David Gordon Green In Talks To Direct An ‘Exorcist’ Sequel For Blumhouse
David Gordon Green, the filmmaker who rebooted theHalloweenfranchise with 2018’s legacy sequelHalloween, is turning his attention to another classic horror property.
A new report says that Green is in talks to direct a sequel to director William Friedkin’s 1973 classicThe Exorcistfor Morgan Creek and Blumhouse. Here’s what we know so far.
/Film had previously heard the same rumblings about a David Gordon GreenExorcistmovie, but we were unable to get a second source to confirm the information.Observermanaged to lock down the story, though, and now the site reports thatJason Blum,David Robinson, andJames Robinsonwill serve as producers on the new film. Blumhouse, of course, is the company behind 2018’sHalloween, which relaunched that franchise and sparked two more upcoming sequels, next year’sHalloween Killsand 2022’sHalloween Ends.
There’s no word yet about when David Gordon Green will get rolling on this sequel, or what exactly it might entail. Will it address the events of the sequel films, or pretend like they never happened? That remains a mystery, too. Most of the primary actors who appeared in the original movie have passed away, butEllen BurstynandLinda Blair, who played the worried mother and possessed daughter at the center of the first story, are still working, so perhaps Green intends to bring them back into the action in the same way he incorporated Jamie Lee Curtis into the latestHalloweentale. I’m just speculating here, but I wonder if the demonic entity known as Pazuzu could return to torment the same family all these years later, or if the family might be called into a new possession situation as experts who have dealt with this scenario before.
Earlier this summer,word came outthat Morgan Creek, the brand’s rights holder, was developing anExorcistreboot intended for theatrical release in 2021. Morgan Creekpromised five years agothat they would never attempt to remake the movie, but they made no such promise about the possibility of continuing the story in a new film. In 2017, Morgan Creek Entertainment Group expressed a desire for the original creators of their library’s titles to bestow their blessings upon any new versions or continuations of classic properties, but according to Observer, William Friedkin will not be involved with this new project. At this point, it is unclear if Friedkin gave this new sequel his blessing and decided not to be involved, or if he wasn’t consulted at all.
