With its faux documentary, could this do for exorcism movies what Cloverfield did for the Godzilla movie?
Yeah, definitely. The script’s really, really smart, and really clever. How do you top The Exorcist? Well, you don’t – you just make your own. You do a different story, with a different style, and you just make it its own thing. And you make a scary version. There are a lot of scary ghost movies, there are a lot of vampire movies. It’s just a different movie. I thought Exorcism of Emily Rose was quite good. Even though that was a court movie, I thought there were some really creepy scenes in it. But this is really a good, pure, scary, horror, exorcism movie. It’s terrific. You’re tackling a new genre with the sci-fi film you’ll shoot next year, Endangered Species… I get to work as soon as Basterds comes out. I love Close Encounters and Jurassic Park and Transformers and Cloverfield. I love scary sci-fi that’s PG 13. I wanted to do something that was fun and scary. The story doesn’t necessarily need to be graphically violent, but I wanted to see something big with lots of mass destructi
