“[It’s] going to be like David’s Halloween sequel.”, Blum says. “I think it’s going to pleasantly surprise all the skeptics out there. We had a lot of skeptics about Halloween and David turned them around, and I think he’s going to turn it around with The Exorcist.”
Blum also maintains that he doesn’t find the prospect of creating a new sequel to what is widely considered the greatest horror movie of all time to be daunting.
“I love to do [these] kinds of movies because people are very emotional about it,” he says. “I think it’s a high bar and it’s a challenge to do the movie. Remember, most of the audience coming to this—95 percent of the audience who will, if we do our job right, come to see this movie—will not have seen the first Exorcist or even heard of it.”
Blum doesn’t say where he got that statistic from—although we suspect he has market research folks who do exactly that kind of heavy-lifting—but he does insist that number is “shocking, but true.”
He continues, “I want to make a movie that works for both [audiences]. I want to make a movie for people that know and love the first Exorcist and are furious that we’re doing this, but somehow drag themselves to the theater. I want them to come out happy. And I want to make a movie that people who’ve never heard of The Exorcist really enjoy. I think David did that with Halloween. I think he’ll do that with The Exorcist also.”
For now, all other information on the sequel, including plot and casting details, remains up in the air while Green completes the trilogy he began with Halloween (the next one, Halloween Kills, is due out Oct. 15, while the finale, Halloween Ends, arrives exactly a year later).
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