Universal has revealed the first trailer for The Exorcist: Believer, bringing back Ellen Burstyn as Chris MacNeil. Plus they’ve also given a release date for Exorcist: Deceiver!
Today brings horror fans the first look at David Gordon Green’s The Exorcist sequel (hopefully bringing the same magic he did to the Halloween revival in 2018), along with the first bit of news on the SECOND film in this planned trilogy. First things first, however, let’s look at this trailer:
Since the death of his pregnant wife in a Haitian earthquake 12 years ago, Victor Fielding (Tony winner and Oscar® nominee Leslie Odom, Jr.; One Night in Miami, Hamilton) has raised their daughter, Angela (Lidya Jewett, Good Girls) on his own.
But when Angela and her friend Katherine (newcomer Olivia Marcum), disappear in the woods, only to return three days later with no memory of what happened to them, it unleashes a chain of events that will force Victor to confront the nadir of evil and, in his terror and desperation, seek out the only person alive who has witnessed anything like it before: Chris MacNeil.
For the first time since the 1973 film, Oscar® winner Ellen Burstyn reprises her iconic role as Chris MacNeil, an actress who has been forever altered by what happened to her daughter Regan five decades before.
The film also stars Emmy winner Ann Dowd (The Handmaid’s Tale, Hereditary) as Victor and Angela’s neighbor, and Grammy winner Jennifer Nettles (Harriet, The Righteous Gemstones) and two-time Tony winner Norbert Leo Butz (Fosse/Verdon, Bloodline) as the parents of Katherine, Angela’s friend.
If the Believer trailer has you hooked and eager for more, go ahead and mark your calendars down for The Exorcist: Deceiver, which will hit theaters on April 18, 2025 (Easter weekend).
The Exorcist: Believer will hit theaters on October 13, 2023.
