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The Exorcist: Jamie Lee Curtis wants to voice the devil in David Gordon Green trilogy

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Jamie Lee Curtis is without doubt one of the horror style’s hottest heroines, however she is just not a fan of the style herself. Throughout a current interview with Entertainment Weekly, Curtis revealed that when she was a young person she was so frightened by a viewing of The Exorcist (watch it HERE) that her associates teased her about it – and from there, she had the thought that perhaps she ought to become involved with the Exorcist trilogy that her Halloween 2018 (watch that HERE) and Halloween Kills (now in theatres and on the Peacock streaming service) director David Gordon Inexperienced, who she’ll be working with once more on Halloween Ends, is planning to make after he wraps up his Halloween trilogy.

Curtis mentioned,

I’m courageous, however I’m afraid of scary issues. Once I was 15, my dad and mom (legendary actors Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis) screened The Exorcist and my associates teased me the subsequent day as a result of I used to be so freaked out. I detest being scared by scary films. I scare so simply. It’s the explanation that I’m so good at [being in them]. It’s a pure response for me. I’ve had this awakening. Why did I find yourself making my mark in a style that I detest? I might be a type of individuals who would say, you couldn’t pay me to go to a horror film. As a result of I hate it. [But] truly, you may pay me to be scared and you may pay me properly! Perhaps I ought to be the voice of the satan like Mercedes McCambridge. You see, if David offers me an element within the new Exorcist trilogy because the voice of the satan, then it’s a full-circle return for me, in a meta means. That might blow folks’s minds.”

McCambridge didn’t precisely voice the satan, little Linda Blair was possessed by a demon known as Pazuzu in The Exorcist, however Curtis undoubtedly wins factors for bringing her title up like that.

When requested if Curtis has talked to him about her Exorcist aspirations, Inexperienced replied,

Ooh, she has not! I’ll should get her to audition for that one. You realize, she did the crying child for the final Halloween film, so she’s a proficient voice actor as properly.”

We’ll have to attend and see if Curtis finally ends up having any involvement with Inexperienced’s Exorcist films. We do know that the primary entry in his trilogy is about to star Leslie Odom Jr. and Ellen Burstyn, who might be reprising the position of Chris MacNeil from the unique movie. Odom might be enjoying a personality who 

tracks down Chris MacNeil after his baby turns into possessed.

Common and Peacock paid an quantity someplace within the vary of $400 million to accumulate the rights to distribute this new Exorcist trilogy. Coming to us from Blumhouse Productions and Morgan Creek Leisure, the movies are being produced by Jason Blum, David Robinson, and James Robinson. Inexperienced, Danny McBride, and Couper Samuelson function government producers. Ryan Turek is overseeing the challenge for Blumhouse.

The unique announcement knowledgeable us that Green crafted the story for The Exorcist 2023 with Peter Sattler (Damaged Diamonds), then wrote the screenplay with Danny McBride (who has written all three of the brand new Halloweens with him) and their Halloween Kills co-writer Scott Teems.

Halloween Ends is scheduled to achieve theatres on October 14, 2022 and Inexperienced’s The Exorcist will arrive the next 12 months, on October 13, 2023.

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