Tommy Doyle, the boy Jamie Lee Curtis’s Laurie Strode was babysitting in 1978’s Halloween, is returning for David Gordon Green and Danny McBride’s sequel to their lovely little Halloween-kinda-reboot-but-also-sequel. And somehow he’s not being played by Paul Rudd.
According to Variety, the now-adult Doyle will be played by Anthony Michael Hall, himself an oft-reinvented product from decades ago. Rudd previously played a grown Tommy in 1995’s fairly awful Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, but—despite the fact that both director David Gordon Green and co-writer Danny McBride have worked with Rudd across multiple films—somehow he isn’t being re-recruited for the new chapter.
Sure, Rudd’s sequel is non-canon for the new films, but it still feels like a wasted opportunity, yeah? Our only solace is that Paul Rudd will finally feel the mild consequences of not at all looking like he was born the year before Tommy Doyle was meant to be born in.
So best of luck to Hall, who is somehow only one year older—nearly to the day—than the un-aging bastard that is Paul Rudd.
