‘The Exorcist: Believer’ director explains why his planned trilogy got cancelled
nme.comThe Exorcist: Believer director David Gordon Green has revealed why his planned trilogy for the franchise was cancelled.In a new interview with IndieWire, the filmmaker cited a lack of creative freedom and budgetary constraints as the main reason why a second and third film didn’t go ahead, despite the former being written and latter being mapped out.“It’s complicated.
It’s long and complicated,” he said. “We had our next one written and had it mapped out for the third one. Again, it was ambitious, complicated.
We were going to Europe for some pretty extraordinary backdrops. It was one of those things where all of the creative parties got together.“What I’m pitching, in terms of my professional ambition is, I need the creative freedom and give me the budgetary constraints so I can keep control of that.
That’s something we learned pretty quickly, [with] expectations that are limitless and really daunting.”The Halloween Ends filmmaker continued: “So, for me to keep that creative freedom and be able to make the choices I wanted to make… As you see with the Halloween movies, the choices I make aren’t always the most popular ones.
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