With the film already appearing as a sequel to the unique, producer Ryan Turek reveals how The Exorcist: Believer is retconning earlier installments. The upcoming film will decide up 50 years after the horror style basic, seeing two households desperately in search of a method to save their daughters from the malevolent determine possessing them, turning to Ellen Burstyn’s Chris MacNeil for assist. Co-written and directed by the latest Halloween trilogy helmer David Gordon Inexperienced, the star-studded solid for The Exorcist: Believer additionally contains Leslie Odom Jr., Ann Dowd, Jennifer Nettles, Lidya Jewett, Olivia Marcum and Norbert Leo Butz.
Whereas talking with Inverse for the upcoming sequel, Turek mentioned how The Exorcist: Believer connects to the bigger horror film franchise. Although acknowledging that Inexperienced has been “playful” about its canon ties, the producer did seemingly affirm that the film will retcon prior installments, with the crew all having an settlement that “this can be a direct sequel to William Friedkin’s authentic“. See what Turek defined under:
This isn’t the primary time Inexperienced’s love for The Exorcist II has been acknowledged by a member of Believer‘s crew, with the co-writer/director sharing his appreciation for the 1977 sequel upon confirming the script for the brand new film was completed. Curiously, with that announcement in mid-2021, Inexperienced additionally indicated that the entire earlier installments had been a part of “the suitable mythology” he labored in for growing the legacy sequel, seemingly assuring that it wouldn’t observe the very same path as his Halloween trilogy of retconning all the pieces that got here earlier than.
Even when Inexperienced does discover a method to make most prior installments work, the upcoming film has already retconned out The Exorcist TV present that ran for 2 seasons on Fox. Season 1 acted as a shock sequel to the primary two motion pictures, with Geena Davis’ Angela Rance revealed to be an grownup Regan MacNeil whose household was being tormented but once more by Pazuzu. Along with recasting Linda Blair with Davis, the present recast Burstyn with Burn Discover alum Sharon Gless as her mom Chris, who had turn out to be estranged from her daughter when she went into hiding, returning when her possessed granddaughter went lacking.
After seemingly saving her granddaughter, Gless’ Chris would meet her finish when Regan turned re-possessed, breaking her mom’s neck. With Burstyn again as Chris for The Exorcist: Believer, it confirms that at the least the TV present is being retconned out of existence for Inexperienced’s timeline, thus making Turek’s indication of those modifications doubtless resulting in the critically panned The Heretic and The Exorcist III being ignored or retconned as effectively. Given 2018’s Halloween was met with largely constructive opinions from longtime franchise followers for its retcons of the poorly acquired sequels, this can be met with enthusiasm, and will assist preserve the canon cleaner for Inexperienced’s deliberate trilogy.
Supply: Inverse