By The sequel to last year’s critical flop “The Exorcist: Believer” is still progressing at Universal Pictures and Blumhouse.
Made for a budget of $30 million, ‘Believer’ pulled in $137 million at the global box office in spite of scathing reviews.
As Universal acquired distribution rights to the franchise for $400 million in June 2021, the intent is to proceed with a new trilogy of “The Exorcist” films.
That said, the film’s planned release date of April 2025 has been pulled and the film lost director David Gordon Green last month as he is off working on another project.
Speaking with The Direct to promote “Imaginary,” producer Jason Blum says the plan is still to “definitely” make another Exorcist movie:
“We are definitely going to make another Exorcist movie, but I wanted more time to figure out what it would be. I have no idea what it’s going to be yet.”
‘Believer’ was set 50 years after the events of the first and serves as a direct sequel to the William Friedkin classic. Ellen Burstyn reprised her role as Chris MacNeil, who now must help two young girls possessed by a demonic force.
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