Lidya Jewett will star in The Exorcist, the first film in the rebooted trilogy.

Blumhouse and Morgan Creek are producing the movie for Universal and Peacock with David Gordon Green set to direct all three films.

The first film in the new Exorcist saga will be released theatrically on October 13, 2023.

Jewett is a young actor who has appeared in more than 15 film and television shows. Her feature film credits include the lead role in Sam Raimi’s Nightbooks and the recently released Ivy + Bean, both for Netflix, and the Oscar-nominated Hidden Figures, Black Panther, The Darkest Minds, among several other feature films. In television, Jewett has appeared on Good Girls, Grey’s Anatomy, Bunk’d, and other series.

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Leslie Odom Jr. and Ann Dowd are set to star in the upcoming film. Original cast member Ellen Burstyn is back as Chris MacNeil!

The plot details for the upcoming sequel are minimal but state that:

“Odom Jr. will play the father of a possessed child. Desperate for help, he tracks down Ms. Burstyn’s character.”

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The Exorcist franchise hasn’t been on the big screen since the 2005 release of Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist, an alternate version of the previous year’s Exorcist: The Beginning. Those films came in the wake of 1977’s The Exorcist II: The Heretic and 1990’s The Exorcist III.

More recently, “The Exorcist” became a short-lived television series at Fox, which was surprisingly excellent and cleverly took place in the same world as the original classic. The series was cancelled after just two seasons.

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