TRICK 'R TREAT Was Originally Supposed To Be Directed By Horror Movie Icons

Before writer and director Michael Dougherty helmed every segment in the classic 2009 Halloween film Trick 'r Treat, he had a different plan for the horror anthology. 

Early on in development, he had sent VFX master Stan Winston his animated short film that the movie would be based on, and Winston jumped on board to produce the film! Winston managed to wrangle up a crazy talented group of iconic horror directors, each one would have directed a different segment of the film. 

During an interview on the podcast Post Mortem With Mick Garris, Dougherty revealed the details and explained that this early version of the project fell apart because there were no studios at the time interested in funding an anthology horror film. When talking about Winston's vision, Dougherty said:

“But the way he wanted to do with it was a traditional anthology, where you go out and get a director for each one. So he assembled, at the time, George Romero, John Carpenter and Tobe Hooper. What a lineup, right? Took it out… nobody wanted to touch it.”

With a line-up of directors like that, it seems like complete lunacy that no studio wanted to be involved with it! In the end, Dougherty ended up directing the entire film and it turned out amazing! I couldn't have asked for anything better. However, I am very interested to know how the film would have turned out with these other directors each tackling a different segment of the movie. 

Trick 'r Treat is my favorite Halloween flick of all time and Dougherty recently said that he'll start work on the sequel after he's finished with Godzilla: King of the Monsters.

Would you have liked to see Romero, Carpenter, and Hooper direct some of the segments in Trick 'r Treat?