The Exorcist: Deceiver has just been met with some unfortunate news.Per Variety, it has been revealed that director David Gordon Green has exited the production of The Exorcist: Deceiver. Green previously co-wrote and directed The Exorcist: Believer, 2023’s legacy sequel to the original movie released in 1973. With the director’s chair now empty, Universal has also pulled Deceiver from its release schedule, and the sequel is no longer set to hit theaters on April 18, 2025. Antoine Fuqua’s Michael Jackson biopic has been shifted into that release date instead while the search begins for a new director to take the reins with Deceiver.It’s not clear if Green exited The Exorcist: Deceiver due to scheduling conflicts with other projects, or if Universal may be wanting to go in another direction with the next film of the franchise. In 2021, perhaps due to the financial success of Green’s Halloween films, the studio and Peacock had acquired the distribution rights for a new trilogy of Exorcist movies for a whopping $400 million. The Exorcist: Believer, which had taken an additional $30 million for its budget, grossed around $137 million at the box office. This was a far cry from what Universal was hoping for, given the big money spent to acquire the rights.
The Exorcist: Deceiver has just been met with some unfortunate news.
Per Variety, it has been revealed that director David Gordon Green has exited the production of The Exorcist: Deceiver. Green previously co-wrote and directed The Exorcist: Believer, 2023’s legacy sequel to the original movie released in 1973. With the director’s chair now empty, Universal has also pulled Deceiver from its release schedule, and the sequel is no longer set to hit theaters on April 18, 2025. Antoine Fuqua’s Michael Jackson biopic has been shifted into that release date instead while the search begins for a new director to take the reins with Deceiver.
It’s not clear if Green exited The Exorcist: Deceiver due to scheduling conflicts with other projects, or if Universal may be wanting to go in another direction with the next film of the franchise. In 2021, perhaps due to the financial success of Green’s Halloween films, the studio and Peacock had acquired the distribution rights for a new trilogy of Exorcist movies for a whopping $400 million. The Exorcist: Believer, which had taken an additional $30 million for its budget, grossed around $137 million at the box office. This was a far cry from what Universal was hoping for, given the big money spent to acquire the rights.
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