What’s next for David Gordon Green now that he’s done with the Halloween franchise? He’s getting possessed by The Exorcist, with a reboot/legacy sequel trilogy in the works.
Gordon Green is directing a brand new sequel for Universal, Blumhouse and Morgan Creek that will pave the way for a planned trilogy. The first film in the trilogy will be released theatrically on October 13, 2023, and filming is set to begin in the coming weeks.
“We start in a couple of weeks, and we’re ready to roll up our sleeves and dive into the next great franchise,” Gordon Green told Variety just last week. “We’ve got an amazing cast coming together and scripts we’re all excited about.”
He continues, “[I’m] honored to step into something that’s so valuable within cinema history. And knowing that there is a fanbase that is curious, aware, alert, potentially concerned to see what we’re up to. What I like is, people say, ‘Is it stressful?’ No, it’s exciting because I spent so much of my life making movies, and you’re just begging an audience to tune in, or see what’s going on, or buy tickets to the movie. With these, I’ve got stories to tell, I’ve got an imagination to express, and the way I can do that within these movies is an incredible opportunity.”
Ann Dowd (Hereditary) is also on board to star.
The first plot details we were provided with last year tease, “Odom Jr. will play the father of a possessed child. Desperate for help, he tracks down Ms. Burstyn’s character.”
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.
