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The Weinstein Company and the two brothers that run it have a reputation of being businessmen first and filmmakers second, so when Nikki Finke of Deadline Hollywood Daily reported that the studio was going to let director Patrick Lussier and screenwriter Todd Farmer have more time to develop the story for Halloween 3D, people that follow showbiz were likely shocked. Had an unexpected trick for the real Halloween come early?
Finke's source told her that Farmer's script had been turned in last Friday and the Weinsteins wanted the movie in production come November. The reason for the rushed delivery schedule was that Lussier had committed to start filming Drive Angry, the new Nicolas Cage action movie, at the start of next year so the filmmaker's work for Weinstein/Dimension had to have been wrapped up in post by then. There's some report that Lussier wants $2.5 million dollars more than Weinstein is willing to agree to for the film's budget but the long and short of it is Bob Weinstein wanted to give more time to working out the Halloween 3D story kinks and not rush the job. What kind of madness is this?
The plan now is to let Lussier go off and make Drive Angry and then after he's done shooting it, come back and do Halloween 3D the proper way for Weinstein. Perhaps that will push back the hoped-for August 2010 release that the studio wanted and perhaps not. After all, Rob Zombie got his Halloween sequel done in something like eight or nine months. Maybe the Weinsteins will even want to release Halloween 3D in October. Is Bob W. mellowing with age?
mckracken
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Posted: 15 years 20 weeks ago
NOT rushing Halloween 3 is a good idea... considering that the other Halloween III: season of the Witch wasnt even connected to the franchise at all.
lets do Halloween 3 right... the FIRST time.