The Exorcist: David Gordon Green and the cult horror sagas
In five years, director and screenwriter David Gordon Green has tackled two of the greatest horror sagas of all time: Halloween AND The exorcist. In both cases the procedure was the same: offer a direct sequel to the original filmsdeliberately ignoring the other works that the sagas have known.
In 2018, the recipe worked Halloween. David Gordon Green offered a powerful and brutal first film, respecting the myth of Michael Myers and his bloody reunion with Laurie Strode, 40 years after their first face to faceAnd. TO box office furthermore, the recipe had worked perfectly with 255 million dollars in revenues, for a budget estimated at just 10 million. This great success in theaters allowed Universal to continue with two sequels: Halloween kills AND Halloween endspublished in 2021 and 2022.
Based on this success, Universal wanted to reproduce the approach with another cult saga: The Exorcist. Last October, David Gordon Green presented the first part of what would launch a new trilogy. But this time the sauce did not take e The Exorcist: Devotion it was a bloody failure. At the box office, the film grossed only $136 million, for a budget three times that of the filmHalloween, and above all for rights purchased for over 400 million. He has also suffered disastrous criticism, both professional and public.
David Gordon Green throws in the towel
As with the first part of the Halloween trilogy, The Exorcist: Devotion is the direct sequel to William Friedkin’s masterpiece. Set 50 years after the events of the first film, we find Chris MacNeil (Ellen Burstyn) as he must help a man whose daughter seems possessed, as Regan had been fifty years earlier.
While the sequel was slated for 2025, we learn via The Hollywood journalist that David Gordon Green left the project and that the second film no longer has a release date. Baptized The Exorcist: The Deceiver in the United States the feature film was supposed to be released on April 18, 2025. Universal instead granted this date for the release of Michaelthe biographical film dedicated to the king of pop, directed by Antoine Fuqua.
Source: Cine Serie
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