Julius Avery's"The Pope's Exorcist": Everything You Need To Know

The Pope's Exorcist is an upcoming supernatural horror film starring Russell Ira Crowe as Father Gabriele Amorth. Crowe is an award winning actor who's had lots of different movie roles before. Such roles include Roman General Maximus Demicus Meridius in Gladiator (2000), Jeffrey Wigand in The Insider(1999) and John Forbes Nash Junior in A Beautiful Mind(2001). He's also starred in superhero movies such as Jor-El in Man Of Steel(2013), Zeus Panhellenios in Thor: Love and Thunder(2022) and is expected to star in Kraven The Hunter(2023). Aside from the few listed above, he's starred in a lot more as there's no limit to this mans career.

About The Movie

To hype up the upcoming movie more before its official release date, Russell Crowe took to Twitter reminding fans its release date and also revealing its official trailer. He precisely said "Coming out in most territories around the world in April
THE POPE'S EXORCIST - official Trailer(HD)............ "

The movie is based on Amorth's memoir. A memoir is basically like a biography or autobiography of oneself. Meaning in this case, the story is centered around Amorth's life. Father Gabriele Amorth was a Italian Catholic Priest born on the 1 May 1925 and exorcist of the Diocese Of Rome who claimed to have performed tens of thousands of exorcisms throughout his life. He is also one of the founders of the International Association of Exorcists. William Friedkin who is also the director of the Exorcist made a documentary about Father Gabriele Amorth who unfortunately passed away at age 91 on 16 September 2016 because of health complications. Screen Gem got the rights to tell the story of the exorcist's life was gotten from Michael Patrick Kaczmarek and Loyola productions which included the rights to Amorth's two best-selling memoirs "An Exorcist Tells His Story and An Exorcist: More Stories". It also included more details about how he conquered demons taking possession of people.

Team Behind It

The film is directed by Julius Avery, Julius Avery is an Australian film director responsible for works such as 2014 Sun of a Gun, 2018 Overlord and 2022 Samaritan. Aside from being a film director, he's also a screenwriter. Australian screenwriter, director Michael Petroni and Greek screenwriter ,film producer and film director Evan Spiliotopoulos are in charge of screenplay with Michael Petroni also being in charge of story boarding along with Chester Hastings and Dean McCreary. Screen Gems acquired the rights to the story of Father Gabriele Amorth in October 2020 with Angel Gomez assigned to direct but this was later revised in June 2022 when Julius became director along with producer Doug Belgrad of 2.0 Entertainment. Production was left in the hands of Doug Belgrad, Michael Patrick, Kaczmarek and Jeff Katz with Sony Pictures being its main distribution outlet.

Cast

Aside from Russell Crowe, other cast members include Canadian actress Alexandra Essoe, Costa Rican actor Daniel Zovatto-blanco, Italian actor Francesco Clemente Giuseppe Sparanero, Cornell S. John, Laurel Marsden, Peter DeSouza-Feighoney and English actor Ralph Michael Ineson. The Filming of this movie took place in Ireland from August to October 2022 in Dublin and limerick. After a lot of anticipation the POPE's EXORCIST is finally going to hit theatres and fans like myself are very excited. It’s said to release on April 14 in the United States, any additional information will be updated.

Closure

The Pope's Exorcist is set to release in the United States On April 14 so make sure to remember that date. There's currently a lot of hype surrounding the movie and from its trailer, it looks very promising.

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