Halloween 3D Gets A Release Date (Update: Minor plot detail)

I’m not sure how this is possible. Oh, behold the wonders of Hollywood! Halloween 3D has been given an official release date – October 26, 2012. I’m not sure how this is entirely possible seeing how a script isn’t even on the table yet. Patrick Lussier (My Bloody Valentine) is apparently tapped to direct and edit the film, with Todd Farmer (Jason X) rumored to be creating the film’s characters. The only details on casting, remember – rumors, are that Scout Taylor-Compton will return as Laurie Strode and Brad Dourif as Sheriff Lee Bracket.

Also, another Dimension Films and Weinstein Company sequel, Scary Movie 5 has received an official relate date of April 20, 2012.

Are you excited for Halloween 3D and Scary Movie 5?

UPDATE: I had read on several sites that there was no script yet for Halloween 3D, but, someone from [screenread] posted a link to an interview with Todd Farmer. Apparently a script is completed and has been so for some time. It contains a minor plot detail, in my opinion, in terms of the feel/look/mood of the movie. Read below:

screen/read: Now there’s another slasher movie that you’re involved in which is „Halloween 3”. It’s been written by you but it’s not being made so far. What’s the deal there?

Todd Farmer: We were asked to do that right before „Drive Angry”. And I mean right before. It was so fast we had literally eight days to write the script. So we wrote it, we sent it in, everybody loved it, but unfortunately the person in power to greenlight it didn’t read it because even though we had moved very fast, what couldn’t happen was put financing together that fast. And so there just wasn’t the money to make the movie. That’s really what it is. It wasn’t that anybody didn’t want to make it. And then we went off and made „Drive Angry”, and so it got pushed to the side. I would still love to see it get made because it was so much fun to write. Granted, I was up all night, living on coffee, but I wrote it, Patrick wrote it, we worked on it like crazy and we got it done and it’s wonderful, it’s so much fun. We started with [Rob] Zombie’s movie and paid it respect. And what we ended up doing was taking the tone back to what John Carpenter had originally done with his movie. So we had a blast.