With Michael Myers stalking back into theaters to go toe-to-toe with Laurie Strode one more time, there`s a major change happening. The new Halloween film isn`t another in a long line of sequels to the franchise. Instead, it`s disregarding Halloween 2-8 and instead following up directly on the first movie alone.That means Laurie and Michael are no longer siblings, Busta Rhymes never live streamed the killer murdering teenagers online, and Michael`s long-standing feud with his niece--which somehow lasted three movies--never took place. Instead, the new film picks up 40 years after the `babysitter murders` in the first film, leaving audiences to discover whatever became of Laurie and Michael after that one night.For Jamie Lee Curtis, that`s an important aspect of the characters, especially Laurie, to explore. `I believe Laurie Strode went to school November first. I think she went to school with a bandage on her arm, maybe some stitches from the emergency room,` she said during a group interview at the Halloween press junket. `I think her parents sent her back to school. And of course, two days before, she was an intellectual honors student heading off to be the valedictorian, no doubt, of her class, was going to go to Smith, do you know what I mean? She was going to get out of Haddonfield, she was going to go off, expand her mind. And two days later, she was a freak.`Of course, there was more behind the decision to retcon those other movies away. The franchise has simply gotten too complicated with a number of fragmented timelines. In some movies, Jamie was Laurie`s deceased daughter. In Halloween H20: 20 Years Later, though, Jamie was removed from continuity entirely, and Laurie has a son named John.With such a muddy canon to wade through, the answer was clear. In the words of executive producer Bill Block, `you simplify it.` He continued, `You come back to the core of a family tragedy, the impact and I`ll call it the cascade effect of the tragedy, sustain it do ...
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