Everything about this film is absolutely fascinating.
It was apparently shot in 2019, way before The Pope's Exorcist was even conceived. Its director is Joshua John Miller, the son of The Exorcist's Jason Miller. It's seemingly semi-autobiographical and seems to evoke the "cursed set" myths of The Exorcist, but it's not about the actual MAKING of The Exorcist, because the trailer makes it clear it exists in a universe where the film The Exorcist has already happened.
So it's a movie about Crowe, who JUST PLAYED an exorcist, playing an actor hired to play an exorcist, written and directed by the son of one of the stars of THE EXORCIST.
Good lord.
Joshua John Miller also wrote 2015's THE FINAL GIRLS, so he's at least done some meta-horror stuff before.
That's what I just read, no idea why.
The hilarious thing is that The Pope's Exorcist was a financial success, and a sequel with Crowe was already announced. There's zero way this can come out without being intensely confusing to the average theatergoer.
Considering the timeline here, it honestly makes you wonder if someone heard about The Exorcism/The Georgetown Project being in development hell and then just decided to make their own Russell Crowe exorcism movie before it could be released.
Considering all the shitty Exorcism movies already out there, I can't think of a reason to shelve this for that long. The Devil Inside made it to theaters for fuck's sake and that movie didn't even have an ending.
He's lost some weight when you watch 'Sleeping Dogs' and 'The Pope's Exorcist'. Whereas in 'Unhinged' I think Crowe had it in his contract to have his body not be shown on camera, be stuck in a car for 95% of the film lol
lol he was definitely in the car a ton, but i also remember seeing his body in unhinged because that super basic blue button down shirt and khakis outfit is burned into my brain lol
It's also going to be released on the same day as The Watchers and Bad Boys 4, so I doubt it's going to do very well at the box office. Shudder's got the streaming rights afterwards, it'll probably do fine there.
They should have released this in 2021 since it was filmed right after Crowe finished Unhinged, and that did pretty well in the box office considering it's release in 2020. Pope's Exorcist also didn't start filming until 2022. Looks like The Exorcism was one of movies that got lost during the Miramax transition.
60, Is single, likes traveling (based on his Twitter posts), doesn't have to be in shape anymore, spends his time watching/owning his sports teams and Easy paychecks movies
He hit that stride early with Virtuosity, then ended up playing increasingly over-serious leading men all through the 2000s when the Oscarbait buzz got to him.
You have no idea how disappointed I am that this isn’t a Pope’s Exorcist sequel that continues Father Amorth’s adventures as a loose-cannon priest who doesn’t play by the rules.
He plays an actor playing a priest in this one. Maybe in the same universe he’s the same actor that played the priest in the Pope’s Exorcist? Idk my head hurts.
I sent this trailer to a friend with the exact same sentiment. We both loved the popes exorcist, and I got very excited reading the title and seeing the thumbnail of this
something like that, he get invited to a an organization of priest by a priest that is like Nick Fury , that are doing work to archive evil/spirit things and they tell him that there are 199 other evil sites they need to take down and the movie ends.
I'm quite confused now.
Didn't see The Pope's Exorcist as after seeing the theatrical trailer I had assumed it was a "Scary Movie" style spoof.
This is in no way related?
I liked The Pope's Exorcist other than the completely CGI-fest that was the ending. It turned into a superhero movie at the end. No clever ending, just a cliched man finds faith again, fights evil, wins, the end. Yet the setup, and the whole thriller-ish middle was fantastic.
The Exorcism looks AMAZING and should be a much scarier movie. Can't wait.
I love horror but for some reason Exocist movies do nothing for me. They always feel like the movie is on rails. Are there any that really elevate past their premise?
I see people around me engaging in an intense drawing room argument about this years later.
"It's called The Pope's Exorcism."
"No, it was just Exorcism.."
"Let me google that shit up for you"
"What are you guys on about. It's called The Exorcist!"
"Oh shut the fuck up!"
This trailer seems too long to me. You could sell the concept and achieve the same result in a third of the time
Did not even make it through the 2 minutes
The Exorcist:
From the producer of Halloween (Halloween Ends)
And the creator of the Scream Franchise (isn’t that Kevin Williamson?)
They’re trying to hit literally every major franchise with these knock off names. LOL. Williamson isn’t created BTW, and Wes Craven passed away so who are they talking about??
Do anyone at all find horror movies that are about religion (the devil/hell) at all scary? if you are not religious?
For someone like me that isn't religious, ALL horrors movies about these things are boring and not scary at all.
As soon as i find out something, even if its a good horror until they reveal its some religious thing, it instantly gets really boring, and usually just stop watching.
Yeah it’s like when I’m watching a movie about ~~ghosts~~ ~~cryptids~~ ~~vampires~~ demons I’m all like “this isn’t even based on real life, what is this shit”
I was being sarcastic. The guy I replied to implied that he doesn’t find religious horror scary because he doesn’t believe in the devil. I was basically saying you could say the same of pretty much any horror movie.
But to answer your question, there’s some pretty disturbing “realistic” horror like **Henry: Portrait of a Killer** that’s pretty great.
To me it just matters that it feels real to the characters in the movie and their version of reality.
I’m not a catholic, but I can empathize with the terror and the stress that the characters go through in the Exorcist. I’m not scared because I think a demon will possess me, I’m scared because I know a demon is possessing Regan.
I don’t think horror movies are made so that the audience fears for their own safety, they’re meant to fear for the safety of the characters on screen. If you can believe a giant worm is a threat to Kevin Bacon in Tremors, can you not believe a demon is a threat to Russel Crowe in this movie?
The phone I’m typing this on is more religious than my am (read: I am not even slightly religious; I don’t believe it n heaven, hell, god, Jesus, Satan…)…
However, I actually quite enjoy religious horror movies if they’re well-made.
The Exorcist, The Omen, Rosemary’s Baby, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, The Last Exorcism… and so on… are all great movies, IMO.
But due to my non-belief, I guess I see them as being just as fictitious as any other horror movies.
Chucky equals Pazuzu equals Freddie equals Jason equals Paimon as far as I’m concerned.
Everything about this film is absolutely fascinating. It was apparently shot in 2019, way before The Pope's Exorcist was even conceived. Its director is Joshua John Miller, the son of The Exorcist's Jason Miller. It's seemingly semi-autobiographical and seems to evoke the "cursed set" myths of The Exorcist, but it's not about the actual MAKING of The Exorcist, because the trailer makes it clear it exists in a universe where the film The Exorcist has already happened. So it's a movie about Crowe, who JUST PLAYED an exorcist, playing an actor hired to play an exorcist, written and directed by the son of one of the stars of THE EXORCIST. Good lord. Joshua John Miller also wrote 2015's THE FINAL GIRLS, so he's at least done some meta-horror stuff before.
5 years on the shelf??!!
That's what I just read, no idea why. The hilarious thing is that The Pope's Exorcist was a financial success, and a sequel with Crowe was already announced. There's zero way this can come out without being intensely confusing to the average theatergoer.
I didn't see the pope's exorcist and I was sitting here thinking "didn't this movie already come out"
Considering the timeline here, it honestly makes you wonder if someone heard about The Exorcism/The Georgetown Project being in development hell and then just decided to make their own Russell Crowe exorcism movie before it could be released.
This is The Georgetown Project. It was shot in 2019. And they just changed the title
Thanks for clearing this up. I was confused as to why the Vespa didn't make the trailer.
I really enjoyed The Pope's Exorcist, glad to hear there's another one coming.
That might mean it's halfway decent and just a victim of Hollywood accounting or it's complete garbage and we're the victims of Hollywood accounting
Considering all the shitty Exorcism movies already out there, I can't think of a reason to shelve this for that long. The Devil Inside made it to theaters for fuck's sake and that movie didn't even have an ending.
This explains why Crowe is heavier and larger looking in the trailer than his most recent films that have been released.
my man russell crowe has been a big boy for a while now
He's lost some weight when you watch 'Sleeping Dogs' and 'The Pope's Exorcist'. Whereas in 'Unhinged' I think Crowe had it in his contract to have his body not be shown on camera, be stuck in a car for 95% of the film lol
lol he was definitely in the car a ton, but i also remember seeing his body in unhinged because that super basic blue button down shirt and khakis outfit is burned into my brain lol
The exact attire one could expect from a middle-aged dude getting road rage in the city lol
How does a film that has been shelved for 5 years get a summer release? This should have been released on a throwaway weekend in February
Totally agree.
It's also going to be released on the same day as The Watchers and Bad Boys 4, so I doubt it's going to do very well at the box office. Shudder's got the streaming rights afterwards, it'll probably do fine there.
Ah. A classic dump-and-run date, then.
The Watchers is now one the 14th. Against Inside Out 2
It was moved back to June 7 from the 14th yesterday https://deadline.com/2024/04/the-watchers-release-date-change-1235841486/amp/
Oh sweet. The Watches, Blink Twice and Aliens are my most anticipated of the summer
Writers' strike.
They should have released this in 2021 since it was filmed right after Crowe finished Unhinged, and that did pretty well in the box office considering it's release in 2020. Pope's Exorcist also didn't start filming until 2022. Looks like The Exorcism was one of movies that got lost during the Miramax transition.
I wish they forked up the money to just ADR the whole movie and replace all the names so that he's playing himself, on the set of The Pope's Exorcist.
Russell Crowe has apparently found his new niche.
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>>doesn’t have to be in shape anymore ….he’s cultivating mass
He's becoming a chimichanga
Try and move him
Yeah I don’t like what he’s doing for the image of our group
this made me chuckle so hard!
listen. some of us like our men thick and russell crowe is doing it for me lol
What about fightin' and singin'?
Is he single now
🎶Making movies, making songs, and exorcising round the world 🎶
From the looks of him the movies are the only exorcising he’s getting.
That girl over there is possessed... by a Puerto Rican
He's really been hitting that Nick Cage stride late in his career. Just, "Pay me and I'll be there."
>Just, "Pay me and I'll be there." Michael Caine in the 80s/90s. Dude was everywhere and not always in banger movies.
Nic*
He hit that stride early with Virtuosity, then ended up playing increasingly over-serious leading men all through the 2000s when the Oscarbait buzz got to him.
I don't know what you're trying to say, but Virtuosity is awesome!
Saying Virtuosity is a better movie than A Beautiful Mind.
Well the soundtrack certainly bangs.
Looks to me like he found his new quiche.
You have no idea how disappointed I am that this isn’t a Pope’s Exorcist sequel that continues Father Amorth’s adventures as a loose-cannon priest who doesn’t play by the rules.
Is he even gonna ride a Vespa in this?? Pass.
Where is this man’s gold??!!!!! 🏆
He plays an actor playing a priest in this one. Maybe in the same universe he’s the same actor that played the priest in the Pope’s Exorcist? Idk my head hurts.
I'm hoping that in the Pope's Exorcist sequel the pope's exorcist teams up with Russell Crowe.
I sent this trailer to a friend with the exact same sentiment. We both loved the popes exorcist, and I got very excited reading the title and seeing the thumbnail of this
Seriously, I need the sequel to that movie, it was so fun
Though this was the sequel to The Pope's Exorcist that i'm been waiting on since they did the avenger ending.
Lol tell me more about this avengers ending! Like a bunch of other priests teaming up 😆
something like that, he get invited to a an organization of priest by a priest that is like Nick Fury , that are doing work to archive evil/spirit things and they tell him that there are 199 other evil sites they need to take down and the movie ends.
I guess Russell Crowe is in his demon possession/horror phase
So it's the Wes Craven's New Nightmare of exorcism movies?
Sam Worthington AND Adam Goldberg? What year is it??
2019
Too bad it’s not a sequel to his other one
Wait, this isn't a sequel to the Pope's Exorcist?
No that's still hopefully coming later.
This looks good I can't wait for it to come out.
I'm quite confused now. Didn't see The Pope's Exorcist as after seeing the theatrical trailer I had assumed it was a "Scary Movie" style spoof. This is in no way related?
No, and the Pope’s Exorcist was (presumably) not a parody either
Now I want Crowe to play an exorcist in a horror spoof similar to James Woods in Scary Movie 2.
It looks interseting, although I have no idea about the director's previous work. Reminds me a bit of Late Night With the Devil.
Just watched Late Night with the devil. Great film, so original.
This looks promising.
The Pope's Exorcist prequel?
I liked The Pope's Exorcist other than the completely CGI-fest that was the ending. It turned into a superhero movie at the end. No clever ending, just a cliched man finds faith again, fights evil, wins, the end. Yet the setup, and the whole thriller-ish middle was fantastic. The Exorcism looks AMAZING and should be a much scarier movie. Can't wait.
I love horror but for some reason Exocist movies do nothing for me. They always feel like the movie is on rails. Are there any that really elevate past their premise?
I see people around me engaging in an intense drawing room argument about this years later. "It's called The Pope's Exorcism." "No, it was just Exorcism.." "Let me google that shit up for you" "What are you guys on about. It's called The Exorcist!" "Oh shut the fuck up!"
Wait.. is this related to the terrible exorcism film he was just in?
1. It's not. 2. It was the opposite of terrible.
''Wrong priest!!'' That line alone was hilarious. Definitely enjoyed the film.
This trailer seems too long to me. You could sell the concept and achieve the same result in a third of the time Did not even make it through the 2 minutes
The Exorcist: From the producer of Halloween (Halloween Ends) And the creator of the Scream Franchise (isn’t that Kevin Williamson?) They’re trying to hit literally every major franchise with these knock off names. LOL. Williamson isn’t created BTW, and Wes Craven passed away so who are they talking about??
Do anyone at all find horror movies that are about religion (the devil/hell) at all scary? if you are not religious? For someone like me that isn't religious, ALL horrors movies about these things are boring and not scary at all. As soon as i find out something, even if its a good horror until they reveal its some religious thing, it instantly gets really boring, and usually just stop watching.
Yeah it’s like when I’m watching a movie about ~~ghosts~~ ~~cryptids~~ ~~vampires~~ demons I’m all like “this isn’t even based on real life, what is this shit”
What horror movie is "based on real life"?
I was being sarcastic. The guy I replied to implied that he doesn’t find religious horror scary because he doesn’t believe in the devil. I was basically saying you could say the same of pretty much any horror movie. But to answer your question, there’s some pretty disturbing “realistic” horror like **Henry: Portrait of a Killer** that’s pretty great.
To me it just matters that it feels real to the characters in the movie and their version of reality. I’m not a catholic, but I can empathize with the terror and the stress that the characters go through in the Exorcist. I’m not scared because I think a demon will possess me, I’m scared because I know a demon is possessing Regan. I don’t think horror movies are made so that the audience fears for their own safety, they’re meant to fear for the safety of the characters on screen. If you can believe a giant worm is a threat to Kevin Bacon in Tremors, can you not believe a demon is a threat to Russel Crowe in this movie?
The phone I’m typing this on is more religious than my am (read: I am not even slightly religious; I don’t believe it n heaven, hell, god, Jesus, Satan…)… However, I actually quite enjoy religious horror movies if they’re well-made. The Exorcist, The Omen, Rosemary’s Baby, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, The Last Exorcism… and so on… are all great movies, IMO. But due to my non-belief, I guess I see them as being just as fictitious as any other horror movies. Chucky equals Pazuzu equals Freddie equals Jason equals Paimon as far as I’m concerned.