Halloween Ends to Start With a Huge Time Jump, Says David Gordon Green

[Editor's note: The following contains spoilers for Halloween Kills.] If you've seen Halloween Kills, you know it picks up immediately where David Gordon Green's 2018 Halloween left off, which left the creative team with one massive Laurie Strode problem. Jamie Lee Curtis' iconic slasher survivor had just taken a fairly large kitchen knife straight to the guts, and the genuinely graphic surgery to save her life in Halloween Kills means Laurie realistically needs to be confined to a hospital bed for the entire film. It's a bit of a bummer, and Green seems well aware of it. When Collider's Steve Weintraub sat down with the filmmaker to discuss Halloween Kills, Green revealed its sequel, the trilogy-capper Halloween Ends, has a built-in way to include Laurie: a four-year time jump. “There is a time jump. It gets back onto a contemporary timeline, so it'll jump four years,“ Green told us, noting that Halloween Ends heads into production in January of 2022. The