New Exorcist?

[OtherwiseKnownAs]

Already planning a trilogy? Well, maybe it won't be standing next to the Dark Universe in the annals of history.

 

[Doctor Jones]

*sigh*

Can we please get away from this legacy sequel or "continuation" that bring back the original actors with a new cast formula? It was fine a couple times, but now it's just lazy. Looking back in film history along with the trend of cinematic universes, this is gonna be a product of its time. It doesn't help with the rise of streaming services, companies are digging into their libraries to make content to incentivize viewers to sign up. This could just befall the same fate as current Star Trek. Just milked to death and watered down and homogenized.

 

[Closerframe]

Although I love the idea of a direct sequel—especially if Burstyn returns—a trilogy seems extremely premature. Not that I don’t trust Green‘s ability to make something special, I question why this needs to be three films.

Also, what can Burstyn’s character even help this new protagonist with?

 

[shauner111]

*sigh*

Can we please get away from this legacy sequel or "continuation" that bring back the original actors with a new cast formula? It was fine a couple times, but now it's just lazy. Looking back in film history along with the trend of cinematic universes, this is gonna be a product of its time. It doesn't help with the rise of streaming services, companies are digging into their libraries to make content to incentivize viewers to sign up. This could just befall the same fate as current Star Trek. Just milked to death and watered down and homogenized.

Everything is a product of its time. I will never understand that argument.

 

[Gothamsknight]

I'm surprise Linda Blair isn't involved. Well, yet.

 

[DarkKnight88]

I love the idea of one direct sequel, but a trilogy? We’ll see.

I also don’t get the plan of releasing the first one in theatres but the two sequels potentially straight to Paramount+. What’s the point of that? Is that their out to announce that now in case the first doesn’t do well in theatres?

 

[Sawyer]

The only issue I take with this, apart from inevitably nullifying the continuity of the TV series, is that setting this up as a trilogy from the get-go seems like hubris.

 

[Closerframe]

What’s the budget for these things even going to be? Halloween (2018) cost $10-15M and made $255M. I can’t imagine this costing more than that and the franchise isn’t even as popular, so it seems like whoever is representing Green, just tricked a bunch of stupid studio executives.

 

[chamber-music]

Horror movies are often cheap to make and get good box office returns which is why endless sequels get churned out for any successful ones.

 

[DarkKnight88]

I'm surprise Linda Blair isn't involved. Well, yet.

Probably a guarantee the first will end on a cliffhanger.

“Get me the one person whose survived a possession of Pazuzu. Your daughter!”

Cue Linda Blair picking up a phone.

 

[Drizzle]

Although I love the idea of a direct sequel—especially if Burstyn returns—a trilogy seems extremely premature. Not that I don’t trust Green‘s ability to make something special, I question why this needs to be three films.

Also, what can Burstyn’s character even help this new protagonist with?

I love the idea of one direct sequel, but a trilogy? We’ll see.

I also don’t get the plan of releasing the first one in theatres but the two sequels potentially straight to Paramount+. What’s the point of that? Is that their out to announce that now in case the first doesn’t do well in theatres?

The only issue I take with this, apart from inevitably nullifying the continuity of the TV series, is that setting this up as a trilogy from the get-go seems like hubris.

Ray still has the occult books store! Glad that GB2 is still canon.

I'm sure that the decision to make this a trilogy was solely based on Green's Halloween films being a trilogy. There was probably a treatment that they liked and made the decision to split it in three parts, because money.

I'll still more than likely check this out, and quite appropriately in this case, I've never seen any of the other Exorcist sequels. I think the original film is mostly good, but apart from some one or two very unsettling scenes such as the infamous crucifix moment and the spider walk down the stairs, I really wasn't that scared of it. In fact, there were more than a few times where I laughed at it the first time I saw it but that was probably more due to the fact that I was 15 years old at the time.

 

[Pennywise]

 

[Sawyer]

I’ll be curious to know the extent to which the world knows about what happened to Regan. On the TV series, Chris MacNeil’s film career hit a wall and she wrote a book about their ordeal and it eventually got to a point where Regan changed her name just to get away from it all.

If this film centers on a desperate father tracking Chris down, obviously the world knows something happened there, but I wonder (1) how, and (2) how much?

 

[DarkKnight88]

Considering they're planning three films, there's no way they won't include Regan. Whether that means Linda Blair comes back, or a new actress plays the role, is the question.

 

[Alien Anal]

She will totally be back. It's early days, they are just keeping us interested.

 

[:eek:]

New "Exorcist" Set For October 2023 - Dark Horizons

 

[Sawyer]

Iconic.

 

[The Lazarus Pit]

The third one is my favorite for sure

 

[The Lazarus Pit]

*sigh*

Can we please get away from this legacy sequel or "continuation" that bring back the original actors with a new cast formula? It was fine a couple times, but now it's just lazy. Looking back in film history along with the trend of cinematic universes, this is gonna be a product of its time. It doesn't help with the rise of streaming services, companies are digging into their libraries to make content to incentivize viewers to sign up. This could just befall the same fate as current Star Trek. Just milked to death and watered down and homogenized.

I love this new trend. I’m all for it.

 

[DarkKnight88]

Yeah, I'd rather a legacy sequel with some actors from the past over a complete reboot personally.

 

[Pennywise]

Exorcist Reboot Will Feel New But Connected To Original Says Jason Blum

The company has since started development on a trilogy of films rebooting The Exorcist, and in an interview with CinePop, Blum expresses confidence in his approach. He says they intend to do for Friedkin's film what they did for Carpenter's Halloween, and wipe the slate of sequels clean to rediscover what is interesting and successful about the original. This is evidenced, Blum says, by having the same creative team tackle this project:

What I hope to do with The Exorcist is the same thing we did with Halloween, you know. Halloween, the first movie was great, and the second movie was okay, and the rest of them were not very good. And then we came in and kind of re-jiggered it, and people liked it, so I hope we can do the same thing with The Exorcist. Everyone thinks we're gonna fall on our face, but I think, we have the same filmmaker, the same writer, David Gordon Green and Danny McBride. And I think we'll reinvent The Exorcist so that it'll feel fresh, new, different, but, you know, related to the first movie, but also really, really scary

 

[Closerframe]

The Exorcist: Ellen Burstyn May Have Already Filmed Her Part

 

[shauner111]

I don’t trust this crew with a slow burn like Exorcist. Expecting quips everywhere.

 

[Pennywise]

‘The Exorcist’ Adds Ann Dowd To Universal Blumhouse Sequel – Deadline

 

[Erik20]

They'll probably ignore the tv show, which is a shame. Go watch it if you haven't already, it's surprisingly good. I'm still mad it was canceled