


Yet Weinstein must have remembered their Halloween take, as he’d offered them the opportunity to tackle the franchise while Zombie was still in production on his own sequel. Farmer notes that, a year prior, he and Patrick Lussier had pitched Weinstein on remakes for Halloween and Scanners, which never came to pass. “We’d already struck a deal with Millennium Films at that point, and so there was some back and forth, and as a result of them not being able to do Drive Angry, they. Farmer explains, detailing how he and writing partner Patrick Lussier became attached to the third entry in Dimension Films’ Halloween reboot franchise, taking over the reins from exiting filmmaker Rob Zombie. “We’d written and gone out with Drive Angry, and the Weinsteins wanted ,” Mr. Farmer details this project’s origins, his approach in following up the Zombie films, and the bold found footage Halloween sequel that was all-too-briefly considered in the wake of Halloween 3D’s demise. Joining us for this chat is screenwriter Todd Farmer ( My Bloody Valentine 3D, Drive Angry 3D), returning to Phantom Limbs after previously delving into his unmade My Bloody Valentine 3D: Part 2. Our third trip to Haddonfield for this Spooky Season brings us to Halloween 3D, the unproduced sequel to Rob Zombie’s Halloween II. Here, we will be chatting with the creators of these unmade extremities to gain their unique insight into these follow-ups that never were, with the discussions standing as hopefully illuminating but undoubtedly painful reminders of what might have been. Welcome to Phantom Limbs, a recurring feature which will take a look at intended yet unproduced horror sequels and remakes – extensions to genre films we love, appendages to horror franchises that we adore – that were sadly lopped off before making it beyond the planning stages. an often painful sensation of the presence of a limb that has been amputated.
