Director David Gordon Green explains why he wanted to take on 'The Exorcist' franchise.
Ellen Burstyn returns as Chris MacNeil, a character she created 50 years ago, for"The Exorcist: Believer."” turns 50 this year but instead of letting this classic rest on its laurels, Universal launches a new horror trilogy with"But you could say the franchise was already tarnished or maybe just cursed. The original film was both a box office hit and critical success, even winning a couple of Oscars.
David Gordon Green, who helmed the recent “Halloween” trilogy and now directs “Believer,” seems a nice enough guy. I sort of felt bad signing up to do a press day with him when I really just wanted to ask,"What the heck were you thinking when you made those 'Halloween' films?" Not sure exactly where that intimate personal drama lurks in “Believer.” We get a little intimacy in the horror that a parent might feel when a child goes missing, and in the backstory of a neighbor who wanted to be a nun. But not enough to have a real impact.
Green said that exorcism/possession stories are “a great way to illustrate negativity that we feel in our daily lives. And we can point to something specific — a demon — and we can take our fears and our anxieties, and we can try to defeat that with some ritual, some ceremony. It's a good way to tell a story of things that I think in the real everyday world, we see every day, from mental illness and addiction and abuse.
MacNeil’s story is actually the one I wanted to see rather than Victor’s attempts to be the perfect dad. Maybe the 90-year-old actress was not up to taking on a lead role, but the script could have put her to better use. We get tidbits of info about how she wrote a book about her ordeal and explored all kinds of ideas about possession and exorcism in various cultures and pushed her daughter Regan into hiding.
The original “The Exorcist,” which was based on a book by the Catholic William Peter Blatty, focused all attention on a pair of priests as the ones being able to exorcise the demon. The priests might have been flawed but there was no doubt they were good men trying to save an innocent soul, and their struggle to achieve that engaged us, even if we might be atheists.
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