Original 'Halloween' Filmmaker John Carpenter Returning for New Movie

Almost four decades after John Carpenter's original Halloween hit theaters, the 68-year-old writer/director/composer is planning to executive produce the 11th film in the saga. Halloween has been on hiatus since Rob Zombie drove the franchise into the ground with directed a sequel to his 2007 reboot back in '09. This is the longest that the saga of serial killer Michael Meyers has lain dormant.

“38 years after the original Halloween, I’m going to help to try to make the 10th sequel the scariest of them all," Carpenter says. There's no director or writer so far, although producer Jason Blum says, "We cannot wait to find and collaborate with the right filmmaker to give Halloween fans the movie they deserve.” The project is being fast-tracked.