By The previously announced “Halloween” television series will be a complete ‘creative reset’ according to Miramax’s Marc Helwig.
Miramax Television won a major bidding war for the television rights to the franchise in October last year with Malek Akkad’s Trancas International Films develop and co-producing a TV series based on the property.
The series is being pegged as a potential launcher for a new “Halloween” cinematic universe spanning film and television. Miramax already owns the film rights to the franchise, so it makes such possibilities easier.
Speaking with Deadline, Helwig offered an update on how it’s progressing and confirms it’s a full reboot with no ties to the recent film trilogy:
“The foundation of it is the original film, the John Carpenter movie, the characters of that film, and perhaps a group of characters that we haven’t really focused on that much in recent film versions or even in a number of them. It’s a creative reset completely and going back to the original film, as opposed to spinning out of any of the more recent film adaptations.”
No writer is yet attached to the work, but Helwig says the series is very much on the fast track and important to them:
“It’s a big priority for us. We’ve had lots of exciting conversations in recent months with a number of really talented people, and I think we’ll have a pretty good idea of what we’re going to be doing very soon. We’re hoping to lock down the creative team very soon.”
The “Halloween” franchise has seen thirteen films in total to date, and has already undergone several two creative reboots.
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