By the early '80s, the lead character of that serial, a Professor Quatermass, had returned to the screen in more serials and a trio of feature films.
The writer was qualified to write such a sci-fi horror concept, because almost thirty years earlier he had written a television serial titled The Quatermass Experiment, which told the story of a dangerous alien returning on the spacecraft after man's first flight into space. What Kneale wrote was described as "a pod movie", a reference to the "pod people" of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Wanting to separate Halloween III from its predecessors, Carpenter and producer Debra Hill hired British writer Nigel Kneale to craft a story that would exist in a different sub-genre of horror than a slasher.
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It's easier to switch things up after one movie than after two. If there hadn't been a Myers sequel before the anthology approach kicked in, maybe it would have had a better chance of working. It was a cool idea, but one which the audience almost immediately rejected. He had a different idea - he wanted to turn Halloween into an anthology franchise, with new sequels coming out on a regular basis that would have nothing to do with each other, but each one would be a horror story set around the Halloween holiday. John Carpenter didn't have a story to tell about masked slasher Michael Myers when he sat down to write Halloween II, so when the opportunity arose to make another sequel to his instant classic Halloween, Carpenter decided he wasn't even going to bother to do something with Michael Myers this time around.
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