William Friedkin recently sat down with UK’s Guardian ‘In The Director’s Chair’ segment to once again discuss the newly released French Connection on Blu-ray. Interviewer Jason Solomons brought up questions about The Exorcist in the second half of the interview — not so much about The Exorcist Blu-ray release, but more about the film itself and his thoughts on sequels to his original films (French Connection also had a sequel produced that he was not involved with in any way).
Interesting to hear Friedkin rip on all of the sequels and prequels of The Exorcist: “They have absolutely no interest to me whatever,” he says while grimacing in his chair. You can watch the entire video below.
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What do you think? Surely he would have given his old pal and Exorcist author William Peter Blatty’s third installment Legion a watch, no?