Summary

• Halloween TV show may fix a major franchise mistake by bringing back Dr. Wynn.
• Dr. Wynn's new storyline could rewrite the franchise's worst timeline: the Cult of Thorn.
• The show can also answer a 46-year-old plot hole about Michael Myers and his ability to drive a car.

The Halloween franchise is expanding with a TV show that will go back to the original movie, and thanks to this and one often-forgotten character, the show can fix one of the franchise’s biggest mistakes. Back in 1979, John Carpenter brought Halloween, which would become key in the development of the slasher genre as well as a horror classic. Halloween also made way for a franchise with 10 movies and two remakes, as well as different timelines, each one giving different explanations for Michael Myers’ evil actions and with different outcomes for his Final Girls.

The Halloween franchise recently went through a reboot trilogy that served as a direct continuation of Carpenter’s original movie, thus ignoring all the sequels. Despite starting strong with Halloween (2018), the reboot trilogy quickly went downhill with Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends, but even though the latter was disappointing, it gave a proper ending to the story of Michael Myers and Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis). However, Halloween Ends won’t be the end of the saga, as the franchise is now expanding with a TV show that can finally fix the franchise’s biggest mistake by bringing back one forgotten character.

Halloween TV Show Can Give Dr. Wynn A New Story

Dr. Wynn was given one of the franchise’s most controversial storylines.

The Halloween TV show could focus on characters from the original movie that the reboot didn’t bring back.

What’s known so far about the Halloween TV show is that it will go back to Carpenter’s original movie and use that as its basis. Miramax’s Head of Worldwide Television, Marc Helwig, teased that the Halloween TV show could focus on characters from the original movie that the reboot didn’t bring back. The plans for the Halloween TV show are intriguing, more so as there are few characters from Carpenter’s 1978 who weren’t brought back in the reboot trilogy.

Aside from Michael Myers and Laurie Strode, Tommy Doyle, Lindsey Wallace, Leigh Brackett, Marion Chambers, and Lonnie Elam were all brought back in, at least, one of the reboot movies. However, there’s one character from the first Halloween movie who wasn’t brought back in the reboot trilogy but came back in Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers and its sequels, and was key in bringing to life the franchise’s most hated and controversial storyline: Dr. Wynn and the Cult of Thorn.

Dr. Wynn was brought back in Halloween 4 as the mysterious “Man in Black".

Dr. Wynn was introduced in Halloween 1978, but his appearance was brief. Dr. Wynn was the of Smith’s Grove Sanitarium, where Michael Myers spent 15 years of his life after he killed his sister, Judith. In Halloween 1978, Wynn was shown talking to Dr. Loomis after Michael Myers’ escape, discussing how he could have escaped. Dr. Wynn was brought back in Halloween 4 as the mysterious “Man in Black”, with his identity revealed in Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers.

Wynn went from the of Smith’s Grove Sanitarium to the leader of the Cult of Thorn, and thus part of the group responsible for Michael Myers’ many crimes. By focusing on him in the Halloween TV show, the franchise can give him a completely different story unrelated to the Cult of Thorn, and can either make him an antagonist or an ally, as a replacement for Dr. Loomis.

Halloween TV Show Can Rewrite The Franchise’s Worst Timeline

Halloween’s original timeline was ruined in Halloween 6.

By giving Dr. Wynn a new role and storyline in the Halloween TV show, it can change the timeline and erase the Cult of Thorn.

By focusing on Dr. Wynn and giving him a new and better storyline, the Halloween TV show can rewrite the franchise’s worst timeline. The original Halloween timeline turned Dr. Wynn into the leader of the Cult of Thorn, making him responsible for most of Michael Myers’ killing sprees. The Cult of Thorn was a cult of druids who helped the supernatural force known as Thorn find a host, which it drives to kill their family. In the time of the Druids, one child from each tribe would be chosen to be possessed by Thorn, and they would then sacrifice their family on the night of Samhain.

Michael Myers was chosen for it, hence why he killed his family and others. The Cult of Thorn took everything that made Michael Myers scary and was nothing more than an unnecessary addition to the franchise that made little to no sense. By giving Dr. Wynn a new role and storyline in the Halloween TV show, it can change the timeline and erase the Cult of Thorn, though it would have to find a clever way to retcon it if it doesn’t want to create another timeline.

Dr. Wynn In The New Halloween TV Show Can Answer A 46-Year-Old Plot Hole

Halloween 1978 left a weird Michael Myers plot hole.

Michael was extremely reclusive, yet when he escaped, he had no problem driving a car.

A franchise as extensive as Halloween isn’t safe from plot holes, and one that continues to be a topic of debate among fans is the driving plot hole. Michael Myers was sent to Smith Grove’s Sanitarium when he was six years old and spent 15 years there. Michael was extremely reclusive, yet when he escaped, he had no problem driving a car. Given Dr. Wynn’s involvement with the Cult of Thorn, it has been theorized that he taught Michael how to drive, but the Halloween novelization explained that he learned by watching Loomis drive.

Focusing on Dr. Wynn in the Halloween TV show can finally solve this plot hole, whether by making him a villain who taught Michael Myers how to drive or making him an ally and giving another explanation of how he knew how to drive.