Halloween H20s Killer Almost Wasnt Michael Myers

Halloween H20’s Killer Almost Wasn’t Michael Myers

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Halloween H20 marked the first reboot of the franchise’s continuity, but it almost went further, pushing villain Michael Myers to the side.

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Halloween H20s Killer Almost Wasnt Michael Myers

Halloween H20 marked the first reboot of the franchise’s continuity, but it almost went further, pushing villain Michael Myers to the side. Few horror franchises have weaved such a tangled web as Halloween, which is currently operating within its fourth distinct continuity, or fifth if one counts the tangential Halloween 3: Season of the Witch. While continuity snarls are understandable enough when a franchise is over 40 years old, that doesn’t make the overall timeline anymore cohesive, or any easier to make sense of.

When Halloween H20 came around in the late 1990s, it had been quite a while since a Halloween sequel had impressed anyone, with Halloweens 5 and 6 earning far more detractors than admirers. At the same time, Scream had come along to give the slasher sub-genre a much needed jolt of life, after the 1980s dominance of slasher franchises gave way to basically all of them crashing and burning in the 1990s. One can’t have a slasher revival without Michael Myers, so crafting Halloween H20 was born.

As one might imagine though, it took some convincing to get Jamie Lee Curtis to reprise the Laurie Strode role for the first time since 1981, and long after she’d become an A-lister. Before she came onboard, some of the early scripts for the movie that would become Halloween H20 were quite different, right down to their use of Michael Myers, or lack thereof.

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Halloween H20’s Killer Almost Wasn’t Michael Myers

Before Jamie Lee Curtis had signed on to return, an early script for Halloween H20 would’ve just seen Michael Myers killing people at a boarding school similar to that featured in the final film. In the end it would’ve turned out that none other than Charlie Deveraux was doing the killing, as he’d become obsessed with Michael Myers and became a copycat killer. According to actor Adam Hann-Byrd (as told to Halloween Daily News), who ultimately played the role, the first script he read and auditioned for had Charlie revealed as the killer. Not only that, but the real Michael Myers would’ve shown up at the end to show Charlie what he thinks of being ripped off. As one might imagine, it’s not a pleasant visit.

Between Hann-Byrd’s audition and him ultimately getting the Charlie role though, things changed, as Curtis came aboard, and the idea to have a copycat do the new killings attributed to Michael Myers was scrapped. Charlie was made into the “horny best friend” of Josh Hartnett’s character, as Hann-Byrd puts it, but in the end, he was happy to get the role either way. A specter of the Myers copycat concept still made it into Halloween H20’s sequel, Halloween: Resurrection, which revealed that Laurie had not in fact killed Michael at the end of H20, but instead a paramedic forced into Michael’s clothes and mask.

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