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“Not Enough Money in the World’: Friedkin Assures He’s Not Involved With New Take on ‘The Exorcist’
After five films and two seasons of a really, really good television series that was cancelled too soon, Morgan Creek is reportedly working on a brand new feature film take on The Exorcist, which we first heard rumblings about this past summer. One person who won’t be involved with that reboot? William Friedkin, the director of the original horror classic.
Taking to Twitter this morning, Friedkin clarified that though IMDb lists him as being involved with the upcoming Morgan Creek movie, that couldn’t be further from the truth.
Friedkin tweets, “There’s a rumor on IMDB that I’m involved with a new version of The Exorcist. It’s a flat-out lie. There’s not enough money or motivation in the world to get me to do this.”
Friedkin has not been involved with the Exorcist franchise since he directed the original movie, though he was interviewed for the doc Leap of Faith, now streaming on Shudder.
The Exorcist franchise hasn’t been on the big screen since the 2005 release of Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist, an alternate version of the previous year’s Exorcist: The Beginning. Those films came in the wake of 1977’s The Exorcist II: The Heretic and 1990’s The Exorcist III.
More recently, “The Exorcist” became a short-lived television series at Fox, which was surprisingly excellent and cleverly took place in the same world as the original classic.
Alas, the series was cancelled after just two seasons.
Given its status as one of the most iconic horror films of all time, it’s quite frankly surprising that it’s taken this long for The Exorcist to return to theaters. Especially after the cancellation of the Fox series, it was only a matter of time. Stay tuned for more as we learn it.
There’s a rumor on IMDB that I’m involved with a new version
Of The Exorcist. This isn’t a rumor, it’s a flat-out lie.
There’s not enough money or motivation in the world
To get me to do this.— William Friedkin (@WilliamFriedkin) December 17, 2020
Paramount is heading to Sleepy Hollow with a brand new feature film take on the classic Headless Horseman tale, with Lindsey Anderson Beer (Pet Sematary: Bloodlines) announced to direct the movie back in 2022. But is that project still happening, now two years later?
The Hollywood Reporter lets us know this afternoon that Paramount Pictures has renewed its first-look deal with Lindsey Anderson Beer, and one of the projects on the upcoming slate is the aforementioned Sleepy Hollow movie that was originally announced two years ago.
THR details, “Additional projects on the development slate include… Sleepy Hollow with Anderson Beer attached to write, direct, and produce alongside Todd Garner of Broken Road.”
You can learn more about the slate over on The Hollywood Reporter. It also includes a supernatural thriller titled Here Comes the Dark from the writers of Don’t Worry Darling.
The origin of all things Sleepy Hollow is of course Washington Irving’s story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” which was first published in 1819. Tim Burton adapted the tale for the big screen in 1999, that film starring Johnny Depp as main character Ichabod Crane.
More recently, the FOX series “Sleepy Hollow” was also based on Washington Irving’s tale of Crane and the Headless Horseman. The series lasted four seasons, cancelled in 2017.
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