That's the remake franchise that Rob Zombie started (but he's not coming back for part 3). I don't know about Carpenter being involved in it necessarily. IMDB lists him for the movie under the writer tab, but only lists him as "characters", rather than "writer/screenplay" or anything like that. My guess: he's just listed cause he's the one that created the characters and it's his idea, so they're crediting him? Not entirely sure. I doubt he'll be much involved though, much like he wasn't much involved with Zombie's Halloweens. Though him and Rob did talk and Carpenter gave Zombie pointers and such.