CINEMA NEWS – After the successful reboot of the Halloween series, producer Jason Blum and David Gordon Green, director of the new slasher trilogy, are re-invigorating the eternal classic The Exorcist living with hallucinations.

The goal is to give the fans of the 1973 cult film, who are still calling it blasphemy, a new impulse, and members of the younger generations to catch on to the story. The new story once again centers on a demon-possessed child whose father (Leslie Odom, Jr.) turns to the mother known from the original film for advice, who is again Ellen Burstyn (his performance earned him an Oscar nomination at the time). The former little girl in the classic play, Linda Blair, however, did not receive an invitation.

The creators of the new film follow the same procedure as in the case of Halloween: they ignore the sequels and clones of the classic play, but start the reboot with a clean slate. Producer Blum is unfailingly optimistic once again, since the Halloween reboot is also in the works: “Everyone thinks we’re going to fall on our faces, but we’re working with the same creators, David Gordon Green and Jim McBride,” Blum told CinePOP last year. “We’re remaking The Exorcist, it’s going to be fresh, new, different, and just as terrifying as the original.”

Incidentally, Linda Blair’s fate is interesting because, on the one hand, The The Exorcist destroyed her in a way, but in the end it was her redemption. After the film’s release, the press speculated that she may have had a nervous breakdown due to the role and the tension deliberately created by director William Friedkin. After the world-famous horror film, Blair played in its sequel, followed by smaller and larger TV and film roles, but she could not get rid of the image of the demon-possessed little girl. So the film that launched him on the field with a big bang ruined his career. The actress made a big difference because of this, she created an animal protection foundation, and she devoted the last two decades to this mission, and to the promotion of the vegan lifestyle, about which she also wrote a book. He doesn’t mind that he is no longer in the current Exorcist reboot, but he wishes the new venture a lot of success.

(The Exorcist – domestic premiere: October 12, 2023)

Source: UIP