A new photo from the set of Halloween Ends unites the trio of Jamie Lee Curtis, Andi Matichak and Kyle Richards, who play the characters of Laurie Strode, Allyson Nelson and Lindsey Wallace, respectively.
Curtis shared the photo to her Instagram account. "TOGETHER TILL THE END!" she wrote. "LINDSEY• LAURIE• ALLYSON •
10/14/2022." This new photo comes shortly after a recent one Curtis shared of herself sporting her Laurie Strode costume for Halloween Ends, seemingly signaling that production on the slasher sequel had officially begun.
Set for release later this year on Oct. 14, Halloween Ends serves as a direct follow-up to 2018's Halloween and 2021's Halloween Kills, marking the end of director David Gordon Green's Halloween revival trilogy. Chronicling a new spree of murders committed by Michael Myers, 2018's Halloween itself served as a direct sequel to director John Carpenter's iconic 1978 film of the same name -- ignoring all other sequels, as well as the remake duology released in the interim -- with Curtis reprising her beloved role as Laurie Strode for a new story set 40 years after the original Night He Came Home.
Prior to 2018's Halloween, Curtis previously reprised her role as Laurie -- the franchise's original "final girl" -- in 1981's Halloween II, 1998's Halloween H20: 20 Year Later and 2002's Halloween: Resurrection, all of which are non-canon to Green's films. In 2018's Halloween, franchise veteran Curtis was joined by newcomers Judy Greer as Karen Nelson, Laurie's daughter, and the aforementioned Matichak as Allyson Nelson, Laurie's granddaughter.
Curtis, Greer and Matichak all returned for Halloween Kills. The 2021 film also marked the return of Kyle Richards, who reprised her role as Lindsey Wallace for the first time since 1978's Halloween (not counting her appearance via archive footage in 1981's Halloween II). Laurie, Allyson and Lindsey are effectively Halloween Kills' final girls, all escaping Michael's wrath to fight another day. Karen, on the other hand, was not so lucky.
Whereas Green's Halloween and Halloween Kills take place on the same night in 2018, Halloween Ends jumps forward to 2022. As such, the film will directly address the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. "I would say that Halloween Ends is a more intimate movie where we were able to curate some of the aftermath of the chaos," Green told Den of Geek last year. "So some of the characters... will have processed the insanity of the circus of the massacre of 2018. And not only that, but they've also processed the world as it's spun so wildly in the last four years. In a lot of ways, it's a coming of age story."
Halloween Ends is scheduled for release on Oct. 14.
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