Halloween's Michael Myers Will Never Cross Over With Freddy Or Jason

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Halloween producer says Michael Myers will never cross over with Freddy or Jason. The original slasher movie icon Myers returned to movie screens in 2018’s Halloween reboot and will come back again to terrorize Haddonfield in next month’s sequel Halloween Kills.

 

Halloween 2018 of course represented a reset for the long-running horror franchise as David Gordon Green took over directorial duties under the watchful eye of Blumhouse Productions. The OG Michael Myers obviously arrived way back in 1978 in John Carpenter’s brooding original Halloween. Indeed the slasher craze was for all intents and purposes kicked off by Carpenter’s Halloween, though the genre would quickly become a lot gorier and less technically polished. The masked-and-silent killer Myers would himself inspire loads of future slasher villains of course, some more effective than others. Of those Halloween-inspired slasher movie bad guys, Jason Voorhees of Friday the 13th and Freddy Krueger of A Nightmare On Elm Street are undoubtedly the most iconic today. In later years, Jason and Freddy even met on-screen in a slasher crossover movie for the ages.

 

For many horror fans the only thing missing from Freddy vs. Jason was the very first slasher movie icon, Michael Myers himself. With Myers now back in the pop culture consciousness thanks to Halloween Kills it seems like a good time to ask if a crossover could still happen between the Halloween killer and one of the great horror movie villains he inspired. However, it seems that possibility has been put to bed for now as Halloween producer Ryan Freimann recently told CBR it’s not in anyone's plans:

 

We always run into that because you always want to have Freddy [Krueger] and Jason [Voorhees] and then Leatherface has kind of crept into there on the Mount Rushmore of those guys. I still like to think that Michael being the first is the best and I think each has their own [appeal]. Freddy definitely has his silliness and is interesting. I've never truly been a Jason fan but I find merit in all of them. We partner with Universal in their horror parks on the Titans of Terror where all four of them are represented but we try to really keep them on their own so I don't think you'll see a Michael vs. Jason or Michael vs. Freddy on the docket for the future.

 

 

Things could of course change in the future but for now it sounds like the door has been slammed on Michael Myers facing Freddy or Jason on-screen. Getting past rights issues would no doubt be a huge obstacle to such an endeavor anyway, especially as regards Jason Voorhees, as the Friday the 13th franchise remains in limbo while all sorts of legal entanglements are laboriously sorted out.

 

Were a dream crossover to happen despite apparent reluctance to go down that road, Michael Myers vs. Freddy would seem the most natural pairing, as the foul-mouthed Freddy provides some contrast with the silent and menacing Myers. Then again, Michael Myers vs. Jason might actually be hilarious just for the fact that neither of them ever speaks, perhaps turning the movie into a weird kind of slasher silent comedy. Another possibility would be for Myers and Jason to team up against Freddy, giving Freddy two unspeaking foils to play against. Of course that whole “Freddy battles silent slasher movie villain” thing was already done in Freddy vs. Jason with at best middling results. Ultimately the caretakers of the Halloween legacy are probably correct in their belief that Michael Myers should be kept as his own separate entity, going about his slasher business in the Halloween universe. Whatever they’re doing must be smart because Halloween is the one iconic slasher series that’s still actively going, while Friday the 13th and A Nightmare On Elm Street find themselves on the sidelines.

 

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