The documented story.

●ESTABLISHEDDon Post Studios owned a foam master made from a life cast of William Shatner’s head.[1]

◇DISPUTEDAccounts differ on whether the cast was made for Star Trek or for The Devil’s Rain.[2]

×MYTHNo evidence says Shatner sat for Don Post Studios or approved the mask.[3]

●ESTABLISHEDDon Post Studios released a Paramount-licensed Star Trek mask line in 1975.[4]

●ESTABLISHEDBill Malone sculpted the Captain Kirk and Spock masks.[5]

◒REPORTEDThe flesh-toned Kirk mask had brown hair, pronounced sideburns, and Don Post markings in the neck.[6]

◒REPORTEDContemporary accounts describe the Kirk mask as a poor seller.[7]

●ESTABLISHEDIn 1978 Tommy Lee Wallace bought a Captain Kirk mask and an Emmett Kelly clown mask from a shop on Hollywood Boulevard.[8]

◒REPORTEDCarpenter identified the shop as Bert Wheeler’s magic shop; the official franchise site spells the name Burt.[9]

◒REPORTEDThe official account gives the Kirk mask’s price as $1.98.[10]

●ESTABLISHEDWallace described enlarging the eyeholes, removing the sideburns, darkening and mussing the hair, and spray-painting the face white.[11]

◒REPORTEDEyebrow removal appears in a later documentary account but not in Wallace’s 2008 or 2016 descriptions.[12]

×MYTHThe mask was not turned inside out.[13]

◇DISPUTEDDon Post Studios separately claimed it modified the mask and received $150.[14]

●ESTABLISHEDThe screenplay asked for “the pale, neutral features of a man” and dark, empty eye sockets.[15]

●ESTABLISHEDNick Castle was the principal masked performer credited by the film.[16]

●ESTABLISHEDTony Moran played the briefly unmasked Michael; Wallace, James Winburn, Debra Hill, and others wore the mask for specific shots.[17]

◒REPORTEDFan research identifies three masks used during production.[18]

●ESTABLISHEDThe original hero mask was reused in Halloween II and worn by Dick Warlock.[19]

◒REPORTEDRick Sternbach said Don Post Studios identified and supplied additional Kirk masks to the sequel.[20]

◒REPORTEDThe deteriorated screen-used mask survives in the private collection of Mark Roberts.[21]

●ESTABLISHEDDon Post Studios was refused a Michael Myers license in 1981.[22]

●ESTABLISHEDIts unlicensed 1986 product was a new Neil Surges sculpt made from the Shatner foam master.[23]

●ESTABLISHEDA federal court held Don Post’s asserted copyright invalid and found its mask copied the film mask.[24]

●ESTABLISHEDA 2001 ruling called the suit frivolous and objectively unreasonable and awarded fees to Cinema Secrets.[25]

◒REPORTEDCollector Mark Roberts reportedly acquired the screen-used mask from Dick Warlock around 2003.[26]

●ESTABLISHEDTrick or Treat Studios released a CBS-licensed recreation of the 1975 Kirk mask in 2017.[27]

●ESTABLISHEDThe mask made for the 2018 film was a new Christopher Nelson and Vincent Van Dyke sculpt.[28]

◒REPORTEDShatner had publicly discussed the connection by early 2008.[29]

●ESTABLISHEDHe said he wore a Michael Myers mask while trick-or-treating with his children.[30]

●ESTABLISHEDHis remembered first reaction was: “Is that a joke? Are they kidding?”[31]

●ESTABLISHEDShatner said he has no financial stake in the film.[32]