Halloween sequel cancelled for 2016

Halloween Returns was due to start shooting in July with a release date expected this year but neither has happened. And now the sequel looks unlikely to go ahead at all as Dimension Films who owned the rights to the franchise, has now lost them.

In September director Marcus Dunstan said he wanted to cast Community star Gillian Jacobs for the lead role, then in October the franchise’s producer Malek Akkad told Daily Dead, “unfortunately things happen in Hollywood where you have issues with studios and different variables—we’ve had to take a step back and now we’re trying to refigure this beast that is the new ‘Halloween.”

TheWrap confirms that Miramax is now looking to ship the franchise rights to other studios. Halloween Returns would have followed the events of 1981’s Halloween II and paved a new continuity from there but after this setback we may have to wait some time to see this film ever released.