Jamie Lee Curtis Back for 'Halloween' Reboot 

Jamie Lee Curtis is returning to play the iconic Laurie Strode in the “Halloween” franchise.

Universal Pictures also set Oct. 19, 2018, as the release what’s calling the final film in the “Halloween” series.

The horror movie is being produced by Trancas International Films, Blumhouse Productions, and Miramax.

Curtis’ character will have a final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.

John Carpenter will executive produce and serve as creative consultant on this film, joining leading horror producer Jason Blum, who’s behind “Get Out,” “Split,” and “The Purge” and “Paranormal Activity” franchises.

David Gordon Green is directing from a script he co-wrote with Danny McBride. Malek Akkad, whose Trancas International Films has produced the series since its inception, will produce. Green and McBride will executive produce under their Rough House Pictures banner. Green’s directing credits include “Pineapple Express” and “Our Brand Is Crisis.”

Carpenter came on board the project in May, 2016. The “Halloween” film franchise was started in part by Carpenter and Moustapha Akkad in 1978, and has led to 10 films that have grossed nearly $400 million worldwide.

Carpenter said at the time, “38 years after the original ‘Halloween,’ I’m going to help to try to make the 10th sequel the scariest of them all.”

The original “Halloween” was directed by Carpenter from his own script about Michael Myers as he stalks and kills teenage babysitters on Halloween night. The film begins with six-year-old Michael killing his teenage sister on Halloween in 1963; he escapes 15 years later from a sanitarium and stalks Laurie Strode  and her friends as they babysit.

Malek Akkad is the son of Moustapha Akkad, who exec produced the original “Halloween” and produced several of the sequels. Malek Akkad produced three sequels, including 1998’s “Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later,” 2007’s “Halloween” and 2009’s “Halloween II.”

Curtis also played Laurie Strode in “Halloween II” (1981), “Halloween H20: 20 Years Later” (1998) and “Halloween: Resurrection” (2002). She tweeted about her return on Friday —

"Same porch. Same clothes. Same issues. 40 years later. Headed back to Haddonfield one last time for Halloween. Release date 10/19/18." pic.twitter.com/IvptiZctyw

— Jamie Lee Curtis (@jamieleecurtis) September 15, 2017

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i love jamie lee… she is good in everything she does.. best of luckt deare. ive seen every movie more than once. shes a A+10 in my book

What Ghost says down below. Jaime Lee Curtis’s character Laurie Strode was killed in Halloween Resurrection. Within the first 10-15 minutes of the movie, Laurie is locked up in an insane asylum and Michael comes to find her and ends up stabbing her to death. This new Halloween movie needs to just be it’s own thing with no ties or connections with the previous films. If Jaime Lee Curtis wants to come back for another Halloween movie that’s fine but she should play a different character, not Laurie Strode since one her character already died and two this movie is suppose to be reboot of the franchise. Me personally, I haven’t entirely thought about not watching it because John Carpenter is going to be involved in making it but as the standard goes, most movie remakes and reboots including horror are not always as good as the originals.

John Carpenter’s “Halloween” is a masterpiece. It can’t be topped.

Um…she already died in Resurrection. Good luck with this. Lol

Hey Ghost too bad this movie is not taking place after Resurrection it’s before it

Ms Curtis is intelligent enough to have script approval. I hope.

I grew up seeing the Halloween movies. And I agree that 1 and 2 are the only good ones compared to 4+. (3 was my fave). And the gore was minimal and not sickening. Today’s movies are all about traumatizing the viewer for profit. If they do that with the new Halloween movie, WE won’t be seeing it. Jamie Lee or not.

I think more Halloween alumni should return #halloween5 #billylives #imavailable