We now have our first look at the upcoming The Exorcist: Believer legacy sequel from the creative team that brought us the recent Halloween trilogy. Following on directly from the 1973 horror movie classic, the sequel will take the same approach as Halloween, skipping all subsequent sequels. No doubt following on from the seminal original is sure to be on heck of a task. Check out the newly released trailer for The Exorcist: Believer below courtesy of Blumhouse.
Directed by William Friedkin, written for the screen by William Peter Blatty, and based on his 1971 novel of the same name, The Exorcist terrified audiences when it landed on silver screens back in 1973. And it continues to terrify audiences still. The tale of a young girl possessed by a demon and her mother’s attempt to rescue her through an exorcism conducted by a pair of Catholic priests is hailed as one of the greatest horror movies of all time, and one of the few horror movies to be showered with Academy Award nominations upon release. Suddenly, the idea of crafting a direct follow-up becomes even more daunting…
Set to be helmed by David Gordon Green (Halloween, Halloween Kills, and Halloween Ends), from a screenplay he co-wrote with Peter Sattler, and from a story he co-authored with Scott Teems and Danny McBride, The Exorcist: Believer will follow the father of a possessed child. Desperate for help, he goes in search of someone who has had similar experiences, the mother from the 1973 original, Chris MacNeil.
Starring Leslie Odom Jr. (One Night in Miami…, Murder on the Orient Express), Ann Dowd (The Leftovers, Hereditary), Lidya Jewett (Good Girls), Olivia Marcum, Raphael Sbarge (Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, Once Upon a Time), Jennifer Nettles (Harriet), and Okwui Okpokwasili (Remote), the legacy sequel will also bring back Ellen Burstyn as Chris MacNeil.
Producer Jason Blum Knows The Exorcist Legacy Sequel Is a Risk
When the news first broke that a project based on The Exorcist was underway, it was not well by fans, many of whom believed that it would be a reboot of the 70s classic. Instead, The Exorcist will undergo the legacy sequel treatment, a very popular strategy these days. While this has been met more positively by horror fans, producer and CEO of Blumhouse Productions, Jason Blum, is still heavily aware of the risk involved in tackling such an iconic franchise. And spending so much doing it.
“The riskiest movie I have ever made for sure is not out yet. It’s ‘The Exorcist.’ Just because it’s so expensive,” Blum said earlier this year. “Usually the bar to success on everything we do because it’s inexpensive is incredibly low. For ‘The Exorcist,’ it’s high. It’s not high risk for Blumhouse. We’ve obviously already been paid, but it’s high risk for our partners. So when you ask me what the riskiest thing we’ve ever worked on is, I take that as for us or our financial partners. In the case of ‘The Exorcist,’ that would be the biggest one, because it’s a high risk for Universal.”
The Exorcist: Believer is scheduled to be released by Universal Pictures on October 13, 2023.
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