Considering how the last one ended there's only two things you can do to continue the franchise: you either do another remake or you resurrect Myers through supernatural means finally confirming the obvious that he's some kind of demi-god zombie-thing. Or you go full supernatural like one of the ideas for Halloween 4 where the spirit of Myers would haunt the town.
Halloween 3 Part 2
Halloween: Resurrection 2
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I remember seeing one good idea, I think it was either here or on 4chan. The basic idea is it takes place after Halloween Ends, and the murders have started up again. A man in Michael's mask is going around butchering people. Everyone saw Michael die. They even burnt his remains and scattered the ashes to the winds. It can't be him. Yet there's this hulking murderer with freakish strength and a refusal to speak. In a sort of purposeful non-ending, no one figures out who it is. No motive is ever given. Once Halloween ends, the killings just stop, and the mysterious figure, The Boogeyman, simply vanishes.
That only works if you give it a significant amount of time for audiences of CURRENT YEAR to forget. Rob Zombie's Halloween 2 came out in 2009 and then we got the reboot in 2018. Roughly a decade seems to be the sweet spot.
As iconic as Michael Myers is to the slasher genre, he seems to be hindered by having either Laurie Strode or Dr. Loomis as an adversary. The exception was Halloween: Resurrection and we know how that turned out. At this point, I would go with making him a supernatural force he was initially characterized as by John Carpenter. Based on the ending of the original, have Michael's disappearance mean he is now the literal boogeyman of Haddenfield that appears on Halloween night, have the newest installment take place at least five years later if Hollywood writers are still milking the nostalgia of the 1980s, and have a new cast of characters instead of bringing back Laurie and/or Loomis
Yeah, I don't think there's much to do with Laurie anymore. And it's not like she was ever exactly that interesting. She was just in a very popular slasher is all.
And they just called it Loomis.
Blumhouse has the kid that became Son of Michael, so they can contiue with his series as the next Myers and I guess Miramax will do what New Line did. They'll drop the Halloween name and use the Michael Myers name just like they did with Jason Voorhees. Maybe they'll do that cult of thorn backstory. Who knows.
I don't blame you. I despise Ends a lot. It makes Kills look like Citizen Kane by comparison
That's true because Halloween Ends is proof that whatever low expectations you have can go even lower
