Universal Pictures’ Halloween Ends, the final battle between Michael Myers and Laurie Strode, will arrive in theaters and on Peacock on October 14, 2022. The announcement of the simultaneous release on streaming and in theaters was made by Jamie Lee Curtis in a two-minute video released on social media.
Jamie Lee Curtis’ Laurie Strode has been terrorized by Michael Myers for four decades, and Curtis says she’s very proud of the upcoming final chapter to their lengthy story. Curtis believes Halloween Ends brings the saga to “a fitting conclusion.” In the video, she also explains the reasoning behind the decision to release Halloween Ends on Peacock and theatrically.
“Last year when we put out Halloween Kills, we were in the thick of the Covid crisis so we made that movie available in theaters and in homes at the same time. We discovered that there are people who want to go to the theater and scream their guts out – and other people who want to stay at home and scream their guts out. But what we knew was that people watched both at the box office and from streaming,” says Curtis.
The Scream Queen’s explanation gets briefly interrupted by Michael Myers lurking behind a nearby tree. Then she adds: “This year, we year we want to make sure that as many people as possible can see Halloween Ends before Halloween. So, we decided to give that same gift to the fans…again!”
Curtis says it’s been an honor to play Laurie Strode and no matter how you decide to watch the final chapter, she hopes “you’ll get people together and scream and cheer and hold your breath to the end because we created this for you.”
Curtis wraps up the announcement by saying, “I thank you for your years of support and how much you care about this story and me – your final girl.”
Joining Jamie Lee Curtis in the final chapter of the saga are Andi Matichak as Allyson, Rohan Campbell as Corey Cunningham, Will Patton as Officer Frank Hawkins, Kyle Richards as Lindsey Wallace, and James Jude Courtney as The Shape. David Gordon Green directs from a screenplay he co-wrote with Paul Brad Logan, Chris Bernier, and Danny McBride.
Universal Pictures’ official synopsis:
This is Laurie Strode’s last stand.
After 45 years, the most acclaimed, revered horror franchise in film history reaches its epic, terrifying conclusion as Laurie Strode faces off for the last time against the embodiment of evil, Michael Myers, in a final confrontation unlike any captured on-screen before. Only one of them will survive.
Four years after the events of last year’s Halloween Kills, Laurie is living with her granddaughter Allyson (Matichak) and is finishing writing her memoir. Michael Myers hasn’t been seen since. Laurie, after allowing the specter of Michael to determine and drive her reality for decades, has decided to liberate herself from fear and rage and embrace life. But when a young man, Corey Cunningham (Campbell), is accused of killing a boy he was babysitting, it ignites a cascade of violence and terror that will force Laurie to finally confront the evil she can’t control, once and for all.
A message from Laurie Strode. pic.twitter.com/x9sAOiAHgc
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