Last week, EW reported that David Gordon Green's horror sequel Halloween almost began with an entirely different opening sequence. That alternative start would have replayed from a different perspective the climactic events at the end of John Carpenter's original 1978 film featuring Jamie Lee Curtis' Laurie Strode, Donald Pleasence's psychiatrist Dr. Loomis, and the masked killer Michael Myers.
In fact, two alternative opening scenes were considered — the "restaging" described by Green and another, more radical, start which would have involved the death of Loomis who, in the timeline abandoned by the new film, survived to appear in several of the franchise's sequels. This second abandoned start was detailed by Halloween co-producer Ryan Turek on the latest episode of Shock Waves, the horror podcast he co-hosts with Rob Galluzzo, Rebekah McKendry, and Elric Kane.