A born raconteur, 81-year-old Hollywood legend William Friedkin still has the itch.
While some other men his age have already resigned themselves to the golf course (if not the grave), the director of films like “Sorcerer” and “The Exorcist” can’t help but continue to tell stories.
He’s possessed by a spiritual compulsion to spin yarns, inflame imaginations, and reach into the unknown folds of our world.
It’s been seven years since his last feature (2011’s gleefully insane “Killer Joe”), but the guy hasn’t exactly been twiddling his thumbs — after all, idle hands are the devil’s playthings.Friedkin’s latest project is basically what happens when an octogenarian auteur — too seasoned to navigate the studio system, but too sprightly to be silenced — picks up a consumer-grade digital camera and makes an unofficial sequel to their most famous film.
No lawyers, no money, no crew.
Non-union, and non-fiction.
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