David Gordon Green has confessed to working on a new trilogy on The Exorcist after his trilogy Halloween and ensures that the treatment will be very different.
David Gordon Green was best known before for his comedies with the small band of James Franco and Seth Rogen. His most telling feat within this team was being at the helm of Delirium Express released in 2008. However, the gentleman discovered a talent for well-made slasher after banking on the legacyquel, a true antithetical mirror of John Carpenter’s 1978 classic, with its Halloween who was freaking out in 2018.
After the second part of his trilogy with Michael Myers and the B series Halloween Killsthe filmmaker is therefore preparing to reveal to the world the end of this trilogy with Halloween Ends from October 12, 2022 in France. While interviewed by Colliderhe was able to return to his future work after the trilogy Halloween… including another trilogy (yet again), that of The Exorcist.
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This trilogy will follow on from William Friedkin’s classic and something quite different is to be expected from Laurie and Michael’s return with the latest Halloweens. In any case, this is what the filmmaker detailed, telling how the approaches of the two horror trilogies have little to do with it:
“They have nothing to do. Halloween is a horror movie, it’s a slasher, it’s midnight madness where you have a good time at the movies and eat popcorn. L ‘Exorcist is a very well-researched drama about mind-blowing facts – spirituality, religion, mental health, family – and it’s…you can bring these two works together in very different subgenres of horror, but the approach technical, creative, is very different.”
What we understand between these lines is that David Gordon Green wanted to deviate from the popcorn slasher trilogy he did before. The director has made it clear that the tone will be diametrically opposed to his last trilogy. He would therefore intend to deliver a triptych that would be more of a horror thrillersomething more thoughtful and profound than the regressive pleasure that his Halloween. No bisserie on the program then. Here, it will a priori be more a question of a thematic extension of The Exorcist, namely, an in-depth investigation, a behavioral study of a possessed subject.
“Back at it again…”
Despite everything, we may be playing on words but with a certain eye, treatment seems similar to the one he operated previously. There will be three feature films (again) to tell his story. Granted, it won’t be the same horror subgenre nonetheless. potentially that the structure adopted for its sequels will be the same : a legacyquel, a transition suite and the denouement.
Of course, this interpretation is to be taken lightly. We can naturally understand how the two projects of the craftsman are to be compared, to be brought together as much as to be differentiated. However, it is hoped that it will also be inspired on The Exorcist only on his Halloween. What we can almost say, on the other hand, is that the aesthetic and technical outfit of the whole will be required if he hasn’t lost his touch in the meantime.
We can only hope that the gentleman will not face a wall on the set and that he will manage as well as a modest and honest successor to William Friedkin as he was for John Carpenter. To get to the bottom of it, go to French cinemas on October 11, 2023.