Drive Angry 3D may not have been a blockbuster hit in theaters, but its fun mix of supernatural horror, humor, and high-octane car chases should win a much bigger audience when it hits DVD and Blu-ray on Tuesday May 31. Hopefully that'll help move things along on writer Todd Farmer and director Patrick Lussier's (pictured above from left to right) Halloween III and Hellraiser, both of which the two gentlemen just spoke to me about. Check out our conversation after the jump.

What can we expect from Michael Myers in Halloween III?

Lussier: Todd and I wrote it to be a continuation of Zombie's Halloween II and the set-up for the franchise that he did, a sort of reboot of that. Then take it back to the roots of John Carpenter and create a scenario that echoes the first film, the late ‘70s film that John made. And going back to the tone of Carpenter and the fun that his movie had, and how much you really liked all the characters and how compelling they are. That to us was the reason to do it. Both of us love the original Halloween and remember seeing it in the theater for the first time and being completely terrified and blown away by it. It's been repeated so many times – there's pieces of the original Halloween in Halloween H2O. That was something we were very excited to do. The script's still out there. We're waiting for Dimension Films to decide that's what they want to make next. We spoke recently about it and voiced our passion for the project.

Farmer: We took Zombie's story and we continued that story without breaking the rules, without cheating. We kept it in the world that he did. But our goal was to return to a John Carpenter tone. And while Zombie created a Michael Myers that was sort of a T-Rex – and I appreciate that; it was something different – at the same time I always felt Halloween was one of the movies that made me what I am. So I've always loved the fact that Michael was a prick and devious in the way he operated. He was The Shape. Which we're continuing in a fun way – part Zombie and part Carpenter.

In returning to the Carpenter tone, is the film not likely to be in 3D?

Lussier: When they originally asked us to do it, they wanted it in 3D. Whether it's 3D or not now, I have no idea. That's for the grown-ups. We conceived it to work either way. Story comes first. So the story will work whether it's shot in 2D or 3D. If it's shot in 3D, we'll put a little 3D rollercoaster in it so that everybody can get a blast out of it. That's always up to those who paid for it. [Laughs.]

Farmer: It's a Halloween movie, and of course we're thrilled and can't wait to do it. We wrote it before going into production on Drive Angry, and the plan was to shoot it before Drive Angry. But it just turned out to be impossible. At this point now, all the focus is on Hellraiser. And as soon as we're done with Hellraiser then hopefully we can roll right onto Halloween.

Hellraiser is another major horror franchise reboot. Can you give us a status update?

Lussier: Yeah, we're working through it right now, the story. Hellraiser has a very complex mythology. It's different then Halloween and Friday the 13^th. Different than A Nightmare on Elm Street even. There's a real uniqueness to the world that is created and how that world works. The world is created by a true artist – that was obviously a very personal vision for Clive [Barker].  And as such it's something that we've been approaching carefully. We've been playing around and crafting how the world will work in a newer version. How the characters will interact with it and how it will either act with or overwhelm the characters. [Laughs.] We've very excited by it. It's something that we're taking our time with. We want to make sure that it feels like the best version we can tell.

Farmer: Certainly what we don't want to do is retell the Clive story. The Clive story is a very personal story, and we didn't want to do that. What we want to do is take that world and continue that story. Pinhead is an iconic character. And you can't do Hellraiser rated PG-13 – you can only do Hellraiser rated R. As far as we're concerned, it's impossible to do it without Doug [Bradley]. But we'll see what happens.

Can you say where another project of yours, Condition Dead, is right now?

Lussier: Yeah, that's sort of dormant. I'm not really sure, to be honest, what's happening with that. There was a period of time a couple of years ago where it looked like it was gonna get made. And now I'm not so sure it will. It's a really fun concept, sort of a very militaristic version of a zombie story, about a squad that travels the world, dealing with specific outbreaks. They did a great job with the script, and it looks like a great movie to make, but it's a matter of timing and finding the right time in the never-ending zombie cycle to do that.

We have another project that we've been involved with, for which we re-wrote a script, which is a lot of fun, called Already Dead. It's this great supernatural courtroom thriller that goes in all different sorts of unexpected directions and has a lot of violence, sex and mayhem in it.