Jamie Lee Curtis' shock at Halloween trilogy
Jamie Lee Curtis would not have signed up to the new Halloween movie if she knew it was part of a trilogy but she used it to get a development deal with Blumhouse.
Jamie Lee Curtis would not have signed up to the new Halloween movie if she knew it was part of a trilogy.
The 67-year-old actress agreed to star in David Gordon Green’s 2018 movie Halloween, the sequel to her 1978 film, for Blumhouse productions but admitted she had no idea she would be expected to take part in two follow-up films.
However, Curtis – who went on to star in Halloween Kills, and Halloween Ends – decided to use the movies to help her get a development deal with Jason Blum of Blumhouse.
According to Variety, when speaking during the SXSW panel, If Not Now, When, if Not Me, Who? Pivoting and Manifesting, she said: “The only reason I am sitting in this chair today is because of Jason. Jason Blum, who runs Blumhouse, is the one who brought back the Halloween movies.
“If they had come to me and said it’s going to be a trilogy, I don’t think I would have said yes. Jason Blum is notoriously cheap. How do you make low-budget movies? You don’t pay people. That’s the model.
“While we were editing and doing the mix, David said, ‘You know it’s a trilogy.’ I was like, ‘Uh, no.’ I went to Jason Blum and said, ‘I have some ideas, maybe you could give me a first look deal, just pay me a little money'. I said to Jason, ‘How about a little development deal?’ And I owed him two Halloween movies, so what was he gonna say? Jason Blum gave me a vanity deal.”
Curtis went on to explain that she wanted the deal in order to work with filmmaker Russell Goldman.
She went on to hire Goldman for her Comet Pictures company and they are premiering his debut Sender at SXSW.
And, while she has branched out from horror since Halloween, Curtis will always have a special love for the genre.
She said: “I’m in love with the independent filmmaking aspect of the genre.
“So because of that, the genre aspect, I appreciate, and I owe my life to the genre, but I don’t have to pretend to you that I’m a genre girl, and that I love it.”
