William Friedkin’s The Exorcist is universally considered the scariest movie ever made. The film itself produced a handful of sequels to go along with the surprisingly excellent television series from Fox, yet in nearly 50 years, no possession film has ever come close to touching it.
A reboot has been threatened for several years now with a report from last December claiming Blumhouse will be producing alongside Morgan Creek with Halloween‘s David Gordon Green in talks to direct.
While Green has yet to be confirmed as the next director to tackle The Exorcist, Jason Blum did confirm to Den of Geek that Blumhouse will, in fact, be producing.
The interview takes an interesting turn, with Blum teasing a new direction for the next Exorcist, likening it to what they’ve done with John Carpenter’s Halloween.
“[It’s] going to be like David’s Halloween sequel,” Blum tells the site. “I think it’s going to pleasantly surprise all the skeptics out there. We had a lot of skeptics about Halloween and David turned them around, and I think he’s going to turn it around with The Exorcist.”
This is in no way confirmation of any story direction, but it could be read as Blum teasing a new film that would retcon all of the Exorcist sequels and kickstart a new beginning birthed from the climax of the 1973 masterpiece. No matter, his goal is to appease both new and old audiences, which is a daunting task.
“I want to make a movie that works for both [audiences],” says Blum. “I want to make a movie for people that know and love the first Exorcist and are furious that we’re doing this, but somehow drag themselves to the theater. I want them to come out happy. And I want to make a movie that people who’ve never heard of The Exorcist really enjoy. I think David did that with Halloween. I think he’ll do that with The Exorcist also.”
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.
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