{"id":6875,"date":"2009-10-26T19:31:15","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T19:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=6875"},"modified":"2009-10-26T19:31:15","modified_gmt":"2009-10-26T19:31:15","slug":"william-shatner-and-the-halloween-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2009\/10\/26\/william-shatner-and-the-halloween-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"William Shatner and the Halloween Mask"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Shatner<\/a><\/p>\n

The Michael Myers<\/a> mask in the Halloween<\/a> films is actually a reused one based on William Shatner<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A few years ago – back when Wikipedia and Google weren’t available on people’s mobile phones – I remember telling this to someone and they didn’t believe it.<\/p>\n

However, aside from being on the IMDb<\/a> and Wikipedia<\/a>, Shatner himself has confirmed it in this video with his daughter. He even admits to once going out trick or treating in one.<\/p>\n

<\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n

Tommy Lee Wallace<\/a>, the production designer and co-editor on Halloween, said that he was charged with finding a mask for Myers in the original film.<\/p>\n

Aiming for a mask with a creepy ‘blank face’ he went shopping for one in Hollywood and found a Captain Kirk Halloween mask that seemed to fit the bill.<\/p>\n

Wallace cut out larger eyeholes, removed the eyebrows and sideburns, and made the hair look weirder and painted it white.<\/p>\n

\"Halloween<\/a><\/p>\n

For most of the film Myers, or ‘The Shape’ as he’s referred to in the credits, is played by actor Nick Castle<\/a> (above).<\/p>\n

In the DVD extras on the Halloween DVD box set<\/a> John Carpenter claimed that the mask didn’t really look like Shatner,\u00a0but joked:<\/p>\n

“I guess I owe the success of Halloween to William Shatner.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The inspiration for the ‘faceless’ style was the creepy French film Eyes Without a Face<\/a>, directed in 1960 by Georges Franju<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Michael Myers mask in the Halloween films was actually based on William Shatner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[619,1056],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6875"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}