The Weinstein Company has been planning to reboot the "Halloween" franchise, but failed to get it off the ground. At one point Platinum Dunes (A Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) was on board to help, but talks eventually fell apart.
Now comes word that Federico D'Alessandro, a storyboard artist for such films as "The Avengers" and "I Am Legend," put together a video pitch to Platinum Dunes in hopes of getting the chance to direct the reboot. Since the project never came together, the pitch was ignored, which is why he has now put it up online.
"As a lifelong 'Halloween' fan it would be a dream to direct a reboot of the franchise that's so near and dear to my heart," he explained. "I created this [video] to show the tone and storytelling that I would bring to the project if I were lucky enough to have that chance."
It was a nicely put together animatic, but was it a better direction that Zombie's film? No! The feeling that came across was as the same badly writen garbage that Rob Zombie did. Everything was over the top. Carpenter's original was subtle and less action intensive. It was a lot scarier than over the top noise parades we get in today's horror films.
Nice animatic but wrong direction for Halloween.
Mudderswrites: on September 19th, 2012 at 9:35:37 AM
i liked it.
who knows....he might get another chance...money talks
this franchise wont die
minkowskiwrites: on September 19th, 2012 at 11:31:31 AM
A reboot of the reboot.
Just watch the originals for f*ck's sake.
rocketmanwrites: on September 19th, 2012 at 12:07:47 PM
The original is getting re released in time for this years Halloween,might treat myself
Dark8writes: on September 19th, 2012 at 2:42:22 PM
originals were sh*t
just continue robs storyline for f*cks sake
bspencewrites: on September 19th, 2012 at 4:02:31 PM
watched this last night on some random website. i personally like it if you work with it a little bit. use it as the opening scene and the fire explains his escape. hell have him set it if you want. but then keep the same style but then take it down to the gritty suspensful horror that the original film was once he gets to haddonfield.
the first person views were surprisingly really cool. most of the time first person isnt anything special but these were pretty cool i thought.
its not like halloween movies are going to just disapear so the way i see it let him do it and have platinum dunes distribute. they did really good with texas chainsaw and pretty good with jason. even freddy wasnt horrible. or you could take the other concept being pitched that will be found footage, 3d, and take place after robs godawful halloween 2.
the way i see it if they are going to keep pumping out halloween movies throughout the years (spoiler: they will) then just reboot it again. the original two were good. 3-6 horrible. h20 eh watchable. and resurrection... busta rhymes was in that one. we'll just leave it at that. the 2007 version was pretty good but the sequel was worse than transformers 2.
on a side note about horror i watched cabin in the woods last night. not scary at all, most horror movies arent these days, but i thought it was still really cool. wicked, original, and fun. watch that sh*t high. haha.
Sugartitswrites: on September 19th, 2012 at 5:22:09 PM
It didn't use John carpenters theme music
KillerCOckwrites: on September 19th, 2012 at 6:48:38 PM
This was boring as f*ck
BoobsMcGeewrites: on September 19th, 2012 at 6:51:40 PM
Thought it was hella good. Better than 95% of the horror movies out there.
Tanman32123writes: on September 20th, 2012 at 1:12:41 AM
f*ck you.. f*ck you.. and lastly f*ck you....
The remake of Halloween was f*cking awesome, i loved it, i think rob zombie did an amazing job... Why reboot it? just make a 3rd but make it good, i dont even know what the f*ck that second movie was, total garbage..
If anyone f*cks this up...
Dre-ELwrites: on September 20th, 2012 at 11:40:02 AM
