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The man behind the mask will slash once more. By Brandon Wolfe Michael Myers has been out of our lives for far too long. His last outing was in 2009’s Halloween II , the sequel to Rob Zombie’s 2007 remake of the original film. However, Zombie’s Michael Myers - hulking, unmasked, more than a little white-trashy – was a far cry from the sleeker, more elegant killer from the olden days. The last outing in the original Halloween continuity (or at least one of several competing continuities; it gets confusing) was 2002’s Busta Rhymes-powered Halloween: Resurrection , which was hardly a glorious note to go out on. But now Michael is finally coming home in the idiotically titled Halloween Returns (it returns every year!). Dimension Films and Trancas International Films are set to start production next month on the latest installment. Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton, writers on the last batch of Saw films, wrote the script, said before to be a “ recalibration ” in an attempt to coin...

Michael Myers is in the shop for a recalibration. By Brandon Wolfe The Hollywood Reporter is Hollywood reporting that Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan, writers of the final four (so far) installments in the Saw series, have been hired to write the script for what is being called a "recalibration" of the Halloween franchise. Malek Akkad, son of longtime Halloween executive producer Moustapha Akkad, will be producing along with Matt Stein. The big question here, obviously, is what in God's holy name does "recalibration" mean? One would think it's simply a sly way to say "reboot" without using that tired old chestnut, but Bloody Disgusting has confirmed that the film will be neither a remake of the original classic nor a sequel to Rob Zombie's reboot films from 2007 and 2009 (it will also not be produced in 3D, as previously rumored). Unless it's a new installment in the previous, pre-Zombie timeline, that doesn't leave mu...