So, movie sequels are really becoming a mess eh!

[wonderer99]

With the news that Jamie Lee Curtis will be reprising her role of Laurie from the original Halloween we continue the horrible trend of new movies completely disregarding previous entries in the series.

So, correct me if I am wrong but as it stands Halloween 3 has almost nothing to do with 1 and 2. Halloweens 4-6 completely ignore the 3rd film. Halloween H20 disregards the previous 4 movies although does acknowledge Laurie's death by claiming she faked it. Now we have a new movie that will completely ignore all but the first two movie, including its own soft reboots and essentially reset the series, again. Phew.

I have discussed a number of times on the forums my disdain for Neil Blomkamp's (thankfully abandoned) attempt to ignore Alien 3 and Resurrection. I find it very distasteful and ignorant to mess with a series events at any point in their timeline purely because a certain entry did not sit well with a director. It is, well, arrogant.

Now I know this is not a new trend exactly (Yes, Superman Returns did it and a number of others) but it does seem to be getting more common and with the amount of new, young directorial talent emerging there seems to be a real risk of franchises becoming, at the very least, horrendously messy. Just imagine if a new guy comes along who liked Alien and Alien 3 but not Aliens. He alters the timline again. Then someone else wants to keep Alien, Aliens and Resurrection but not Alien 3? How complicated and ugly can it get?

So the question is, has the word canon lost all meaning? Yes we will always have whatever entries we love and can watch them anytime we wish. Nothing will detract from that of course but the new Halloween movie seems to just be sticking two fingers up at its own franchise canon and I fear many more film series will soon become a mess of individual entries that ignore whatever they wish in the series based on the personal opinions of their individual directors.

Thoughts?