Michael Myers will be less like Frankenstein and more real in upcoming Halloween movie

Towards the beginning of the year, it was revealed that Comedian Danny McBride and Pineapple Express director David Gordon Green were taking on the Halloween movie franchise, with McBride acting as the writer and Green as the cowriter and director.

The most recent Halloween films, directed by Rob Zombie, were met with lukewarm reviews and pretty much made Michael Myers even more unstoppable than he already was – making him somewhat of a supernatural character.

In an interview with EW Radio‘s Entertainment Weirdly show, Danny McBride dished out on how Halloween will be less of a Frankenstein-esque:

“David Green is one of my oldest friends…He gave me a call one day and said he had been approached to direct another installment of Halloween. We’re having a blast with it. We just love that original Halloween. There’s something so scary about how simple it was. I had seen all the Halloween films. We really were studying all the sequels and stuff, just to see where it exactly it went wrong. It definitely kind of felt that, as the series went on, Michael Myers became like Frankenstein and he was like indestructible and I think the more indestructible he was, the less scary he became. And so David and I, our ambition is to strip it down and get it back to [being] grounded in reality, which I think makes it scarier.”

The new Halloween film is set for release October 18, 2017.