On any given day, there are dozens upon dozens of feature film projects seeded in Hollywood backrooms, and 90 percent of them will never come to fruition. This, weirdly, is what we expected to happen to the David Gordon Green Exorcist movies, especially after Halloween Ends underperformed (comparatively), but you can’t keep a good man down. It turns out the Ellen Burstyn and Leslie Odom Jr.-led feature is coming out in October, and it’s gotten a title: The Exorcist: Believer. Universal dropped the first trailer for the rebootquel on Tuesday (it apparently was attached to prints of Oppenheimer this past weekend as well), and it looks… pretty much like what you’d expect from a Gordon Green Exorcist movie.
Peep it:
Here’s a nice and long synopsis:
“Exactly 50 years ago this fall, the most terrifying horror film in history landed on screens, shocking audiences around the world. Now, on Friday, October 13, a new chapter begins. From Blumhouse and director David Gordon Green, who shattered the status quo with their resurrection of the ‘Halloween’ franchise, comes ‘The Exorcist: Believer.’ Since the death of his pregnant wife in a Haitian earthquake 12 years ago, Victor Fielding (Tony winner and Oscar nominee Leslie Odom, Jr.; ‘One Night in Miami,’ ‘Hamilton’) has raised their daughter, Angela (Lidya Jewett, ‘Good Girls’) on his own. But when Angela and her friend Katherine (newcomer Olivia Marcum), disappear in the woods, only to return three days later with no memory of what happened to them, it unleashes a chain of events that will force Victor to confront the nadir of evil and, in his terror and desperation, seek out the only person alive who has witnessed anything like it before: Chris MacNeil.
For the first time since the 1973 film, Oscar winner Ellen Burstyn reprises her iconic role as Chris MacNeil, an actress who has been forever altered by what happened to her daughter Regan five decades before. The film also stars Emmy winner Ann Dowd (‘The Handmaid’s Tale,’ ‘Hereditary’) as Victor and Angela’s neighbor, and Grammy winner Jennifer Nettles (‘Harriet,’ ‘The Righteous Gemstones’) and two-time Tony winner Norbert Leo Butz (‘Fosse/Verdon,’ ‘Bloodline’) as the parents of Katherine, Angela’s friend.”
The Exorcist: Believer will possess your local multiplex on October 13. And you bet your ass they’re not putting this one on Peacock.