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Post by politicidal on Jul 24, 2021 15:01:28 GMT
The script is finished. TEXT: Director David Gordon Green has given an update on his new Exorcist movie that's in the works. In the latest issue of Total Film, the director reveals that the script for his reboot of the 1973 movie is finished – and it looks like it's a sequel than a complete retcon. "The Exorcist has been written. That was one of my pandemic projects. It’s not inaccurate [that it will be a sequel to the original film]. I like all the Exorcist movies," Green says. "And not only do I like them, I think they can all fall into the acceptable mythology for what I’m doing. It’s not like I’m saying, 'Pretend that The Exorcist 2 never happened.' That’s fine to exist. They’re all fine to exist, and I enjoy all of them." Based on William Peter Blatty’s novel of the same name, the original movie was directed by William Friedkin and starred big names like Ellen Burstyn, Jason Miller, and Linda Blair. It follows a 12-year-old girl who’s possessed by a mysterious entity and the lengths her mother and two Catholic priests go to in an attempt to save her. Green adds: "It’s another fun legacy to be a part of, and hopefully we’ll get that going in the near future. That one is a lot of research, rather than just impulsive screenwriting. That’s one that you talk to a lot of people. You read a lot of books, and do a shit-load of interviews. There was such a dramatic authenticity to what that original film is. It’s a lot more than I anticipated getting into it. And I guess I was naive to think that. But it was very exhilarating to be involved in a lot of those conversations that you find yourself in." The movie was nominated for 10 Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, and it won the gong for Best Adapted Screenplay. It earned $193 million globally, making it the highest-grossing R-rated horror movie of all time until 2017's It. No pressure, then. Green is no stranger to horror, or rebooting iconic franchises, though – he helmed 2018's Halloween and the upcoming Halloween Kills. While we wait for The Exorcist sequel-slash-reboot to hit the big screen, check out our list of the other upcoming horror movies to get excited about in 2021 and beyond. www.gamesradar.com/au/exorcist-reboot-director-david-gordon-green-says-the-movie-will-be-a-sequel-to-the-original/ |
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Post by masterofallgoons on Jul 24, 2021 16:15:08 GMT
Wow. So this very independent minded, genre jumping, abstract, auteur filmmaker is now just gonna make sequels to every familiar horror property? So strange.
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Post by Prime etc. on Jul 24, 2021 18:39:01 GMT
You can't get the big money unless you do franchises.
They don't say "what ideas do you have?"
They say "we want to revitalize the Halloween or Exorcist "brand" again. Are you interested?
He came from a well-to-family so he probably just wants to stay employed and in the limelight as a corporate Hollywood filmmaker.
The indie scene is no longer a priority in the Hollywood media circle. Sundance etc--no one cares about it now.
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Post by politicidal on Jul 27, 2021 12:49:54 GMT
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Post by masterofallgoons on Jul 27, 2021 13:27:59 GMT
Yeah crazy figure. And as far as I can tell that's just for distribution rights, not rights to the property itself. So they don't own The Exorcist, they just own the distribution of these three new movies. No word on budgets for these new movies either, but I imagine with that influx of cash the production company will spare no expense. |
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Post by Anonymous Andy on Jul 27, 2021 16:57:31 GMT
Ah yes, the planned trilogy. That always ends so well. |
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Post by Prime etc. on Jul 27, 2021 17:25:33 GMT
Linda Blair and/or Kitty Winn will appear in the sequels.
Guaranteed.
With that kind of money-you can bet they will dump a truckload on them so they can participate in the lameness of this.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Jul 27, 2021 18:32:11 GMT
Ah yes, the planned trilogy. That always ends so well. Makes sense financially, I guess... unless it doesn't. One large investment where your infrastructure, your crew, your sets, locations, cast, etc. are all in place from the beginning to the end and you can continuously shoot material for all 3 films at once. Basically you can shoot it like a series and release it like a film trilogy. If people like it and they make money it's the most efficient way to do it, but if people don't buy tickets then it's not a good way to do it at all. Some of those young adult book series adaptations found that out the hard way. |
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Post by Anonymous Andy on Jul 27, 2021 20:19:11 GMT
Ah yes, the planned trilogy. That always ends so well. Makes sense financially, I guess... unless it doesn't. One large investment where your infrastructure, your crew, your sets, locations, cast, etc. are all in place from the beginning to the end and you can continuously shoot material for all 3 films at once. Basically you can shoot it like a series and release it like a film trilogy. If people like it and they make money it's the most efficient way to do it, but if people don't buy tickets then it's not a good way to do it at all. Some of those young adult book series adaptations found that out the hard way. Is that how they're planning on filming it? I guess I skipped over that part. I was thinking more in the vein of Terminator sequels where they film one movie that's connected to a larger trilogy that will be shot only if the first film is a hit. But then the film is never a hit so they try it again. And again. And then we're left with a bunch of meaningless loose ends. Either way, I'll be (pleasantly?) surprised if it turns out there's a market for a new Exorcist trilogy. I just have my doubts. |
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Post by masterofallgoons on Jul 27, 2021 20:23:01 GMT
Makes sense financially, I guess... unless it doesn't. One large investment where your infrastructure, your crew, your sets, locations, cast, etc. are all in place from the beginning to the end and you can continuously shoot material for all 3 films at once. Basically you can shoot it like a series and release it like a film trilogy. If people like it and they make money it's the most efficient way to do it, but if people don't buy tickets then it's not a good way to do it at all. Some of those young adult book series adaptations found that out the hard way. Is that how they're planning on filming it? I guess I skipped over that part. I was thinking more in the vein of Terminator sequels where they film one movie that's connected to a larger trilogy that will be shot only if the first film is a hit. But then the film is never a hit so they try it again. And again. And then we're left with a bunch of meaningless loose ends. Either way, I'll be (pleasantly?) surprised if it turns out there's a market for a new Exorcist trilogy. I just have my doubts. I don't know if they're necessarily planning on shooting then all at once, but that was his plan with Halloween initially. He was gonna shoot the first 2 at the same time but then Blumhouse didn't wanna make the commitment for multiple movies without seeing how bankable the first would be. As I understand it they shot Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends at the same time. So I guess I'm kind of just leaping to a conclusion, but still if they pay one lump sum to the production company and at least retain a lot of the people for 3 films up front it's still more cost effective... again, assuming that the first one does well. |
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Post by simest on Aug 1, 2021 9:37:49 GMT
If HALLOWEEN (2018) is anything to go by, I won't expect much from this. It's also slightly worrying that Green "likes" and "enjoys" EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC.
I think he's just trying to be everybody's pal here rather than say there's a few movies in the series that are pretty poor and that he must aim to surpass and improve upon. The fact that he doesn't state something to this effect, for me also implies he's setting the bar pretty low for himself here.........and after HALLOWEEN, I can see why.
I'm going to guess they'll just call the movie THE EXORCIST (so it can ride nicely on the coat tails of the original's reputation and draw a crowd), then the latter two will have something unimaginative added on.......possibly concluding with EXORCIST ENDS! Hopefully however, they'll prove me wrong.
I think it's a pity Green's "pandemic projects" weren't kept to original works instead of picking at the carcass of series that ran their course many years ago.
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Post by jonesjxd on Aug 3, 2021 11:08:44 GMT
Wow. So this very independent minded, genre jumping, abstract, auteur filmmaker is now just gonna make sequels to every familiar horror property? So strange. That's what draws me to this phase of his career so much. I like that you can watch Halloween '18 and still see the same filmmaker that did movies like All The Real Girls and Snow Angels. All the characters feel like they have lives that extend further than the screen. Sure, the dinner scene where Lonnie is mentioned is fan service on the surface level, but also informs the characters and shows how tightly knit the town of Haddonfield still is in the aftermath of Halloween '62 and '78. People also talked about the more jokey scenes and how that had to have been Danny McBrides fingerprints on the script, but that type of humor has been present since George Washington and it's all purely human humor. I think he can bring a lot to Exorcist when he's done with Halloween.
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Post by Sarge on Aug 11, 2021 5:43:37 GMT
They already made a sequel TV series that was actually pretty good until they tried to get creative and turn it into a conspiracy.  |
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Post by politicidal on May 10, 2022 14:52:01 GMT
Green enlisted Halloween Kills co-writer Scott Teems to help develop the story for a new Exorcist, with Teems recently detailing how he and the rest of the team behind the project aimed to capture the terror of the original movie. Teems' latest film, Firestarter, hits Peacock and theaters on May 13th. "It's a different beast than Halloween because of the way it's revered in a different way," Teems detailed to ComicBook.com. "They both are massively successful and massively popular films, but there's something about The Exorcist that, for whatever reason, people look at it a little more like it's more of a 'film' as opposed to a 'movie,' or however you might want to say it. I feel more pressure in The Exorcist, but I also just, end of the day, we all vowed not to tell this story unless we could tell it in a way that we felt honored." He continued, "So we were breaking the story and trying to figure it all out well before there was any deal. Before we even tried to make a deal or to figure out the rights and all that, we wanted to be sure we could figure out a story. So that was our early COVID project, is every Friday morning during the beginning of COVID in early 2020 we would meet over Zoom, me and David and Danny [McBride], Jason Blum, and we would pitch ideas and we would bounce ideas around and I'd go off and write and David would go off and write and we'd come back together and pitch ideas and spent a couple of months doing that. And then we got this story we were excited about and presented it. So it wasn't until we were really sure … We didn't want to just do it to do it. We knew it had to be something we all believed in. And we did, we found it." comicbook.com/horror/news/the-exorcist-reboot-writer-reaction-interview-scott-teems-explained/ |
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Post by masterofallgoons on May 10, 2022 15:23:27 GMT
Green enlisted Halloween Kills co-writer Scott Teems to help develop the story for a new Exorcist, with Teems recently detailing how he and the rest of the team behind the project aimed to capture the terror of the original movie. Teems' latest film, Firestarter, hits Peacock and theaters on May 13th. "It's a different beast than Halloween because of the way it's revered in a different way," Teems detailed to ComicBook.com. "They both are massively successful and massively popular films, but there's something about The Exorcist that, for whatever reason, people look at it a little more like it's more of a 'film' as opposed to a 'movie,' or however you might want to say it. I feel more pressure in The Exorcist, but I also just, end of the day, we all vowed not to tell this story unless we could tell it in a way that we felt honored." He continued, "So we were breaking the story and trying to figure it all out well before there was any deal. Before we even tried to make a deal or to figure out the rights and all that, we wanted to be sure we could figure out a story. So that was our early COVID project, is every Friday morning during the beginning of COVID in early 2020 we would meet over Zoom, me and David and Danny [McBride], Jason Blum, and we would pitch ideas and we would bounce ideas around and I'd go off and write and David would go off and write and we'd come back together and pitch ideas and spent a couple of months doing that. And then we got this story we were excited about and presented it. So it wasn't until we were really sure … We didn't want to just do it to do it. We knew it had to be something we all believed in. And we did, we found it." comicbook.com/horror/news/the-exorcist-reboot-writer-reaction-interview-scott-teems-explained/There's no way of us knowing if it'll be any good at this point, but I hope they took it as seriously and reverentially as he's saying here.
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Post by politicidal on Jun 2, 2022 14:09:50 GMT
Ellen Burstyn wrapped up her scenes.
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Post by politicidal on Aug 2, 2022 23:28:39 GMT
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Post by mgmarshall on Aug 3, 2022 2:00:59 GMT
Jesus, let it die.
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Post by politicidal on Oct 12, 2022 20:19:05 GMT
While talking to Collider, Green explained how he has approached The Exorcist in a completely different way to Halloween, as they are two contrasting types of horror. He said: "They’re nothing alike. Halloween is a horror movie, it’s a slasher movie, it’s midnight madness, good time at the movies, eat some popcorn. The Exorcist is a very researched drama about f**ked-up things — spirituality, religion, mental health, family — and it’s…you can overlap those two in these very different subgenres of horror, but the approach technically, creatively, is very different." movieweb.com/david-gordon-green-explains-exorcist-movies-different-from-halloween-trilogy/ |
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Post by politicidal on Oct 13, 2022 16:47:55 GMT
From Variety:
“We start in a couple of weeks, and we’re ready to roll up our sleeves and dive into the next great franchise. We’ve got an amazing cast coming together and scripts we’re all excited about.”
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