The Exorcist: Deceiver is dead. Long live, Mike Flanagan‘s untitled The Exorcist movie.
Per Deadline, Blumhouse, Morgan Creek, and Universal have selected Flanagan to write and direct a new installment in The Exorcist franchise. This will not be a direct sequel to last year’s The Exorcist: Believer, but instead “a radical new take” on the franchise.
Believer was the first entry in a planned trilogy of Exorcist movies from filmmaker David Gordon Green. However, after Believer failed at the box office (and with critics), Green stepped down from directing the sequel, Deceiver. Now, the trilogy plans have been scrapped and Flanagan has been brought in to add some fresh creative juice to the series.
Flanagan is perhaps best known as the creator, producer, and showrunner of the Netflix supernatural horror anthology series The Haunting of Hill House and The Haunting of Bly Manor. He has also directed several Stephen King adaptations, including Gerald’s Game (2017) and Doctor Sleep (2019).
The filmmaker has also written and directed three Blumhouse movies: Oculus (2013), Hush (2016), and Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016). So yeah, I think it’s safe to say that the man knows his horror.
“The Exorcist is one of the reasons I became a filmmaker, and it is an honor to have the chance to try something fresh, bold, and terrifying within its universe,” said Flanagan in a statement. “Reuniting with my friends at Blumhouse, with whom I’ve made some of my favorite pieces of work, only makes this more exciting.”
The untitled Exorcist movie does not have a release date at this time.
Are you excited for Mike Flanagan to bring his creative juices to The Exorcist franchise?
