Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions' forthcoming Halloween sequels are set to enter production in September.

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Following the recent announcement of the deadly double-bill , it has now been confirmed that Halloween Kills, the follow-up to the 2018 revival , and Halloween Ends will be filmed back-to-back later this year.The sequels will be directed once again by David Gordon Green, from a script he co-wrote with Danny McBride and Jeff Fradley. Green and McBride recently opened up about their upcoming films, which will continue the blood-pumping saga of Michael Myers and Laurie Strode."We start in September [and shoot them back-to-back] with a breather between. But they'll be out in two consecutive years, in 2020 and 2021. You get a breather this year, and then, for the next two years, it’s gonna be crazy," they said in an interview with Collider The first entry into the revival trilogy slashed things back to basics, eschewing all of the other films in the franchise apart from the original, but the team realised early on that they had enough story ideas to spawn two additional sequels."We had ambitions of doing two, with some big ideas, and then decided that we should see if anybody liked one at a time, and if they liked the other one, then maybe we'd build on it. And then, when that was successful, our additional ideas that weren’t integrated into that first one developed into two," they explained, before adding that "it's not another reinvention, or anything like that. It's this world that we've established, and then it continues beyond the events of the first one."Reports of these horror franchise follow-ups first surfaced last month, as it emerged that a potential Halloween 2 featuring Jamie Lee Curtis was apparently in the works, and based on everything we know so far, it seems that Laurie Strode will continue to be central to the story in the aftermath of 2018's Halloween , which had an absolute killer box office debut Halloween Kills will be released on October 16, 2020, while Halloween Ends will be released on October 15, 2021, just under one year later.

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