Well, it’s happening… they’re remaining the greatest horror movie ever made. Maybe.
And, given the years we’ve had recently, this feels like par for the course.
Jason Blum, he of Blumhouse fame, the company that makes The Purge, Happy Death Day etc, has confirmed that William Friedkin’s The Exorcist, widely respected as the scariest movie ever made during its fifty-year history.
Blum has been rumoured looking at doing this for a while, with Halloween’s David Gordon directing… this part, at least hasn’t been confirmed, although Blum does reference him when revealing the news.
“[It’s] going to be like David’s Halloween sequel,” Blum says, “I think it’s going to pleasantly surprise all the skeptics out there. We had a lot of skeptics about Halloween and David turned them around, and I think he’s going to turn it around with The Exorcist.”
What does this mean? Well, Blum leaves the door open to that, but we know that the new Halloween movies ignore all the previosu sequels to John Caprpernter’s stone-cold classic and, with The Exorcist having sequels too, it seems that maybe that’s the plan here too… could we be seeing a sequel to director Francis Ford Coppola’s original Exorcist?
Now, there’s no denying that the Halloween reboot/reimagining/sequel has pleased a lot of fans both old and new and Blum seems to think they can do it again.
“I want to make a movie that works for both [audiences],” says Blum.
“I want to make a movie for people that know and love the first Exorcist and are furious that we’re doing this, but somehow drag themselves to the theater. I want them to come out happy. And I want to make a movie that people who’ve never heard of The Exorcist really enjoy. I think David [Gordon]did that with Halloween. I think he’ll do that with The Exorcist also.”
Now, before we all explode, let’s recall that the short-lived Exorcist series was also set in the same universe as the original movie and was, well, brilliant, so the idea isn’t completely ludacris… but it will be one hell of a feat to pull off.
So, what say you all? Are you angry or prepared to give it a shot? Let me know what you think, gang…
Source: Den of Geek
Marc
Marc is a self-confessed nerd. Ever since seeing Star Wars for the first time around 1979 he’s been an unapologetic fan of the Wars and still believes, with Clone Wars and now Underworld, we are yet to see the best Star Wars. He’s a dad of two who now doesn’t have the time (or money) to collect the amount of toys, comics, movies and books he once did, much to the relief of his long-suffering wife. In the real world he’s a graphic designer. He started Following the Nerd because he was tired of searching a million sites every day for all the best news that he loves and decided to create one place where you can go to get the whole lot. Secretly he longs to be sitting in the cockpit of his YT-1300 Corellian Transport ship with his co-pilot Chewie, roaming the universe, waiting for his next big adventure, but feels just at home watching cartoons with his kids….
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