When a movie franchise finds it necessary to reset its continuity not once, not twice, but four separate times over the course of 11 films, that's generally a sign that something has gone very, very wrong. But that's the story of the Halloween franchise, which will see its 11th movie hit theaters this weekend. While crafting the 2018 revitalization of Halloween, writer and director David Gordon Green, along with co-writer Danny McBride, had little choice but to wipe every sequel to John Carpenter's 1978 classic out of the canon.