Just a week after Bob Weinstein announced he was “going back to do what he does best,” the Weinstein Company has made the announcement that ‘Halloween 3’ has been put on hold. According to Nikki Finke’s Deadline Hollywood, the first draft of the screenplay came in last Friday with Weinstein rushing to get production begun by November. This had to be done by January so that director Patrick Lussier could make the switch to the Nicolas Cage vehicle, ‘Drive Angry.’ This, evidently, caused Bob to rethink how quickly the project was rushing, and, thus, he made the call to postpone production until after ‘Drive Angry’ wrapped so that Lussier could take his time with it. This was also confirmed by Shock Till You Drop.
All in all, this is a good decision, as work on this project seemed to be coming down at a break-neck pace, something that shouldn’t be happening with any project, let alone a 3D production.
According to STYD, Lussier says they had a small window of opportunity to begin production, and everyone agreed that it would be better to hold off and work through it after ‘Drive Angry’ rather than pushing to get it done before.
No new start date has been set for ‘Halloween 3,’ but that isn’t stopping the Weinsteins from trying to make money off the franchise. Rob Zombie’s ‘Halloween II,’ while not a rousing success at the box office, did manage to pull in $32 million against a $15-million budget. This total will grow even more, as they are re-releasing the film to select theaters for midnight showings beginning on Halloween.
