To make 'The Exorcist: Believer,' filmmaker David Gordon Green, recently of three 'Halloween' movies, drew on religious curiosity and drives through the South.
Filmmaker David Gordon Green, first famous for indies like 2000’s “George Washington” and 2003’s “All the Real Girls” and now something of a horror-reboot expert, came of age in the Presbyterian Church before attending a Jesuit high school in Dallas.
Green’s latest project, “The Exorcist: Believer” , is another expression of that youthful impulse. It’s bound to draw in the curious who, casting back on their own childhoods, remember Friedkin’s classic as a sleepover rite of passage. Starringas a widowed parent whose daughter unwittingly welcomes in a malevolent entity, the new movie echoes back to the original, while telling its own distinct tale.
“When you’re doing a continuation of an iconic movie, you need something close enough to the original movie that it makes sense to use the title, but not too close that it feels like you’re ripping it off,” Blum said. “And I think what compelled me most about David’s story is it checked both of those boxes.”
“In the opening of the film, we got a real Haitian priestess to do a blessing and it resonated with everyone,” said Green about an early scene. “It shook us. It was a beautiful, emotional, physical, vibrant, musical ceremony and it was one take, 12 minutes long. We edited it, but it’s undoubtedly profound. I didn’t know at the time the words she was saying, the song she was singing, what exactly was happening, but you feel that charisma, that magic in the air.
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