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Taking Shape II

The Lost Halloween Sequels

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Taking Shape II

By: Dustin McNeill, Travis Mullins
Narrated by: Christian Francis
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Authors Dustin McNeill and Travis Mullins are back to bring you an inside look at 24 lost Halloween sequels you never saw on the big screen! Learn about these fascinating unmade visions direct from their creators, many of whom have never spoken publicly on the subject before.

With a running time of over 24 hours, Taking Shape II is brimming with untold franchise history. The journey begins with an insightful foreword by Halloween: 25 Years of Terror producer Anthony Masi.

So, what are you waiting for? Grab the candy corn and settle in for the lost Halloween sequels!

Taking Shape II covers:

  • An alternate Halloween 3 pitched decades after the first one
  • Three unused versions of Halloween 4 - one with Laurie Strode!
  • Exclusive details on an early Halloween 5 - with evil Jamie Lloyd!
  • The Halloween 6 nearly produced by Quentin Tarantino!
  • An early version of Halloween 7 before it became H20!
  • Three different sequels to Halloween: Resurrection!
  • Insight into how a crossover with Hellraiser almost came to be!
  • Two different stabs at a 3D sequel in the Rob Zombie era!
  • A reboot with two shapes! (And another with 100!)
  • A reboot that introduced the Halloween multi-verse!
©2020 Dustin McNeill (P)2020 Mark Alan Miller Entertainment & Performing Arts Film & TV History & Criticism
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I found myself questioning if there was 21+ hours worth of unmade Halloween movie material when I saw this audiobook. The first Taking Shape was incredible, and I wasn't sure if this one could measure up to it. Now that I've finished, I find myself wanting MORE! This is indeed a worthy follow up to the first book. I am now seriously upset that most of these scripts were unused. Hopefully, once this Blumhouse Halloween Trilogy is complete, they will go back and use some of these scripts (Platinum's script, in particular). Excellent performance and content!!!

A must for die hard Halloween fan's!

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Its crazy what halloween sequels almost got greenlit and a shame some of them didn't see the light of day.

if you love john carpenter or a Halloween fanatic check these books out

crazy

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It’s just an awesome book. Great detail and interviews. Hope more franchises are in the future

Awesome

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I have primarily seen 1&2 of the original series and then the newest JC produced series. But I thoroughly enjoyed this book.
While I would have appreciated a page explaining the movies that did get made, most of it was pretty well covered in what didn't.
The two ideas I wish really had happened would have been the VS Hell-Raiser Idea (as it would have been a great explanation of several things in the series) and the Reboot Trilogy that would have created/ explained the Multiverse, long before that became a thing in movies (but long after it was in the comics lol)
The reader is good, though has a strong English Accent that might put some American listeners off. (and at least once says 999 for a story that happens in America and clearly would have been 911 even in the 80s lol)

Even if you've not seen all the movies READ THIS!!

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This is a must read for Halloween fans! It continues on from the also fantastic first book. Get both!

Just As Great As The First Book

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I like to think of myself as pretty knowledgeable about the Halloween franchise, but this book is loaded with so much info I’d not heard or read anywhere else. Top tier work.

Excellent Listen

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