Jamie Lee Curtis will return to the "Halloween" film franchise, reprising her role as Laurie Strode in a new film to be released Oct. 19, 2018.
News of the sequel was announced on Twitter by Curtis and Bloomhouse Productions, which is producing the film for Universal Pictures along with produced by Trancas International Films and Miramax.
David Gordon Green will direct the movie, which is co-written by Danny McBride, The Hollywood reporter noted.
Curtis debuted the role in the 1978 original and returned for in "Halloween II" (1981), "Halloween H20: 20 Years Later" (1998) and "Halloween: Resurrection" (2002), the celebrity publication noted.
"We just love that original 'Halloween.' There’s something so scary about how simple it was," McBride said, according to Entertainment Weekly.
"I had seen all the Halloween films. We really were studying all the sequels and stuff, just to see where it exactly it went wrong. It definitely kind of felt that, as the series went on, Michael Myers became like Frankenstein and he was like indestructible and I think the more indestructible he was, the less scary he became. And so David and I, our ambition is to strip it down and get it back to [being] grounded in reality, which I think makes it scarier."
John Carpenter, who helped start the franchise in 1978, will executive produce and serve as creative consultant, Variety reported.
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