HOW DO YOU SOLVE a problem like Michael Myers? For Haddonfield babysitter Laurie Strode, that’s a question she’s asked herself for over 40 years. For director David Gordon Green, well, that’s not an answer he’s giving up easily.
It’s day four – of 12, trivia fans – for the final sound mix on Halloween Ends when SFX sits down with Green. He feels good, but sad about the culmination of five years of his life, describing it as “bittersweet but fun”. An unexpected delay in the schedule means he’s been working on the finale for three years.
WAITING FOR HALLOWEEN
“Lots of time to write and invent and rewrite, recast, just trying on hats a little bit,” he says of the small budgets but big ambitions. “It gives me the creative freedom to take chances and do what I want, and not have a lot of people breathing down my neck about it.”
Has the delay allowed him to revisit ideas that may not originally have been part of the plan for ? “Sometimes you talk yourself out of
