If you get rid of Haloween Kills, Michael gets burned up at the end of Halloween but escapes to the sewers where he chills for a few years to get back in killing form and heal (yeah, they did that before between Haloween 4 and 5 I think?). Everyone else goes on with their lives. You can still have the Corey storyline, and even that Corey interaction with Michael, which finally brings Michael out of the sewers. My issue is, given how unstoppable and immortal Michael was at the end of Kills, why was he so weak at the start of this film? Michael’a fate at the junkyard was a little bit of overkill IMO. Probably something JLC put in her contract in order for her to sign on for this trilogy. I seem to remember that was part of her deal for H2O too even though it didn’t end up working out when they put out the awful Resurrection film.