“I know expectations are high.
No ones more intimidated than I am,” he said in a new interview.
But first, he’s taking a detour.
The two possessed children at the heart of ‘The Exorcist: Believer’.Universal Pictures
Universal Pictures announced Flanagan as the next director to take the reins ofThe Exorcist.
“We arent making this easy on ourselves,” Flanagan toldTHR.
I chasedThe Exorcistvery aggressively because I was convinced I had something that I could add.
Mike Flanagan.Gary Gershoff/WireImage
I really just saw an opportunity to make the scariest movie Ive ever made.
I know expectations are high.
No ones more intimidated than I am."
Original franchise starEllen Burstynreturned as Chris MacNeil to face this malevolence.
“Thats a long answer.
Its long and complicated,” Green said of the project roadmap he had intended for the trilogy.
“We had our next one written and had it mapped out for the third one.
Again, it was ambitious, complicated.
We were going to Europe for some pretty extraordinary backdrops.
It was one of those things where all of the creative parties got together.”
The sequels, he said, would’ve followedAnn Dowd’s character, Ann, Victor’s nurse neighbor.
I dont think they were on the journey I was excited about taking."
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