "why the hell would you say that?" file.
I got the following letter on Friday, and started poking around to see what I could turn up. Right now, I'd treat what "The Woodsman" has to say as rumor. I will say this... his description of Laurie Strode's role in the film is correct as of the latest drafts, so take that for what it's worth. I have a feeling that we'll have trouble getting any official word on this one, but we'll see...
Recently, I've been hearing a lot about the HALLOWEEN 8 casting of Jamie Lee Curtis. Here is the real deal, and be warned, there are slight spoilers ahead...
Although a press release went out this week announcing the "recent" signing of Curtis to the project, her small contribution to the film has long been in the can. When producer/series rights controller Moustafa Akkad approached Curtis about HALLOWEEN H20, the actress agreed to make the film with the condition that she get to kill Michael Myers in the film. In short, Curtis wanted this to be the final HALLOWEEN - a bookend to the first two films in the series. However, Akkad would not agree to this as the HALLOWEEN films are his basic source of income. So screenwriter Kevin Williamson, who wanted very badly to work with Curtis on the project, conceived a way to allow her character to "kill" Myers that pleased both Akkad and Curtis. In this idea, Myers would be allowed to return in the eighth installment of the film and Curtis would
finally have her out from the HALLOWEEN series...
Although the details of the story are a bit sketchy - I knew this two years ago - the film picks up right where H20 left off. Curtis has somehow cut the head off of the wrong guy (!) and Myers is actually driving the ambulance. Within the first two minutes of the film, Curtis' character is killed by Michael. This was intended to shock audiences in much the same way PSYCHO did when Janet Leigh - Jamie Lee Curtis' mother - died early in the film. In fact, Steve Miner directed the opening scenes of HALLOWEEN 8 after wrapping H20. So, in short, Jamie Lee Curtis is not do any new scenes; her scenes have been completed for a long, long time. Although Miner and Williamson's contributions will not be credited, the opening scenes were written by Williamson and helmed by Miner. After those opening scenes, it will apparently be business as usual for Michael Myers.
Yours truly,
The Woodsman
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They should've stopped at first
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Could they not just leave it with the first one? An all time classic that does not deserve to be categorized with the complete arse that the sequels are...?
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May 15, 2001 3:10:00 AM CDT
Just when you thought it was safe to enter the video store...
by glynyfaron
this sorry movie limps on to the shelf. This series really has to stop NOW. Curtis should have walked away a long time ago.
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May 15, 2001 4:15:34 AM CDT
I'm really surprised she'd let her character be killed by Myers,
by lance rock
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Jamie Lee begins filming tomorrow (May 16). Your scooper is full of horseshit.
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The plaudits lauded on H20, were frankly, OTT. The film was popcorn, and not very tasty popcorn at that. But, having said that, it did round off the series, even if said series ran out of steam a LONG time ago. Now we are effectively starting a new round of cheap, slack arse sequels... just like the first time round and just what nobody needs / wants / deserves. Bollocks to it I say!
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IMHO
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Just how much acid must be consumed in order for this shit to be taken seriously? WTF is going on here!?!? This is just further proof that Williamson is a hack. The only way I will watch this impending abortion of a film is if that hottie from Boston Pubic gets buck wild nasty on film. Although it is good to see that Myers was finally able to find steady work as an ambulance driver. I'm gonna go lick a toad.
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he'll have to wait till Irwin Yablins makes another film then - that's who he stole the series off in the first place
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That is the worst, shitty plot line I have ever heard! Everyone knows that Michael Myers did in H20-it was clearly him. To go back on that know is increadibly stupid and cheesy. I cheets the audience completly. Do we really need another Halloween movie? Probably just like we really need to see Friday the 13th part X or Freddie vs. Jason. They're all so completly stupid. Just let these old evil villians die already! God forbid anyone should try and come up with something new!
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I hope this is lie, if not then
I will have to do some thing crazy! I would not watch Holloween any ways, unless Jamie-lee takes her top off, because I have thing for mature women with hard bodies! I am sorry, I am drooling now! I have to go! -
I read an early draft of this film called Halloween: 3/17, in which Michael Myers fights The Leprechaun. It takes place in Area 51 and at the end, Leprechaun takes Myers' severed head into space on a captured alien ship from Roswell and goes to his home planet of Shroom. At the end, the cast of Survivor 2 vote the Leprechaun off the planet and Jamie Lee Curtis has dinner at Applebees. They should have made that movie...
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...consider the fact that BUSTA RYMES will be playing a major character in the film.
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May 15, 2001 9:47:10 AM CDT
This will suck more than anything has ever sucked before.
by martinblank
At the time 'Halloween Water' came out, Jamie Lee gave like 6,000 interviews saying the same blahblahblah, 'I wanted to give something back to the genre that started my career,' 'We wanted to do something special for the 20th anniversary,' etc. I'm sure she probably thought it would be a final standoff between Laurie and Michael. She must be kinda pissed now that (A) there will be *more* shitty movies, (B) she has to come back for one more, and (C) if this is true, Michael kills Laurie. WTF? So what now, in 2008 she comes back for 'Halloween H30'? Moustapha Akkad: 'Oh, the woman we saw Michael killing wasn't the REAL Laurie Strode...' *** Not that any of the sequels were great, but at least 2,4,5, and 6 had Donald Pleasence. Without him it's nothing. Period.
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For those of you who think I was joking about this, I do know that Miramax was negotiating with at LEAST the final four Survivors from Survivor 2. I also saw some concept art for the poster which showed Leprechaun in the process of taking off the Mike Myers mask and he was saying, "Trick or Treat!": And up at the top, it read: THIS YEAR, HALLOWEEN COMES IN MARCH! I guess they were going to release it on St. Patrick's day, 2002. Oh, and Candyman was going to have a cameo.
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That one sucks too much for me to dignify it further by wasting any more time commenting !
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...feel sphincter weakening... ...diseased wastes fill my colon!!...GODDAMN YOU HOLLYWOOD WHORES!!!...retching, heaving spasm against the toxins...god no........control CONTROL breathe, ride the......argh!.... wave!......fuckers!............no use nouse....anus puckering PUCKERING....ahhh GOD YES!----I SPEW ON YOUR FOUL SCRIPT! Mighty torrents wash away the stench of hackery.......
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Halloweenmovies.com responded to me when I asked them about this story. They claim Jamie Lee Curtis started filming "today." Although their website said it would be tommorrow
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I just kinda dug the wicked little smile Strode gave Meyers when she was bootin' it down the highway then ramed his ass into a tree and choped the fucker's head off. that was pretty hardcore. Too bad they're fucking up what was a fairly badass way to end the series. for my money, the story goes H1, H2 & water.
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Her career must really be in the shitter for her to do another piece of crap Halloween movie. Obviously the cell phone comercials aren't paying the bills. She must have been counting on doing True Lies 2, and since it ain't happening she's getting desperate. She should just forget the Hallo-crap and show her magnificent rack to Playboy. They'd probably pay better, and people would respect her more.
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What ambulance was michale meyers driving? As i recall, she got into a van that had his body in it. and if it was somebody else wouldnt the person have woken up a little bit more differntly then the typical way in whice he gets up after being hit or shot. And another thing mister bullshiter, why is it that when she slamed on the brakes and he flew out of the van instead of him standing there, why wouldnt he just taken off his mask. i know that if i was thrown out of a windshield and had a mask on that wasn't mine, the first thing i would do iwould be to take it off. But thats just my opinion. Email me back if you have a better one.
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You see, now a few things stood out to me during H20. Like the fact, that "Michael" didn't have any burn marks at any point when his hands were ungloved. Perhaps this was intentional? Maybe the plot of 8 will actually claim that it was NEVER Michael through the whole of H20. That's a little more believable than that he somehow switched places with the driver without the hundred odd witnesses noticing. But who knows... in 5 they actually bothered to show Michael slipping out the cracks of the mine before the dynamite exploded. I always thought it was unnecessary. He survived the damn fire; he'd have survived the explosion. Shit... I just had a thought: what if they argue he survived having his HEAD CHOPPED OFF!? Oh God, I don't think I could take that.
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The posts should have stopped with Deadhead. I cannot believe this many people actually saw H20. You should be ashamed, but I'm guessing you all think Wes Craven is some kind of genius, too.
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h20 was the perfect ending to the series ...i actually enjoyed it ... the heroine won in the end ...finally faced all her demons and won.... now your telling us that cause some rich old bastard that makes his money of off someone elses creation cant make his lexus payment or will have to cut his weekend trips to catalina ... hes going to screw it all up ?
ever hear of investments ?
what about that program on tv ...buying real estate with no money down ... i mean hell if he is supid enuff to believe that anyone will want to see this peice of garbage then im sure hed believe that you can buy property with no money down ...
ehh well its worth a try ... it has a 60 day money back guarantee ... unlike making a shitty movie ..
and really though why drag this on with out donald pleasance and jamie lee curtis dying in the first minuite in the movie ... whats the damn point ???
im shocked jamie lee agreed to do this ... oh well i suppose we can pretened that this one dosent exist the same way we pretend that 3-6 dont exist either ...
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