It’s early February in Charleston, South Carolina, and it’s Halloween.Not really, of course, but on this quiet, tree-lined street, you’d be forgiven for believing it’s already late October. There are pumpkins on porches and ghost decorations taped up on houses. Nearby, a woman is tearing up sheets to make more. And across the street, huddled in conversation, are two figures who have been linked with the holiday for the past 40 years: John Carpenter and Jamie Lee Curtis.They’re here to film Halloween, a sequel to Carpenter’s 1978 slasher classic of the same name. Carpenter is an executive producer and a creative consultant on the new Halloween — as well as one of the film’s composers — and Curtis is stepping back into the role of Laurie Strode, which she hasn’t done since the character was killed off with a shrug in 2002’s Halloween: Resurrection. It’s been even longer since Laurie was front and center in 1998’s Halloween H20.That was 20 years after the original Halloween; this is 40. And the 2018 Halloween — directed by David Gordon Green, with a script by Green, Jeff Fradley, and Danny McBride — has nothing to do with H20, or any of the sequels…