The release date for The Exorcist: Believer has been preponed by the makers. The film, which was set to hit theatres on October 13, will now arrive a week earlier on October 6. The change of plans comes after the announcement that Taylor Swift's concert film from her Eras tour is arriving in theatres on October 13.

Directed by David Gordon Green, the upcoming film is the sixth instalment in The Exorcist franchise and will be a direct sequel to The Exorcist (1973).  

The film's synopsis read, "Since the death of his pregnant wife in a Haitian earthquake 12 years ago, Victor Fielding (Leslie Odom, Jr) has raised their daughter, Angela (Lidya Jewett, Good Girls), on his own. But when Angela and her friend Katherine (Olivia Marcum) disappear in the woods, only to return three days later with no memory of what happened to them, it unleashes a chain of events that will force Victor to confront the nadir of evil and, in his terror and desperation, seek out the only person alive who has witnessed anything like it before, Chris MacNeil" 

The Exorcist: Believer has a script Green co-wrote with Peter Sattler from a story he wrote with  Scott Teems and Danny McBride, based on characters created by William Peter Blatty. The upcoming film will feature Ellen Burstyn as Chris MacNeil, which she essayed in the 1973 film. The film also stars winner Ann Dowd, Jennifer Nettles, and Norbert Leo Butz.