After a Halloween reboot trilogy that delivered diminishing returns, and the whole misfire that was The Exorcist: Believer, horror followers uttered a collective sigh of aid when director David Gordon Inexperienced introduced he wouldn’t be making any additional movies in that proposed reboot trilogy. However inevitably, there’s nonetheless some curiosity wafting round about what Inexperienced’s second movie—the title was to have been The Exorcist: Deceiver—would have explored, and he lately shared some particulars about that.

Talking to IndieWire about his newest movie, Nutcrackers (which is not a horror story), Inexperienced—who mentioned he’s “not afraid of sturdy emotions” within the context of individuals not having fun with sure amongst his horror franchise entries—shared a small tidbit about Deceiver‘s plot. “It was going to observe Ann Dowd’s character,” he mentioned.

In Believer, Dowd performs a nurse who turns into concerned within the film’s twin possession case, each in an expert capability and since she’s neighbors with Leslie Odom’s character, whose daughter by accident awakens a demon. Dowd’s character, additionally named “Ann,” has a conflicted previous involving her time as a former nun in coaching—and proves an essential ally within the struggle to avoid wasting the women’ souls.

Inexperienced additional elaborated on his scrapped follow-up movies, saying of the following two entries, “We had our subsequent one written and had it mapped out for the third one … it was formidable, difficult. We have been going to Europe for some fairly extraordinary backdrops.”

So it feels like Deceiver wouldn’t have adopted up on Believer‘s reunion between the gratuitously blinded Chris MacNeil (Ellen Burstyn) and her estranged daughter Regan (Linda Blair), whose personal possession propelled William Friedkin’s 1973 horror basic. Centering Dowd would have been a promising transfer; she’s a formidable presence every time she’s solid, with standout turns in Hereditary, Compliance, The Leftovers, and The Handmaid’s Story, to call a couple of movie and TV credit. And it felt like we didn’t get to know Ann practically effectively sufficient in Believer.

However, in the long run, Inexperienced isn’t making that movie in any respect; Common and Blumhouse, below stress to make good on that estimated $400 million required to snag the rights to The Exorcist, have turned to Mike Flanagan (The Fall of the Home of Usher, The Haunting of Hill Home, Physician Sleep) to revitalize Pazuzu and firm as an alternative.

Flanagan, whose subsequent launch is Stephen King adaptation The Lifetime of Chuck, has already mentioned his movie received’t be a sequel to Believer, as an alternative teasing it as “the prospect to attempt one thing recent, daring, and terrifying inside [The Exorcist] universe.” Past that, we don’t know a lot, however there’s loads of time for hypothesis: it’s not slated to reach till 2026.

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