Exclusive: David Gordon Green on directing The Exorcist: Believer & the return of Ellen Burstyn as Chris MacNeil
Hitting theaters on Oct. 6 from Universal Pictures is The Exorcist: Believer, directed by David Gordon Green and starring Leslie Odom, Jr., Lidya Jewett, Olivia O’Neill, Ann Dowd, Jennifer Nettles, Norbert Leo Butz, as well as the Oscar-winning actress Ellen Burstyn reprising her role as Chris MacNeil.
Since the death of his pregnant wife in a Haitian earthquake 12 years ago, Victor Fielding (Tony winner and Oscar nominee Leslie Odom, Jr.) has raised their daughter, Angela (Lidya Jewett) on his own. But when Angela and her friend Katherine (newcomer Olivia Marcum), disappear in the woods, only to return three days later with no memory of what happened to them, it unleashes a chain of events that will force Victor to confront the nadir of evil and, in his terror and desperation, seek out the only person alive who has witnessed anything like it before: Chris MacNeil. For the first time since the 1973 film, Oscar winner Ellen Burstyn reprises her iconic role as Chris MacNeil, an actress who has been forever altered by what happened to her daughter Regan five decades before.
The screenplay is written by Peter Sattler and David Gordon Green; from a story by Scott Teems, Danny McBride, and David Gordon Green; based on characters created by William Peter Blatty. Produced by Jason Blum, David Robinson, and James G. Robinson.
Gordon Green is known for directing films such as George Washington, All the Real Girls, Snow Angels, Pineapple Express, Your Highness, The Sitter, Prince Avalanche, Joe, Manglehorn, Our Brand Is Crisis, Stronger, and Halloween, Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends.
Blackfilmandtv.com’s Wilson Morales spoke with Gordon Green on directing The Exorcist: Believer & the return of Ellen Burstyn as Chris MacNeil.