HALLOWEEN THE MISSING YEARS Script Explained

HALLOWEEN THE MISSING YEARS script was to be Halloween 9, the follow up to Halloween Resurrection before Rob Zombie and the Halloween remake. Between the book Taking Shape II (get yours here: shorturl.at/dfgjQ ) and a new interview with the writer and developer on Dread Central's podcast (listen here: www.dreadcentral.com/developm... ) we have all the details we could gather on HALLOWEEN THE MISSING YEARS and it is wild how many aspects of Rob Zombie's Halloween remake and Halloween Kills compare to it. 🎃 Join us on Patreon so we can make more content and get the WWAM up in everybody MICHAEL!!!! / wewatchedamovie
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[@AA-oc3kx]

Will you cover the script for The Night He Almost Came Home written by Ben Collins and Luke P? That premise seems the best to reboot the series around. Michael escapes after 1 and is never seen again. And pops up in different towns every Halloween and raises hell. He becomes an urban legend basically

[@WeWatchedAMovie]

Man I'd love to get my hands on that full script!

[@SchecterIsKING]

The night he almost came home. 💀

[@Matter-Dark]

That sounds awesome

[@n1kkmoviezz463]

Imagine all the scripts that never get made for every movie

[@PHVCE]

There were some really good scene ideas in this one! Especially that panic room and tub with black goo scene.

[@staciashworth6717]

Always love hearing about the lost Halloween scripts. Oh and it was awesome seeing you guys at Scarefest!

[@WeWatchedAMovie]

We love talking about em! And hells yeah thank you for coming by!

[@zachburrell3068]

One issue...rival schools aren't usually 150 miles away from each other. "Haddonfield is 150 miles away...he can't drive" "HE WAS DOING VERY WELL LAST NIGHT!!! Maybe someone around here gave him lessons!"

[@WeWatchedAMovie]

excellent point!

[@VanDutch87]

Halloween: The Wonder Years. Starring Fred Savage as Doctor Loomis 😂

[@WeWatchedAMovie]

Why the fuck not jim

[@jtcustoms4297]

I hope you guys could cover some of the other ones like Platinum Dunes Halloween and Daniel Farrands original treatment of Halloween 6, maybe the rest of Halloween night dance. Also, Halloween 6 took place in Smiths Grove like this one. This treatment is really interesting, and I wonder if they could take some ideas from this and make it for either a movie or show. They also did a comic that showed what happened with Laurie between H2 and H20 called Halloween: The first death of Laurie Strode. Also, happy 45th to Halloween (1978)

[@geeky2879]

I know I've said this before but give me a reboot (yes, another one) but make the main focus of it be Dr. Loomis hunting Michael Myers & have the babysitters as secondary characters. Make it a Van Helsing Vs Dracula but PLEASE keep the mystery behind Michael. Hell, make PART of the movie about trying to find out why Michael is the way he is & even go so far as to maybe even finding his parents but it inevitably leads to a dead end. He is just The Shape, a force of nature. Is he a man? Is he supernatural? Is he both? Just always leave it at a question, though. NEVER give an answer. At least to start off with, make Dr. Loomis the only one to understand this. This has always been the appeal for Halloween to me. Loomis, Michael & the never to be solved mystery behind The Shape & why it does what it does & has the abilities it has. With ALL of that said, I'm totally fine with alternate time lines & letting people showcase what Halloween is to them but I'm very much in Carpenter's boat on this. Oh &...you can't kill the boogeyman. If they end up turning him into spaghetti, just have him reappear a year later on Halloween. How? No one needs to know! Mystery! Also, terrifying! Alright, had my geek out. I still enjoy a lot of Halloween movies for what they are, even if I don't agree with it. Halloween Ends & Rob Zombie's versions I can't stand, though. To each their own, though. Also, can we get someone to go through Halloween movies with bad Michael Myers' masks & digitally fix them to make them look like the original? We have the technology! Okay, I'm done. Looovvve youuuu...😘

[@WeWatchedAMovie]

I'm with you!

[@ivictorrattlehead]

Sheriff Brackett kinda makes sense to be a new Loomis like character since Michael killed his daughter

[@WeWatchedAMovie]

That's what I was thinking too! Not sure if Cyphers could have pulled it off tbh but maybe

[@ivictorrattlehead]

@@WeWatchedAMovie yeah true definitely would've been interesting to see though maybe that's how they could've replaced Laurie 🤔

[@joemedeiros3610]

I have been so interested in the taking shape books that I purchased both of them I'm going to give them a look I've always enjoyed all of the lost script ideas and have often wondered what would have happened if those scripts were produced oh well great video as always mike

[@WeWatchedAMovie]

Thanks buddy Hope you enjoy them, they are great!

[@Ka_Five]

These un-made Halloween videos are my favorites! Would love to hear y'alls opinions on the Platinum Dunes' Halloween, and the Halloween Reboot Trilogy (Multiverse Halloween) from that book! Those two really grabbed me

[@austintravis2174]

This also sounds a lot like the young adult novels that came out in the 90s especially Halloween the Madhouse pretty close to the same thing you should do a review on those three novels it would be awesome!

[@theviolator8622]

I think this could/should honestly be the plot of the upcoming TV show.

[@WeWatchedAMovie]

Could be a little bit of a blasty blast

[@jerryramey1849]

Most likely Michael stole the files. I'm interested by Michael studying the files and strategizing. Michael's being tactical heightens adds more credibility.

[@WeWatchedAMovie]

Shit is wild dude!

[@jerryramey1849]

@@WeWatchedAMovie Michael is best portrayed as a human that acts on an unknown instinct for evil. Michael is primal following urges cause him not, as Loomis says not 'understanding good, evil, right or wrong' yet doing the things he does shows intelligence, so Michael is both.

[@austinharrison2453]

Truly said

[@LowdenFTW]

That shit is so cringe. I don’t need to see or even think of Michael sitting down at desk with his monocle out researching files lmfao. The whole point of Halloween is not knowing. This movie never needed a single sequel or any answers. That’s why everything ever since has never and will never live up to the original.

[@Carusone_Daniel]

I love the missing years idea that would be so great if they did that.Going back to Smiths Grove what a good idea.Thanks for the video Mike! You guys are awesome

[@WeWatchedAMovie]

Thank you for watching amigo!

[@residentdrevil3216]

Now I just hear Charles Cyphers saying "Everyone is entitled to one last evil dies tonight!" for some reason. I love the Taking Shape books btw. Another fun video on what could have been.

[@LA_HA]

This story has elements of the Young Adult Halloween novels (especially Book 3: The Mad House), a couple of the movies, and even one o two of the comics. Not bad at all . This was really interesting. Thank you. Hope you finish the other novelizations soon. The ones you did were great

[@lucastucker1979]

ok now I can't stop imaging Michael doing the Axel Foley laugh

[@dylangardiner4991]

Can’t beat a Halloween script video 😍

[@danielmarquis5258]

You're the greatest Mike!! I enjoy your Halloween updates! Thanks for doing what you do.

[@WeWatchedAMovie]

No you are! Thanks buddy

[@NativeWrestler]

I think the perfect Halloween 9 story wise is the fan film Halloween Awakening.

[@jtgstudios6895]

Awakening was pretty good but I think the upcoming fan film adaptation of Halloween Retribution will be just as good.

[@NativeWrestler]

@@jtgstudios6895 I'll keep an eye out for it.

[@travisz3940]

awesome coverage

[@WeWatchedAMovie]

Thanks for watching!

[@VinElliott]

Well damn. That sounds awesome and makes total sense. Sheriff Brackett as the “new Loomis” sounds amazing! Damn you Rob Zombie!!

[@Elizabethjewel]

Im waiting for a halloween skit from you and jay before halloween comes❤❤love this channel even better around halloween

[@DARTHBASTARD69]

It would be interesting to have Myers dealing with the Halloween 3 silver shamrock aftermath!

[@mikestacks4155]

Great content as always , Mike !

[@brianc7082]

Missing years? If memory serves me correct, H4 states Myers was in a coma for the ten years.

[@WeWatchedAMovie]

This is in the H20 timeline so there technically was no H4 or H5

[@intheredcold9216]

There's a couple of Loomis movies or episodes on KZbin that are actually really good the actor is decent Donald Plesance Loomis and the story is pretty good too snd even ties into Halloween 2018. Highly recommend checking them out if you haven't seen them yet.

[@micjoseph6250]

i think they could pull great material from the Halloween comics, Night Dance i think its called, it has Loomis and Michael as a kid at Smith Grove , all kinds of whacky things going on, staff and other kids being killed, Loomis not being able to know how or who is doing it. Could do a short tv series with the last show having Michael break out, of course in the final show you dont show Michaels face , as he would be 21 by then.

[@DD-eight]

Party on Mike!! Party on Jay!!! Game on!!!!!!!!

[@user-ih2tr7rt9r]

I am very interested after everything from what I just heard about this script and that wouldn’t been cool bracket returns he’ll be coming like the new Dr. Loomis and he’s hunting down Michael Myers after what he did to his daughter that would’ve been dope everything about that sounds very lit and this is why I love these type of videos like this where we didn’t watch the missing years of Halloween with Michael Myers, with all of the script all that could be very interested and seeing bracket getting killed by Michael with the barricade thing would’ve been cool to see this. Also makes me wonder if it was any more to this great video Mike, are you going to see a part two of this whole entire script or are you going to make another script video of something else with the Halloween franchise

[@cinemawiz8742]

2:38 something I never knew I needed to see 🤣

[@michaelrein5207]

Rob Zombie: I’m not using anyone else’s work Also Rob Zombie: Oh you want me to do a remake of the original Halloween using half of John Carpenter’s script. Alright, but that’s it.

[@priscillaposey3898]

It sounds awesome! I think with the right execution they could still do this and separate themselves from the previous films

[@Kingvon908]

Seems like the scripts they don’t go with in horror movies usually sound better then the ones we get in the movie lol

[@ClaudiaBrBronsteijn]

Hi Mike happy halloween

[@knightsofsumeria]

I like when Michael is intelligent instead of a brute. So, I think Michael having all those papers is pretty creepy That being said. I do hope they continue this in the form of a TV show

[@WeWatchedAMovie]

It would totally creep me out as well

[@scifibri2376]

I still think they should have had a prequel sequel al la Better Call Saul. A tie to pt 3 could have been done in a way where pt 3 is Retconned because it shows a trailer for Halloween, but heavily borrowed from. The great reveal should be The Shape is a hyper advanced replica of Michael Myers produced by Silver Shamrock. And other masked killers are out there. Each are virtually nondestructable. Newer models even better and can talk. But something would be off. They become active killers only on Halloween. They get their kill commands from the warlock mad scientist. A similar motive to The Tall Man of Phantasm.

[@mackbenoit-hart8191]

Hey my first video of yours. I loved it. Halloween has started, stopped and restarted time lines so I say it could be done again and The Missing Years sounds great. Will they make it? Probably never but could they and should they? Yes! I don't care that the other films have borrowed from this. It was here first. Maybe they can change those bits up. I don't know but it sounds great.

[@WeWatchedAMovie]

Hey thank you so much for the kind words! And I totally agree

[@DD-eight]

Hahahah I absolutely love tht BHC song!!! Thts the best!!

[@WeWatchedAMovie]

samesies homie!

[@a.j.bandido8739]

They should make a novel based off the Missing Years concept

[@scottboyer7823]

Awwwe this sounds like ut would have been awesome I think they could still do this with a TV series along with movies tying into the TV series. I don't see why they couldn't still do this and clean up the whole series and timeliness

[@HorrorJunkies74]

I want one of the new t -shirt looks badass

[@WeWatchedAMovie]

Thank you!

[@billkelly6292]

Hopefully with Miramax buying the rights..Hopefully They could turn all these lost scripts into movies and shows..And continue the H20, Resurrection timeline..As well as the Thorne trilogy timeline..Lots possibilities.

[@Ghost_-nz5dy]

It would be dope if someone made a fan film based off this idea

[@ManiacalMidget13]

Halloween : 50 years later. Michael sh!ts his pants 😂😂😂

[@WeWatchedAMovie]

Happens to the best of us

[@mikestacks4155]

I came up with an idea on how too do Halloween over again , but with a twist ,in a post , not to long ago , you can look for it if you want . Basically , Myers has a great home life , with even greater parents who love him very much ! & on Halloween night , a couple demented psychopaths who escaped from a near by hospital . Well , they happen too come across the Myers house, break in & kill everyone in side , except for little Michael Myers , who was hiding somewhere , so he was never seen ! Long story short , Michael gets blamed for the murders , but he's innocent ! He gets thrown into a very bad mental hospital where they don't care what happens too the patients . Michael is severely beaten , & miss treated , until he breaks out & heads home , for redemption , or a bloodbath ! Maybe both!

[@wyattmcgee1]

Are these script recaps going to be an annual thing?

[@WeWatchedAMovie]

Nah just something we do from time to time! Probably will be another one before next year I'd imagine or several

[@deangagatr3886]

They could definitely rework it for the TV series

[@WeWatchedAMovie]

I think so!

[@Michael-White]

Yeah I like the way this sounds!

[@joshuahamilton2441]

The saddest thing with Resurrection, RZ Halloween, and H2 is that they were just following trends. No soul, nothing interesting or great to add to the mythology. I remember so many popular horror movies like Saw, Hostel, House of 1000 Corpses, etc. were so gore heavy and that's what the remakes became, as if that's scary and interesting. It's like porn, if there's no interesting story, all it is, is a fucking mess. Resurrection was basically an 80's F13 movie but with Michael, that was really sad. Even H20 had bits of Scream mixed in. I think if they had gone more of an original route, it might've not even been better at the time, but with movies like Scream 3, would've grown appreciation over time. Instead, they're generally the most disliked movies by fans. I think that's why I liked the Blumhouse movies so much. They weren't super original, of course, but each film followed its own beat.

[@byronweaver8941]

Will you (Mike) be doing the rest of Taking Shape 2?

[@WeWatchedAMovie]

Eventually we hope to get to all the scripts regardless!

[@jimmccarley8280]

Just the fact that Michael was reading anything brings me to question whether he is human or simply evil. I like the whole thing of knowing where he went after all these movies, but this is a bit much. My thought would be that he never stops killing, he simply moves on but comes back to Haddonfield on Halloween. I think it might be good if feds got involved and put two and two together and linked Michael to other murders through the year in neighboring states. Not too far away because I mean how could he travel? I guess he could drive but he would need gas and money and food right? Michael could be linked to all the missing person cases for so many years and the total could be staggering...I have a script written and waiting if anyone wants to look at it. It has been written, signed , dated and is in a lawyers safe...lol.

[@7deadlysloths]

gawddamn you michael, halloween's almost over yet again.

[@WeWatchedAMovie]

Such a bummer! It goes too quick

[@danielmyerscrazylab9218]

Michael u do not go stealing text books lol god dam u Michael. U guys are awesome

[@TheAmazingAdam]

This sounds like it would of been AMAZING.

[@WeWatchedAMovie]

I agree dewd!

[@chyannaturner9110]

Dude I just listen to that podcast about this !!!!!

[@Cutelatinguy2]

Hey Mike!

[@kristophergiachini1427]

Sounds like a variation of the Halloween Retribution script. 🎃

[@jtgstudios6895]

Currently working on a fan film adaptation for Retribution even rewrote the original script, stay tuned 🎃

[@WeWatchedAMovie]

They mention that a lot! They also say that the name "Retribution" was actually more fitting for this one bc of Brackett's revenge and Michael wanting to finish everyone off.

[@Chew.bubblegumandkickass]

8:13-8:15 😂😂😂

[@CreativeStoryteller35]

I would rather this script over the awful remakes we got.

[@danielmyerscrazylab9218]

Are u looking forward to scream 7 and Halloween ends

[@officalhumblefish565]

Have you ever thought about pitching a script?

[@snowkhan99]

I'm a little confused by the timeline here. It was supposed to take place a year after Halloween 2, but Charles Cyphers would have been much older and the main character babysits FOR Lindsey Wallace?

[@WeWatchedAMovie]

Yeah I think I misspoke and misheard there because you're right.....I think Lindsey would have been babysat BY Langley. Which it makes it more fucked up she dies off screen. As far as Cyphers go I guess its one of those situations where Tobin Bell just played his younger self in a prequel, lol. Great point though.

[@snowkhan99]

@WeWatchedAMovie Ah okay! Makes more sense then, yeah that is fucked up she dies off screen lol

[@eklypised]

Will we ever see the original 2018 ending??

[@WeWatchedAMovie]

Hell no. One of the dumb things about that trilogy. I feel like there's a ton of Ends and Kills stuff we'll never see either.

[@mikestacks4155]

Yeah , that's a great idea , make a continuation Halloween movie from one of , if not thee worst Halloween movie ever , in "Halloween resurrection" ! Yeah , good idea , Mike ! Lol . Let's be smart & do it from " Halloween 4: The return of Michael Myers ! "

[@chyannaturner9110]

I love this idea and I think Brackett is a good replacement for Loomis,although not gonna lie I loovvve Sheriff Meeker but I know he's not cannon anymore😢

[@WeWatchedAMovie]

Yes! Meeker ruled!

[@chyannaturner9110]

@@WeWatchedAMovie definitely needed more of him!!!!!

[@Orandommeteredclock]

Michael already stole files from Nurse Marion Chambers at the start of H20.

[@johnmcnamara8741]

Great video as always, but I’d skip this movie. The only lost years I want to know about is Halloween 2 to H20…. Wtf was he doing the entire time?

[@WeWatchedAMovie]

Thank you! I think had they had a few sequels we may have ended up finding out!

[@johnmcnamara8741]

@@WeWatchedAMovie better yet a WWAM video with theories about what he was doing 🤔

[@danielmyerscrazylab9218]

It looks awesome Friday the 13th series

[@cjm753bc8]

Dingle berries.

[@jtbcu2269]

Dingle Berries

[@TheSparksAndHearts]

Berries that dingle

[@MINI-MYERS]

Dingly berry

[@MlNDLESS]

They should bring back Daniel Harris. They could continue the storyline of Halloween 5 and just like Halloween H²⁰ they could pretend that Halloween 6 never happened.

[@slasherdope8065]

No 5 sucks. Follow 4, let's get a killer Jamie or something and bring back Rachel

[@MlNDLESS]

@@slasherdope8065 🤔 and what is Michael doing in your storyline?

[@mp-iw6kx]

👍...

[@Dreaklock]

This sounds way better than the absolute trash that was the Blumhouse trilogy.

[@miltonbaltazar5033]

I think the script you was talking about would’ve been better than the trashy rob zombie versions

[@silentd.a.7906]

Soo I’m curious for the hospital scenes, does Michael have his mask or is he in patient gowns?

[@WeWatchedAMovie]

The way I took it he doesn't have his mask. Which I'll give the Rob Zombie remake credit for there, they found a way to give him a mask for those scenes.

[@MINI-MYERS]

Foot fungus

[@WeWatchedAMovie]

Do what now

[@MINI-MYERS]

@@WeWatchedAMovie chuckster is my little foot fungus

[@andrewkeith1448]

Rob zombie’s Halloween didn’t take place in a trailer park

[@WeWatchedAMovie]

I know. It just smelled like it.

[@johnrunion5357]

HALLOWEEN 4.5 THE ANIMATED MOVIE what they should do to keep halloween/michael myers in the public's awareness is to make halloween 4.5 THE ANIMATED MOVIE. bring back JAMIE LLOYD, REV. JACKSON SAYER, DR. LOOMIS, DEPUTY GARY HUNT from halloween II, RACHEL, CHARLIE BOYLES mentioned in the 1978 film! so what if the actors are now older or since passed away they can still voice their characters or other voice atcors can imitate the characters's voices.. skip all of the thorn crap from 5 AND 666. halloween 4.5 takes place in 1989. i never wanted jamie to become the next shape. i knew all along they were never going to take that route. what they should have done is ship jamie off to smith's grove and then have michael break into smith's grove (give haddonefield a break for one halloween) in an effort to either attempt to kill her or traumatize her to the point where she actually begins to think she could possibly be evil to get her to join up with him....which she ultimately refuses to do and in the end she turns on michael and possibly/apparently kills him and saves rachel in the process. i always thought it would be a good idea to have michael break back into the facility. this way you could have a change in the setting, but still be true to the original concept. then i saw a max von sydow movie called the night visitor from about 1971. in it he breaks out of the asylum periodically to murder those who had him institutionalized, only to break back into the asylum after each new murder he commits. then i was like 'well, maybe it isn't an original idea, but it would still be cool to see michael break back into smith's grove.' also, in my 'story' there was to have been a patient at smith's grove who was an edlerly man. this man some times seems to be helping jamie escape michael and other times he seems to he assisting michael in his quest to find her. this old guy would turn out to be charlie bowles who was mentioned in the graveyard scene in 1978's halloween as having hacked his family up after supper. it is revealed that deputy gary hunt (hunter von leer) in halloween II was judith myers's lover on halloween 1963. they both have blonde hair. the deputy says he can remember halloween 1963 in halloween II. another halloween series alumni i would like to have in what i call 'halloween 4. 5' is rev. jackson p. sayer from 4: the return. the preacher actually did catch up with the evil he had been pursuing for years that he makes reference to in his conversation with loomis in 4. when the rev. caught up with his evil, he shot it six times and actually killed it. the preacher called it 'evil', but the authorties just saw the corpse of a dead man that the preacher had shot six times. when rev. jackson tried to tell everyone the person he had killed was evil incarnate everyone thought the preacher was insane and he was sent to smith's grove where he once again converses with loomis. while in smith's grove he / the preacher encounters michael and the preacher is convinced that michael REALLY is evil incarnate ... even well beyond what he had previously been pursuing and had ecountered/shot six times and killed. once i found a way to get all of the characters at smith's grove it just fell into place. loomis was no problem. michael of course was on the trail of jamie. jamie would actually be in smith's grove. charlie boyles and rev. jackson p. sayer would all ready be there. that just left gary hunt and rachel. deputy gary hunt could either be transporting paperwork about michael and/or jamie to the facility and rachel could be going to visit jamie there independently of each other OR gary hunt could be transporting rachel there for a visit with jamie and serving as her body guard. hunt while there encounters michael. he tells michael none of this was supposed to have happened. deputy hunt tells michael he/deputy hunt truly loved micahel's sister judith and they had plans to marry as soon as both were out of school. he tells michael that he / michael ruined his/gary's life by murdering judith and that is what set him/gary on his path of being involved in law enforcement; trying to prevent anyone else from ever suffering the kind of loss that he/gary did on halloween night 1963. this encounter of course ends badly for gary hunt.

[@BlindSideNZ]

dilapidated

[@calebparkinson4969]

FIRST!!!!!! Hahahhaha

[@WeWatchedAMovie]

NICE FACE

[@jamesboatwright1970]

Resurrection better than ends