Universal and Peacock Spend a Whopping $400M For New ‘Exorcist’ Trilogy; Ellen Burstyn to Reprise Her Role!
Major breaking news will have your head spinning.
Universal Pictures has teamed up with Peacock to close a $400 million-plus “megadeal” to buy a new Exorcist trilogy, reports The New York Times.
“Donna Langley, the film studio’s chairwoman, teamed with Peacock, NBCUniversal’s fledgling streaming service, to make the purchase, which is expected to be announced this week, according to three people briefed on the matter. These people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the still-private deal, said the price was in the vicinity of the $465 million that Netflix paid in March for two sequels to the 2019 whodunit Knives Out.
Leslie Odom Jr. (Hamilton, Knives Out 2) will star in a new Exorcist trilogy, the first of which is confirmed to be directed by David Gordon Green.
“I’m telling you that ‘thing’ upstairs isn’t my daughter.”
In more surprising news, Oscar-winner Ellen Burstyn will reprise her role as Chris MacNeil from the 1973 classic, mother to the possessed and tortured Regan MacNeil (played by Linda Blair).
As for story details, “Odom Jr. will play the father of a possessed child. Desperate for help, he tracks down Ms. Burstyn’s character.”
The casting confirms this new Exorcist trilogy won’t be a remake but a successor, similar to what Green did with John Carpenter’s Halloween. Green went on record about the film just last week.
Scott Teems (Halloween Kills, The Quarry), Danny McBride (Halloween Kills, Halloween) and David Gordon Green teamed up for the story being penned by Peter Sattler (Broken Diamonds) and David Gordon Green, Bloody Disgusting learned.
Blumhouse is producing with Morgan Creek Entertainment.
The first film in the trilogy will be released theatrically on October 13, 2023, Bloody Disgusting also discovered.
Rob Zombie’s The Munsters is also rumored to be a Universal/Peacock co-production.
The Exorcist franchise hasn’t been on the big screen since the 2005 release of Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist, an alternate version of the previous year’s Exorcist: The Beginning. Those films came in the wake of 1977’s The Exorcist II: The Heretic and 1990’s The Exorcist III.
More recently, “The Exorcist” became a short-lived television series at Fox, which was surprisingly excellent and cleverly took place in the same world as the original classic.
Fuente: https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/367 ... t-trilogy/
Interesantes los nombres asociados. Pero parece que no veremos nada hasta el 2023.
No recordaba la existencia de Dominion. No la vi, ni tampoco la de 2004. Creo que la única buena secuela que tuvo The Exorcist fue la 3 de 1990, porque la 2 me pareció infumable honestamente.