movies, but Akkad rejected it
as “too cerebral”. From what’s
known of it, the rejected script
had a post-modern twist, ironic
given the massive success of
the revisionist Scream a decade
later. Alan B. McElroy, a self-confessed Halloween nut, rushed
out a script in 11 days that focussed on Jamie Lloyd, the
young daughter of Laurie Strode
(Jamie Lee Curtis), orphaned following her parents’ accidental
death a year earlier. Thanks to
the revelations of the second
film, fans now knew that young
Jamie (Danielle Harris) was of
course the niece of none other
than Myers himself. It’s a well
paced, punchy script that certainly feels like it was written by
someone who understands and
appreciates the series.
With Curtis out of the picture,
the film would be carried by
Pleasence, now practically a
household name thanks to the
role of Dr. Loomis. As with the
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