John Carpenter
Any idea why he's involved? It can't be that he really has faith in this movie. Was he desperate for work? Did they get him involved to hook the fans in?
shareYes, to hook the fans in. The same way they used James Cameron to promote Terminator: Genisys, and used Tobe Hooper to promote Texas Chainsaw 3D. This is slightly different for the fact they got Carpenter to do the score for this film.
Blumhouse owns the Halloween rights now, and Carpenter is aware that Blumhouse makes movies that are successful, so of course he's going to jump on board and take part of it. The man's probably tired of collecting residuals from his previous work in the past, and also probably hates himself for Halloween II.
Halloween II set in stone Michael being Laurie's brother, and made everyone want more Michael instead of more anthology what Halloween III provided. Carpenter probably wanted to correct the mistake of Halloween II, and get involved with this film to close the chapter on Michael Myers. Or at the very least, close it in a way he'd probably wanted it to, considering the writers and director of this film have a sequel in mind.
WRONG and laughably wrong again. Carpenter read the script, approved the script and was ON SET consulting and advising during the entire production. All Cameron did for Genisys was publicly say "the new one's cool, go see it"
Get a clue
I haven’t been looking into the production of the movie that much. I was just making assumptions.
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