Despite the poor critical response from fans and critics for director David Gordon Green’s The Exorcist: Believer, Universal Pictures is still dedicated to following through with the other two movies, but that is going to come with some changes.
The Hollywood Reporter published a report stating that the studio is committed to finishing the new trilogy, but because of how The Exorcist: Believer turned out and how it was received, they will “almost certainly demand some degree of creative re-think for the next two films.”
The next film in the trilogy is titled The Exorcist: Deceiver, which is currently set to be released in 2025. David Gordon Green is expected to return to direct, but he recently cast a bit of doubt on that. When previously asked if he planned on directing the next two sequels, he said:
“I think hope is … My intention is just to start making things, and as those plans come together, if I find myself in that [The Exorcist: Deceiver] director’s chair, I’d be thrilled. But right now, I’m navigating it from a story perspective and looking at my realities of life as I pivot.”
I did not like The Exorcist: Believer at all, and I was actually kind of excited about it. But, while I’m curious about how the studio will change things, after that first movie, I’m not sure if things are actually going to get any better.
In the movie, “Since the death of his pregnant wife in a Haitian earthquake 12 years ago, Victor Fielding has raised their daughter, Angela on his own, but when Angela and her friend Katherine, 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.”
Did you watch The Exorcist: Believer? If so, what did you think?