Sorry A24, The ‘Halloween’ TV Rights Now Belong To Miramax
After a morning abounding with social media disinformation (surprise, your uncle now owns the rights to the Halloween universe), Deadline has officially reported that Miramax has successfully bid on the television rights to the Halloween franchise, controlled by Malek Akkad’s Trancas International Films.
Per Deadline:
“Miramax Television has signed a wide-ranging deal with Trancas to develop and co-produce a Halloween TV series, which also includes a first-look agreement on other television projects for the international marketplace.”
Last week, Bloody Disgusting exclusively reported Akkad and Trancas were shopping the rights to the franchise around. Early speculation saw the likes of A24 and Miramax competing for primarily television rights, with online reports suggesting A24 (who recently secured the rights to a Friday the 13th television series) might win out. Miramax’s successful bid will see the studio’s Head of Global TV, Marc Helwig, facilitate a potential Halloween cinematic universe in close collaboration with Akkad.
Miramax and Trancas recently collaborated on David Gordon Green’s Halloween trilogy alongside Blumhouse. Blumhouse and Green have since shifted focus to their nascent The Exorcist trilogy, though given that film’s performance this past weekend, the future of the planned trilogy remains uncertain. Nonetheless, Miramax’s longstanding connection to the IP yields promise after a heated bidding war.
Marc Helwig was quoted as saying, “We couldn’t be more excited to bring Halloween to television. We are thrilled to expand our long and successful partnership with Trancas and the brilliant Malek Akkad in introducing this iconic franchise to a new form of storytelling and a new generation of fans.”
So, after weeks of speculation and baseless rumors (sorry, A24, you can’t win them all), it looks like the future of Halloween will closely mirror the past and present of the Halloween universe. What that looks like remains to be seen—whether it’s more Michael Myers or something closer to John Carpenter’s original conception of the franchise, that is—though there’s no doubt Halloween isn’t over for now. Turns out, evil doesn’t die tonight. It lives on, now on television.
What do you think? Are you excited about the prospect of a Halloween cinematic universe? Let me know over on Twitter @Chadiscollins.
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