A brand new featurette promotes the October launch of The Exorcist: Believer with a dialogue of spirituality and the principle characters
The Common Footage advertising machine is working at full energy to verify everybody’s conscious that there’s a brand new Exorcist film reaching theatres subsequent month – which is smart, since Common and Peacock forked over an quantity someplace within the vary of $400 million to amass the rights to distribute a brand new trilogy of Exorcist sequels which might be coming from director David Gordon Inexperienced and Blumhouse Productions (the identical inventive crew that was behind the current trilogy of Halloween sequels). The Exorcist: Believer is about to be launched on October 6th, and the most recent piece of promotion is a featurette that discusses spirituality and the daddy and daughter characters which might be on the middle of the movie’s story. You may test it out within the embed above.
Inexperienced’s Halloween sequel trilogy consisted of Halloween (2018), Halloween Kills, and Halloween Ends. He crafted the story for The Exorcist: Believer with Danny McBride (who wrote all three of the brand new Halloweens with him) and their Halloween Kills co-writer Scott Teems, then wrote the screenplay with Peter Sattler (Damaged Diamonds). Right here’s the synopsis: For the reason that loss of life of his pregnant spouse in a Haitian earthquake 12 years in the past, Victor Fielding has raised their daughter on his personal. However when Angela and her good friend Katherine, disappear within the woods, solely to return three days later with no reminiscence of what occurred to them, it unleashes a series of occasions that can drive Victor to confront the nadir of evil and, in his terror and desperation, search out the one individual alive who has witnessed something prefer it earlier than: Chris MacNeil.
Ellen Burstyn reprises the position of Chris MacNeil, the character she performed within the 1973 basic The Exorcist, “an actress who has been perpetually altered by what occurred to her daughter Regan 5 a long time earlier than.” She is joined within the solid by Leslie Odom Jr. (Hamilton) as Victor, Lidya Jewett (Nightbooks) as Angela, and newcomer Olivia O’Neill as Angela’s good friend Katherine. Ann Dowd (The Handmaid’s Story) performs Victor and Angela’s neighbor, and Jennifer Nettles (The Righteous Gems) and Norbert Leo Butz (Fosse/Verdon) play Katherine’s dad and mom. Unique The Exorcist star Linda Blair is in there as nicely, reprising the position of Chris MacNeil’s daughter Regan.
Okwui Okpokwasili (Grasp) can be within the solid as Physician Beehibe, and Raphael Sbarge (Carnosaur) performs a pastor.
The Exorcist: Believer is being produced by Jason Blum, David Robinson, and James Robinson. Inexperienced, Danny McBride, Stephanie Allain, and Couper Samuelson function govt producers. Ryan Turek is overseeing the challenge for Blumhouse.
Common has already introduced a launch date for the second entry on this trilogy. The Exorcist: Deceiver might be reaching theatres on April 18, 2025.
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