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Ellen Burstyn to reprise famed ‘Exorcist’ role in new film trilogy

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Peacock. “Halloween” director David Gordon Green is at the helm of the revived supernatural, cross-wielding priest film series.

The first film featured Burstyn as the mother of the possessed Regan MacNeil, played by then-14-year-old Linda Blair, who was nominated for an Academy Award for her portrayal of the bewitched teen.

The Post has reached out to Blair, 62, for comment.According to Universal, the new franchise is described as a “continuation,” and not a remake.

Burstyn did not participate in the previous and very widely panned “Exorcist” sequels. Those subsequent films included the 1977’s “Exorcist II: The Heretic,” “The Exorcist III” (1990), “Exorcist: The Beginning” (2004) and “Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist” (2005).“The Exorcist”.

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