Jamie Lee Curtis Likely Would Have Passed on Jason Blum’s ‘Halloween’ Sequel If She Knew It Was a Trilogy. So, She Used It to Get a Development Deal

Mar 14, 2026 1:59pm PT Jamie Lee Curtis Likely Would Have Passed on Jason Blum’s ‘Halloween’ Sequel If She Knew It Was a Trilogy. So, She Used It to Get a Development Deal By Emily Longeretta Plus Icon Emily Longeretta emilylongeretta Latest Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick’s Meta Comedy Horror ‘Family Movie’ Draws Massive Laughs at SXSW Debut 19 hours ago How ‘One Chicago’ Pulled Off an Epic Crossover to Score a Season High of 6.4 Million Viewers 1 week ago ‘Full Speed’ Takes on Daytona 500 in First Look as Netflix Series Shifts to Feature-Length Film on Prime Video 2 weeks ago See All Jamie Lee Curtis didn’t know she was about to take on three more “Halloween” movies when she said yes to David Gordon Green’s 2018 film, the sequel to her 1978 film. During a SXSW panel titled, “If Not Now, When, if Not Me, Who? Pivoting and Manifesting,” Curtis opened up about filmmaking and her career as an actress and producer. She first named her appreciation for Jason Blum. “The only reason I am sitting in this chair today is because of Jason. Jason Blum, who runs Blumhouse, is the one who brought back the ‘Halloween’ movies,” she said. However, when she got the call, she thought it was one movie and didn’t hear until way later that they were planning to do more. “If they had come to me and said it’s going to be a trilogy, I don’t think I would have said yes,” she said. “Jason Blum is notoriously cheap. How do you make low-budget movies? You don’t pay people. That’s the model.” Popular on Variety So, she used it to her advantage. “While we were editing and doing the mix, David said, ‘You know it’s a trilogy.’ I was like, ‘Uh, no.’ I went to Jason Blum and said, ‘I have some ideas, maybe you could give me a first look deal, just pay me a little money,'” she recalls. “I said to Jason, ‘How about a little development deal?’ And I owed him two ‘Halloween’ movies, so what was he gonna say?” Curtis wanted the extra money to pay Russell Goldman, a filmmaker who was working with her to try...