Quote:Here\'s a bit of an interview I read. It gives a little more insight on where this is going.

"The ninth installment in the "Halloween" franchise
will be "a bit of a prequel and a remake, combined,"
Zombie said. The film will be set before the events of
1981\'s "Halloween 2: Halloween Resurrection," and will
focus on Myers\' origins and development into a serial
killer — his youthful years before his commitment to a
mental institution.

The news might come as a shock to some fans who read a
message posted on Zombie\'s MySpace page last week,
where the rocker shot down rumors that he\'d been in
discussions with Dimension to breathe new life into
the pale-masked Myers.

"I don\'t know how this story all got started but I am
not making \'Halloween 9\'," he wrote in a post dated
June 3. The next morning, he clarified the situation
in a separate post, writing, "I am not making
\'Halloween 9.\' That series is done, complete, over.
But what I am doing is starting totally from scratch.
Call it a remake, an update, a re-imagining or
whatever, but one thing that [is] for sure is this is
a whole new start — a new beginning with no connection
to the other series. That is exactly why the project
appeals to me. I can take it and run with it."

Before accepting the job, Zombie told Variety he\'d
reached out to Carpenter, seeking his blessing.

"The original \'Halloween\' is hallowed ground to me,
and I talked to him about it and he was very
supportive of what I wanted to do," Zombie said. "He
said, \'Go for it, Rob. Make it your own.\' And that\'s
exactly what I intend to do. Over 25 years and a lot
of movies, a very scary character became something of
a Halloween cliché, with Michael Myers dolls that play
the Halloween music when you press their stomachs. By
the end of the sequel cycle, there was little
connection to the original. I take that film very
seriously, and I want to make it terrifying again."

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