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Get a behind-the-scenes look at The Exorcist: Believer in this featurette for the upcoming horror movie. The Exorcist: Believer stars Leslie Odom, Jr., Lidya Jewett, Olivia O’Neill, and Ellen Burstyn.

Since the death of his pregnant wife in a Haitian earthquake 12 years ago, Victor Fielding (Tony winner and Oscar nominee Leslie Odom, Jr.; One Night in Miami, Hamilton) has raised their daughter, Angela (Lidya Jewett, Good Girls) on his own.

But when Angela and her friend Katherine (newcomer Olivia O’Neill), 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.

For the first time since the 1973 film, Oscar winner Ellen Burstyn reprises her iconic role as Chris MacNeil, an actress who has been forever altered by what happened to her daughter Regan five decades before.

The film also stars Emmy winner Ann Dowd (The Handmaid’s Tale, Hereditary) as Victor and Angela’s neighbor, and Grammy winner Jennifer Nettles (Harriet, The Righteous Gemstones) and two-time Tony winner Norbert Leo Butz (Fosse/Verdon, Bloodline) as the parents of Katherine, Angela’s friend.

The Exorcist: Believer is directed by David Gordon Green from a screenplay by Peter Sattler (Camp X-Ray) and David Gordon Green, from a story by Scott Teems (Halloween Kills), Danny McBride (Halloween trilogy) and David Gordon Green, based on characters created by William Peter Blatty.

The film is produced by Jason Blum for Blumhouse and by David Robinson and James G. Robinson for Morgan Creek Entertainment.

The executive producers are Danny McBride, David Gordon Green, Stephanie Allain, Ryan Turek and Atilla Yücer. Universal Pictures presents a Blumhouse/Morgan Creek Entertainment production in association with Rough House Pictures.
Transcript
00:00 You have some experience with possession.
00:02 Yes, more than I'd like.
00:07 An exorcist movie creeps under your skin and gets you.
00:10 We pick up the story of Victor and his daughter Angela.
00:13 A man who's raising his daughter alone.
00:15 Be home by dinner.
00:16 I love you.
00:17 Good morning, Mr. Fielding.
00:18 Angela and Catherine have been friends.
00:20 They're both at that age where they're just finding themselves.
00:24 What are you and Catherine doing out there in those woods?
00:27 We're just walking and walking.
00:30 Their families, in a sense, are opposite to each other.
00:32 Victor's put church and faith behind him.
00:35 The other parents have faith.
00:36 They have community.
00:38 Whatever those girls went through brought something back with them.
00:41 The film is dealing with the vulnerability of parenthood
00:44 with a child that's dealing with possession.
00:46 Have you ever seen anything like this?
00:49 [screams]
00:50 No, but there are people out there who have.
00:56 Playing a character that I created 50 years ago,
01:00 I thought, "She's had 50 years of living.
01:03 Who has she become?"
01:05 Ellen Burstyn really blessed the project.
01:08 Chris McNeil's gonna have her first confrontation
01:10 with a demon in many years.
01:12 Don't be scared.
01:14 We've met before.
01:16 Mother.
01:17 It's a terrifying thought.
01:21 You can be taken over by a force that's inside.
01:26 There have been possessions throughout history.
01:29 It's not just in one location or one religion or one culture.
01:35 It's universal.
01:37 One girl lives, one girl dies.
01:40 God played a trick on you.
01:48 (dramatic music)
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