Director/composer/musician, etc. John Carpenter didn’t particularly enjoy Rob Zombie‘s 2007 & 2009 takes on his 1978 film, ‘Halloween‘. In a discussion that took place at the New York Film Academy earlier in the year, Carpenter said of it and Zombie‘s adaptation of the film:
“Well I would say nice things about him, but you know, we did this… I thought it was going to be a real cool deal for the History Channel/Biography Channel—whatever that is, they were going to do about ‘Halloween‘ and I thought ‘Ooo that’s pretty cool’ until I noticed that they did one on ‘Caddyshack‘ and I thought, ‘what is this?’ [laughs]
Anyway, they interviewed him on that Biography Channel and he lied about me. He said I was very cold to him when he told me he was going to make it. Nothing could be further from the truth. I said, ‘Make it your own movie, man. This is yours now. Don’t worry about me.’ I was incredibly supportive. Why that piece of shit lied, I don’t know. He had no reason to. Why did he do it?
So frankly that will color my response to the film. I thought he took away the mystique of the story by explaining too much about the guy [Michael Myers]. I don’t care about that. He’s supposed to be a force of nature, he’s supposed to be almost supernatural, and he was too big.”
[via Entertainment Weekly]
