How can The Exorcist franchise get back on the right track? Scrap the trilogy.
Scrap the trilogy idea. Believer (co-scripted by Green and Peter Sattler, from a story by Green, Scott Teems, and Danny McBride) was such a dud that even the built-in power of The Exorcist name makes Deceiver an iffy proposition, no matter who’s brought in to direct, and no matter how many times “Tubular Bells” does dramatic heavy lifting via the soundtrack. In the case of the Halloween trilogy, that 2018 first film was great—remember how excited we all were?—with sharply diminishing returns in parts two and three. Believer was so many rungs below 2018’s Halloween to start with, why bother following the same pattern and potentially making things even worse?
