‘Halloween Ends’ Alternate Endings Would Have Killed Off This Major Character

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“Halloween Ends” is here. And whether you think it’s ultimately satisfying, it does provide a conclusive finale for the trilogy that started in 2018 with David Gordon Green’s “Halloween” and continued with the blood-soaked sequel, 2021’s “Halloween Kills.” Jamie Lee Curtis’ Laurie Strode, a part she first played in John Carpenter’s groundbreaking 1978 original, has her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the unstoppable serial killer who has haunted her for all of these years.Did good vanquish evil?

Or was evil ultimately triumphant? And what if the ending you saw in theaters or on Peacock wasn’t the ending that was originally intended?TheWrap talked to co-writer/director David Gordon Green about the possible alternate endings of “Halloween Ends.”MAJOR spoiler warning for “Halloween Ends.” If you haven’t seen it yet, grab your butcher knife and head back now!During our chat about “Halloween Ends,” I brought up the premiere of “Halloween Kills,” which happened at Beyond Fest the year before.

During the introduction to the movie, he mentioned that he had just re-written the ending of the new film. Green couldn’t remember what he was specifically referring to but said that “there are two radical reinventions of the ending.”At the very end of “Halloween Ends,” Laurie Strode comes under fire from both Michael Myers and Corey, the emotionally disturbed boyfriend of her granddaughter Allyson (Andi Matichak).

Corey attacks Laurie in her new home but kills himself before she gets a chance to (Allyson comes home at exactly that moment, suspecting that her mother killed her boyfriend).