Julius Avery, the director of 2018’s Overlord, is heading back into the horror genre with The Pope’s Exorcist, and Deadline brings us the latest casting news this afternoon.
For starters, Franco Nero (Django, John Wick: Chapter 2) has joined the cast as the titular pope, starring alongside Russell Crowe as real-life exorcist Father Gabriele Amorth.
Additionally, Laurel Marsden (Ms. Marvel), Cornell S. John (Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald), and Peter DeSouza-Feighoney have also joined the horror movie’s cast.
From Sony’s Screen Gems, The Pope’s Exorcist is based on real-life exorcist Father Gabriele Amorth, “the legendary Italian priest who performed over 100,000 exorcisms for the Vatican.”
Alex Essoe (Doctor Sleep) and Daniel Zovatto (It Follows) will also star.
Evan Spiliotopoulos wrote the current draft with revisions by Chuck MacLean, based on Michael Petroni-revised original drafts by Chester Hastings and R. Dean McCreary.
Ángel Gómez (Voices) had previously been attached to direct the movie for Screen Gems, who recently acquired the rights to Father Gabriele Amorth’s real-life exorcism tales.
The Exorcist director William Friedkin told Father Gabriele Amorth’s story in the recent documentary The Devil and Father Amorth, which you can find on various VOD outlets.
Father Gabriele Amorth passed away back in 2016 at the age of 91.
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