The Universal Pictures and Blumhouse 'requel' to William Friedkin's The Exorcist opens October 6.
io9 sat down with Green to discuss the film he and collaborator Danny McBride co-created, with the filmmaker taking up the reins for a planned three-pictureBeliever
, we meet Victor Fielding , a widower raising his teen daughter Angela . After she gets lost in the woods with her friend Katherine , Victor and Katherine’s parents endure the unimaginable when their children return possessed by a familiar demonic force. Together they call upon religious figures and bring in’s Chris MacNeil for soul-saving help.Sabina Graves, io9: Congratulations on the film. To start, I want to take it back. Let’s talk about your first experience of the originalmovie.
at] the public library, so I sat in a cubicle with headphones on and would watch it. I probably watched it in 20 or 30 minute chunks. I know I didn’t watch it all at once, so I watched it in pieces over a number of days.I was a student at a Jesuit school for that year, and so it kind of all fed into the questions I was asking as a young, curious movie lover and skeptic about the world and how it operates and what’s out there.
io9: What were the conversations like with story co-creater Danny McBride when you were spitballing this concept? And going back to your experience as a 14-year-old—did you bring those questions back up in this sort of like arena of how you’re going to tackleI remember sitting in my office with Danny and—so, it’s funny because upstairs we’ve got a writer’s room for.
io9: Yes, and I love the newcomers. Leslie Odom Jr. is incredible. And his relationship with Angela and even the other parents with Katherine—you really feel for these families as their children are going through this harrowing experience. What was it like to create this ensemble and family energy, which is such a core to the thematics of the film, but then also tackle what makesterrifying, when these demons take complete control over these child characters?Working with Leslie Odom, Jr.
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