Jamie Lee Curtis reveals cryptic teaser for ‘Halloween’ future after final film

The last (and yet most appropriate) thing you’d expect to receive on Halloween is a cold call from the OG Final Girl, Jamie Lee Curtis.

But moments after Weekly entertainment sent a request to the star’s team for more information about the Oscar-winning actress’ involvement in the production of filmmaker Zeberiah Newman’s upcoming documentary about ’90s fitness icon Susan Powter, as well as Laurie Strode herself, Halloween franchise star took matters into his own hands.

At the end of a broad discussion about stepping into her power via her own production company, Comet Pictures, and several upcoming projects (also e.g. Freakier Friday, The missing busand the series starring Nicole Kidman Scarpettawhich she’s currently shooting in Nashville, Tenn.), we ended our conversation with a look back (and forward) at the 65-year-old’s legacy with the John Carpenter-created slasher franchise.

“I’ve hung up my bell bottoms and my light blue button-down shirt, and I’ve relinquished (Laurie) to the times with a warm ‘aloha’ and a thank you for all the years and memories,” Curtis tells EW when asked whether she is really done with it Halloween movie series forever, after the 2022s Halloween ends — billed as the final installment of director David Gordon Green’s revival of the classic three-film series that began with 2018’s Halloween — dealt what felt like a fatal, permanent blow to any potential for masked serial killer Michael Myers to return for more mayhem.

“And yet,” Curtis continues, “if I’ve learned anything in my 65 years on the planet, it’s never say never. Goodbye.” And then she promptly hung up without another word.

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The horror icon has played Laurie Strode, Myers’ sister, seven times throughout her career, including in her breakout role in the first Halloween movie in 1978.

To date, the franchise (which also includes several films not starring Curtis, including filmmaker Rob Zombie’s 2007 reboot attempt) has grossed nearly $900 million at the box office with Green’s 2018 revival — which reintroduced Laurie as a traumatized doomsday recluse with a daughter (Judy Greer) and granddaughter (Andi Matichak) — pulling the biggest haul of the entire collection with $260 million globally.

In an EW cover story for the 2018 film, Curtis told us she endured an intense emotional reckoning as she revisited the trauma Myers inflicted on Laurie over the years. “I started crying the day I arrived,” she said at the time. “I didn’t stop crying until the day I left.”