There was a time the place we’d not have seen Jamie Lee Curtis within the Halloween franchise revival!
The 67-year-old actress reprised her function as Laurie Strode within the 2018 horror movie Halloweenand once more in 2021′s Halloween Kills and 2022′s Halloween Ends.
Nonetheless, throughout a latest panel dialog on the 2026 SXSW Movie Pageant on Saturday (March 14), she revealed she would have most likely mentioned no to coming again if she knew one tidbit in regards to the motion pictures.
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“The one purpose I’m sitting on this chair right now is due to Jason. Jason Blumwho runs Blumhouse, is the one who introduced again the Halloween motion pictures,” Jamie shared, through Selection.
Then, she mentioned when she received the decision to reprise her function, she thought it was just one film and didn’t know there can be extra.
“If that they had come to me and mentioned it’s going to be a trilogy, I don’t assume I might have mentioned sure,” Jamie Lee revealed. “Jason Blum is notoriously low-cost. How do you make low-budget motion pictures? You don’t pay individuals. That’s the mannequin.”
Nonetheless, she did use this to her benefit…
“Whereas we had been modifying and doing the combination, David mentioned, ‘You recognize it’s a trilogy.’ I used to be like, ‘Uh, no.’ I went to Jason Blum and mentioned, ‘I’ve some concepts, perhaps you possibly can give me a primary look deal, simply pay me a bit of cash,’” she mentioned. “I mentioned to Jason‘How about a bit of growth deal?’ And I owed him two Halloween motion pictures, so what was he gonna say?”
The additional cash she needed was for filmmaker Russell Goldmanwho she was working with to try to get their 2023 graphic novel “Mom Nature” made. Now, he works in growth at her manufacturing firm, and they’re additionally premiering their film Senderwhich marks his function movie directorial debut, at SXSW.
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