chase wright vanek played 10 year old michael myers in the rob zombie halloween (2007 film).
chase wright vanek played 10 year old michael myers in the rob zombie halloween (2007 film).
who played 10 year old michael myers in the rob zombie halloween (2007 film)?
chase wright vanek
halloween is a 2007 american slasher film written, directed, and produced by rob zombie. the film is a remake/reimagining of the 1978 horror film of the same name and the ninth installment in the "halloween" franchise. the film stars tyler mane as the adult michael myers, malcolm mcdowell as dr. sam loomis, scout taylor-compton as laurie strode, and daeg faerch as the young michael myers. rob zombie's "reimagining" follows the premise of john carpenter's original, with michael myers stalking laurie strode and her friends on halloween night. zombie's film goes deeper into the character's psyche, trying to answer the question of what drove him to kill people, whereas in carpenter's original film michael did not have an explicit reason for killing.
halloween (2007 film)
after "halloween iii" was released, michael myers was brought back into the franchise with 1988's "the return of michael myers", where he has stayed for the remainder of the series. four more sequels would follow, between 1988 and 2002, before the series would take a break for five years. on june 4, 2006, dimension films announced that rob zombie, director of "house of 1000 corpses" and "the devil's rejects", would be creating the next installment in the "halloween" franchise. bob weinstein approached rob zombie about making the film, and zombie, who was a fan of the original "halloween" and friend of john carpenter, jumped at the chance to make a "halloween" film for dimension films. before dimension went public with the news, zombie felt obligated to inform john carpenter, out of respect, of the plans to remake his film. carpenter's request was for zombie to "make it his own [film]". zombie's film would combine the elements of prequel and remake with the original concept, with considerable original content in the new film. zombie also wanted to reinvent the character, as he felt michael, along with freddy krueger, jason voorhees, and pinhead, had become too familiar to audiences, and as a result, less scary. zombie delved deeper into michael myers's mythology. michael's mask was even given its own story to provide an explanation as to why he wears it, instead of having the character simply steal a random mask from a hardware store, as in the original film. zombie wanted to bring michael closer to what a psychopath really is, and wanted the mask to be a way for michael to hide.
halloween (franchise)