Tracy Letts

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The Big Picture · The Best Movies About Filmmakers, and ‘Boorman and the Devil’ · 23 Sep 2026 podcast

I think there is something kind of artistically bankrupt about revisiting a thing.

Does the story really need continuation?

The end of the Godfather kind of tells us what's going to happen to Michael.

Now, Godfather 2 gives us what does happen to Michael, but we understand at the end of Godfather from a...

character perspective.

He's already lost at the end of The Godfather.

He's already lost to the dark side.

The interesting part of Godfather Part 2, from a story perspective, is Vito's story, right?

The prequel part of Godfather Part 2.

So I think usually...

And we'll talk more about Mr. Friedkin because, of course, he made the original Exorcist and he made the original French Connection, which we're going to talk about French Connection 1 and 2 on our Hackman pod.

I think that Mr. Friedkin considered the idea of a sequel completely bankrupt, just completely, just a soulless money grab.

just purely for just artists saying, come on, we can make some more money off of this.

That's the reason to do this.

So do you ever need to continue the story?

Now,

Borman says in the documentary, I wasn't looking to continue the story.

I didn't want to continue the story.

He didn't even want to call it Exorcist 2, right?

That was a late-breaking marketing decision to even call it Exorcist 2.

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