The Exorcist: Believer
David Gordon Green's 2023 legacy sequel, with Ellen Burstyn back as Chris MacNeil.
The Exorcist: Believer is a 2023 American supernatural horror film directed by David Gordon Green, who wrote it with Peter Sattler. A legacy sequel to the 1973 film and the sixth film in the franchise, it stars Leslie Odom Jr., Lidya Jewett, Olivia O'Neill, Jennifer Nettles, Norbert Leo Butz and Ann Dowd, with Ellen Burstyn and Linda Blair returning from the original.
Quick Facts
- Director
- David Gordon Green
- Screenplay
- Peter Sattler; David Gordon Green
- Story
- Scott Teems
- Danny McBride
- David Gordon Green
- Based on
- Characters, William Peter Blatty
- Producer
- Jason Blum
- David C. Robinson
- James G. Robinson
- Starring
- Leslie Odom Jr.
- Lidya Jewett
- Olivia O’Neill
- Jennifer Nettles
- Norbert Leo Butz
- Ann Dowd
- Ellen Burstyn
- Cinematography
- Michael Simmonds
- Editing
- Tim Alverson
Facts from the source article.
Background
Photographer Victor Fielding (Odom), who lost his pregnant wife in an earthquake in Haiti, is raising their daughter Angela alone in Georgia. Angela and her friend Katherine vanish into the woods to try to contact Angela's mother, come back three days later, and soon show signs of possession. Victor seeks out Chris MacNeil, who has written a memoir about her own daughter and studied exorcism across many cultures; Katherine blinds her with a cross. A group of believers from different faiths tries a joint exorcism, during which Father Maddox, reading from the Roman Ritual, is killed. Universal and Peacock paid $400 million for the rights in 2021 to launch a new trilogy; the film, made for $30 million and released on October 6, 2023, grossed $137 million but was poorly reviewed, and the trilogy was dropped.
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