David Gordon Green is directing a brand new sequel to The Exorcist for Universal, Blumhouse and Morgan Creek that will pave the way for a planned trilogy. The first film in the trilogy will be released theatrically on October 13, 2023, and filming recently kicked off. Unfortunately, Deadline reports that the production is taking an unexpected break for the holidays.
Deadline writes, “Sources cited an unspecified health issue involving Leslie Odom Jr., who stars alongside Ellen Burstyn, reprising her role as Chris MacNeil from the original 1973 movie.”
The site describes the shut down as “an early and not cost insignificant” situation. The report adds, “They hope to have [Odom Jr.] back along with the rest of the cast in January.”
The first plot details we were provided with last year tease, “Odom Jr. will play the father of a possessed child. Desperate for help, he tracks down Ms. Burstyn’s character.”
Ann Dowd (Hereditary) is also on board to star in next year’s sequel.
The Exorcist franchise hasn’t been on the big screen since the 2005 release of Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist, an alternate version of the previous year’s Exorcist: The Beginning. Those films came in the wake of 1977’s The Exorcist II: The Heretic and 1990’s The Exorcist III.
More recently, “The Exorcist” became a short-lived television series at Fox, which was surprisingly excellent and cleverly took place in the same world as the original classic.
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