It was announced last week that David Gordon Green‘s Halloween will be getting *two* sequels in the coming years, with Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends filming back to back beginning this September; Kills will be released in theaters on October 16, 2020, followed by Ends on October 15, 2021. And yes, Gordon Green is coming back to direct BOTH films.

Mind you, horror franchises often promise “final” installments that don’t actually turn out to be, but what’s interesting about this particular take on the Halloween saga is that there’s a definitive endgame in mind. Mind you, that doesn’t mean we’ll never see Laurie Strode or Michael Myers again, but *this iteration* of the storyline will wrap up in 2021.

Speaking with Collider this week, Gordon Green promised a conclusion in two years.

“They’re never done telling the Frankenstein story, and at this point, Michael Myers is a classic movie monster. But our Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode/Michael Myers saga will be done,” Gordon Green told the site. “The fun of it is also seeing it end and knowing that it can. If you just keep trying to elongate it and milk it for all of the money, then that’s boring.”

Mind you, 2018’s Halloween also promised “the final battle” between Laurie and Michael, so here’s hoping Halloween Ends actually delivers on that promise in 2021.

Co-writer Danny McBride added, “I’m sure that, when we’re done, other people will come in and do the same thing, or have their own reinvention. Michael Myers is iconic enough to allow that, too. He’s like James Bond, where you can have different actors and different filmmakers. He represents something so simple and scary that he can be translated by lots of different people.”

Gordon Green and McBride co-wrote Halloween Ends with Paul Brad Logan and Chris Bernier.