Warning: This story contains major spoilers forHalloween Ends.
So now we know: Thanks toJamie Lee Curtis' Laurie Strode, evil really does die inHalloween Ends.
First, the final-girl-turned-ass-kicking-grandmother kills masked murderer Michael Myers at the conclusion of a lengthy kitchen-set brawl.
Jamie Lee Curtis lets loose in ‘Halloween Ends.'.Ryan Green/Universal Pictures
“Some were really bleak, and some were less bleak.
The version we ended up with, I think, is optimistic, hopeful.
AfterKillscame out with a bleak ending, I didn’t want to do that again.
‘Halloween Ends’.Ryan Green/Universal Pictures
I wanted to have some note of satisfaction.”
“We’ve been writing this for probably four years,” says Green.
“As soon as the first movie came out, we started designing the next two with different writers.
We were writing this simultaneous toKillswith a different writing team.”
(TheHalloween Endsscreenplay is credited to Green, McBride, Chris Bernier, and Paul Brad Logan.)
Green explains that the last confrontation between Myers and Strode was shot in chunks during principal photography.
“We had spectacular fights that have been in it from the first draft,” he says.
The big showdown of the film we did in different increments.
I wanted it to be emotional.
I didn’t want it to just be a brawl I wanted it to have some story points.
“I screen movies a lot, from the very first assembly,” says Green.
“I want to watch the audience as much as I’m watching the movie.
We wanted something more grand, and [that became] the procession sequence.
Green was also happy to have given Curtis’ character an upbeat ending after so much trauma.
So does the director definitely think this will be Curtis' last time at bat in theHalloweenfranchise?
“I do,” he insists.
“We said that together.
After the first one, we decided to do two more.
I do feel confident we are saying goodbye to Jamie playing Laurie in the universe.
Halloween Endsis playing in cinemas now and streaming on Peacock.
Watch the film’s trailer below.
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