Oct
31
2018
‘It was a horrible idea…’—John Carpenter on the original ‘Halloween’
Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaJohn Carpenter had only shot and scored two semi-obscure features when the executive producer Irwin Yablans came to him with a proposal: make a low-budget movie about babysitters being murdered. “It was a horrible idea,” Mr. Carpenter said in a recent telephone interview. “But I wanted to make more movies, so I said, ‘Great!’ . […]
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