'Bloody Valentine' Director Heads to Haddonfield

If it's bad news that Dimension (aka Bob Weinstein) wants a third Halloween movie and wants it in less than a year and wants it in 3-D, then it is significantly better news that possibly the best candidate is coming forward to direct it. Patrick Lussier, who made the splatteringly good horror flick My Bloody Valentine is the odds-on favorite to win the job, taking over for Rob Zombie. Fangoria reports that Lussier would write and direct, and since his Valentine was the best use of the new 3-D I've seen in a live action film, then it's a choice that's almost too good for the especially bad Halloween series. Lussier has a history with the Weinsteins going all the way back to the mid-1990s, when he served as an editor on Wes Craven's Scream. However, this will be his first writing gig in a while, and I'm not impressed by the trio of Dracula movies he has written in the past decade. So this one's not quite out of the woods yet. Curiously, Dimension is hiring a legit screenwriter, Ehren Kruger, to write a new version of Children of the Corn, so clearly there's some importance placed on the writing of these things. Can't any established genre writer help out the Michael Myers movies? Because they could use the help.