'The Exorcist' Revival Trilogy Gets Going With 'Believer' Trailer And Dating 'Deceiver'

David Gordon Green attempts to do what he did for 'Halloween' with another horror franchise

Can you feel that? This trailer is mine. Universal and Blumhouse have released the first trailer for The Exorcist: Believer, the first Exorcist film since the prequel The Exorcist: The Beginning in 2004 and its recut Dominion in 2005.

The film, which will be released on October 13 sees the return of Ellen Burstyn as Chris MacNeil, who had only previously appeared in the original film. Angela Fielding and her friend Katherine, played by Lidya Jewett and Olivia Marcum, are possessed during a disappearance in the woods and alleged kidnapping. The father of the former, played by Leslie Odom Jr., seeks out MacNeil for help, having been profiled in the 50 years since the she had saved her daughter Regan in the original film. The possessed girls are seen covered in bloody Satanic markings and devouring pages of the Bible, and etching Regan’s name into wood.

The official logline reads “Since the death of his pregnant wife in a Haitian earthquake 12 years ago, Victor Fielding (Leslie Odom, Jr.) has raised their daughter, Angela (Lidya Jewett) on his own. But when Angela and her friend Katherine (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.” Believer also stars Ann Dowd, Okwui Okpokwasili, Jennifer Nettles and Raphael Sbarge.

The Exorcist: Believer is the first of a trilogy directed by David Gordon Green, who is responsible for the recent Halloween trilogy with Jamie Lee Curtis returning as Laurie Strode, hoping lightning can strike twice. It is written by him and Peter Sattler from a story by Scott Teems, Danny McBride and Green. While the Exorcist franchise, which had Exorcist II: The Heretic in 1977 and The Exorcist III in 1990, did not partake in the remake-heavy era of the late 2000s and early 2010s, it returns in a distanced sequel era across genres but in horror also includes 2021’s Candyman and the resurgence of Scream. When the trilogy was made public in July 2021, there was some sort of Peacock-involved initial release across the whole trilogy, whether day and date or exclusive, but it now seems that it’s headed to be theatrical entirely. The second film has been subtitled Deceiver and dated for a theatrical release on April 18, 2025.

Source: Variety