'The Exorcist: Believer' director David Gordon Green and producer Jason Blum spoke about how they reinvented the story for a sequel 50 years in the making.
'The Exorcist: Believer' is here to scare a new generation of horror fans. The film's director, David Gordon Green, and producer, Jason Blum, explained how excited they are to continue the story of the 1973 horror classic. 'The original is obviously a monumental classic film, from 50 years ago, and it holds up exactly how it did then today,' Green explained. 'We've taken a lot of influence from that movie.
Aside from Burstyn, Dowd and Odom Jr., the movie also stars Jennifer Nettles, Raphael Sbarge, Olivia O'Neill and Lidya Jewett. When the original movie was released, audiences were reportedly walking out of theaters because it was too scary, with some even fainting and getting sick over what was on the screen. Aside from the original film, Green and Blum took inspiration from the horror movies that first sparked their interest in the genre.
The Exorcist: Believer' was originally scheduled to release Oct. 13, which happens to be Friday the 13th, the optimal date to release a horror movie. Plans changed however when Taylor Swift announced she would be releasing the Eras Tour concert movie the same day. 'Obviously, we moved off that , and we bowed our head to Taylor Swift,' Blum told Entertainment Weekly in September. 'It was too risky to see if 'Exorswift' was going to take or not.
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