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The Exorcist: Believer’s Director David Gordon Green Responds to the Original Exorcist Filmmaker’s Intense Criticisms · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Universal Studios certainly believed in the power of rebooting the
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  Speaker 2: Exorcist franchise, spending a reported and staggering four hundred million
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  Speaker 2: dollars just for its rights, but the Oscar winning director
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  Speaker 2: behind the nineteen seventy three original, William Friedkin, was not
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  Speaker 2: so keen on the prospects. In fact, he was so
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  Speaker 2: against it he joked he would return from the dead
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  Speaker 2: to possess the director of the new movie, The Exorcist Believer,
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  Speaker 2: David Gordon Green, simply to make his life help. Not
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  Speaker 2: exactly what you want to hear as you dive into
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  Speaker 2: a project, however, David tells The Hollywood Reporter he actually
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  Speaker 2: wanted to screen Extorsist Believer for William, but William passed
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  Speaker 2: away before David got the chance. David adds, there was
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  Speaker 2: a skepticism at the beginning of this undertaking, but I
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  Speaker 2: was excited to show it to him. As it came together,
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  Speaker 2: I found myself more and more proud of what we'd done.
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  Speaker 1: So it was.
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  Speaker 2: Disappointing that I don't get to expose myself in that way,
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  Speaker 2: which no joke would have been really intimidating, But I
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  Speaker 2: was ready to have that conversation, and I was ready
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  Speaker 2: to invite him to experience this if he was up
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  Speaker 2: for it. The words of David Gordon Green, the Exorcist,
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  Speaker 2: Believers in Theaters.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.