Russell Crowe Cast In New Supernatural Thriller The Pope's Exorcist
Thor: Love and Thunder star Russell Crowe has found his next project in the form of Julius Avery's supernatural thriller film The Pope's Exorcist. Based on the internationally bestselling memoirs An Exorcist Tells His Story and An Exorcist: More Stories, the film revolves around Father Gabriele Amorth, the Vatican's chief exorcist who performed over 100,000 exorcisms. The legendary Italian priest, who died in 2016, left behind a trove of additional accounts of his exploits pulling the devil out of people from all over the world.
Now, it's been reported by Deadline that Crowe will take on the role of Father Gabriele in the supernatural thriller movie The Pope's Exorcist, which has been in development at Screen Gems for quite some time. Overlord director Avery will helm the project. The current draft of the screenplay is penned by Evan Spiliotopoulos (Beauty and the Beast) and includes revisions by Chuck MacLean (City on a Hill). Production on The Pope's Exorcist is expected to begin this September.
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The Oscar-winning actor behind Gladiator is set to have a busy couple of years following his commitment to numerous film projects, which includes next year's Sony-Marvel feature Kraven The Hunter, Peter Farrelly's The Greatest Beer Run Ever, and his latest directorial venture, Poker Face, in which he stars opposite Liam Hemsworth and RZA. The road to getting The Pope's Exorcist made has been a turbulent one. However, with the talent confirmed to be involved both in front of and behind the camera, audiences can expect another strong entry into Crowe's ever-growing and decorated filmography when The Pope's Exorcist eventually makes its debut.
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