Could Laurie Strode return someday? Jamie Lee Curtis says 'never say never'

The last time we saw Michael Myers terrorizing Jamie Lee Curtis as her iconic "final girl" Laurie Strode was in the highly polarizing 2022 film Halloween Ends, a conclusion to the reboot trilogy started in 2018 from director David Gordon Green.

Halloween Ends seemingly wraps up the storylines of Laurie and Michael for good. Laurie and the townspeople of Haddonfield literally put his body in an industrial shredder and viewers are privy to a grisly shot of his innards getting torn apart inside. He's dead and gone. At least for now. As for Laurie, she's last seen writing her memoir and reconciling with her love interest, Deputy Frank Hawkins.

But in a world where Jason Voorhees can go to space, I don't think we can ever safely say that Michael Myers won't be back somehow someday. And Curtis appears to agree.

During a recent exclusive conversation with Entertainment Weekly, she confidently said she had "relinquished" her character "with a warm, 'aloha,' and a thanks for all the years and memories," after the outlet asked her if she was really done with the long-running slasher franchise begun by John Carpenter in 1978. Halloween Ends certainly felt like a permanent sign-off for all of the characters.

However, Curtis is savvy enough in this genre and industry to know you never really know. In the final moments of the call with EW, she herself said, "If I’ve learned anything in my 65 years on the planet, it’s never say never." And in fitting Curtis fashion, she then said goodbye and hung up the call without expanding on her thoughts.

She's right, though! No one was anticipating the 2018 Halloween to happen, especially with Curtis back as Laurie when her character notably died in Halloween: Resurrection. But then the 2018 trilogy retconned basically the entire franchise, making it an official sequel to the 1978 movie.

So, who knows? Maybe in another 10 years Hollywood will revive Michael yet again.