Cruise or Hanks?
Hanks as Jimmy
In the discussion (1)
- Hanks works for Jimmy; Cruise is test-driven and rejected.
Hanks as Jimmy
No selection
Philip Seymour Hoffman would play Bud, with a Talented Mr. Ripley–style creepiness.
The elastic timeline, Michael’s bodily needs and unexplained skills, unguarded Laurie, odorless burned body, Karen’s attraction to Bud, workplace rules, scalpel physics, scalding water, and survivable headshots
The franchise has exhausted sequel and remake forms; Halloween: Resurrection is rejected as an adequate mostly Black version.
Samuel L. Jackson as the marshal or Loomis; Cris Collinsworth as Garrett; Byron Mayo as Bud
Tentatively, the score
Brackett’s marriage, police consequences and Ben Tramer litigation, Laurie confronting her parents, unused Dana Carvey comedy, hospital youth, and Michael’s impossible knowledge
The original nicotine-stained Michael Myers mask
When a homicidal maniac is loose, find your children, check in, and organize a phone chain.
Michael Myers