Mike Flanagan, identified for hit horror reveals and movies, could also be directing the following Exorcist
movie.
Blumhouse and Common hope Flanagan can save the franchise after a current essential flop.
The Exorcist: Deceiver
launch has been delayed after the earlier director’s departure.
Information got here on Could 1, 2024, that Mike Flanagan was becoming a member of the manufacturing of the indie horror movie Shelby Oaks as an government producer, and now phrase has come that he’s additionally in talks to direct the following Exorcist movie for Blumhouse and Common. Flanagan is the author/director behind the Stephen King diversifications of Gerald’s Sport and Physician Sleep, in addition to the creator behind the Netflix hits The Haunting of Hill Home, The Haunting of Bly Manor, and The Fall of the Home of Usher. He helmed the restricted collection masterpiece, Midnight Mass, and his present movie, The Lifetime of Chuck, (one other Stephen King adaptation), wrapped filming in November 2023, and is presently in post-production.
As of now, Blumhouse and Common have declined to remark, however as per Deadline, if Flanagan had been to take over The Exorcist franchise, it might see him change director David Gordon Inexperienced, who exited the undertaking again in January after The Exorcist: Believer was universally panned by critics. The follow-up movie, The Exorcist: Deceiver, was initially deliberate for April 18, 2025, however was pushed again to an undisclosed date after Inexperienced’s departure.
Common and Blumhouse paid a hefty worth for The Exorcist rights again in 2021, buying them for $400 million from Morgan Creek. The worth included issues like streaming rights and attainable theme park sights, and on the time it was believed that there could be three movies made by Inexperienced, much like the current Halloween trilogy he directed. Nonetheless, issues did not go as deliberate, and The Exorcist: Believer failed to fulfill expectations, incomes simply $137 million on the field workplace. The movie presently holds a 22% ranking on Rotten Tomatoes, and was deemed a essential failure by many.
Mike Flanagan May Assist Get The Exorcist Franchise Again on Monitor
Mike Flanagan is lauded within the horror fandom for his consideration to element and storytelling prowess. Ought to his involvement within the subsequent Exorcist movie come to fruition and he does direct the undertaking, it is attainable that the author/director might assist Blumhouse get again on observe with the franchise (and maybe basically, after the poor essential response to Night time Swim and Imaginary). Flanagan’s movies are properly regarded amongst style followers, and apart from his Stephen King and Edgar Allan Poe diversifications, he is additionally discovered success with the essential hits Absentia (2011), Oculus (2013), Hush (2016), and Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016).
As of proper now, Blumhouse founder, Jason Blum, has “no concept” what the following Exorcist movie goes to be but. Talking with The Direct again in March 2024, he did affirm that there will certainly be one other film within the collection. Try his full feedback beneath.
We’re positively going to make one other Exorcist film, however I needed extra time to determine what it might be. I do not know what it’ll be but.
Now that Linda Blair’s participation in The Exorcist: Believer has been revealed, the star talks her return to the franchise.
With Mike Flanagan now getting into the image, there is a recent glimmer of hope for horror followers that the primary collaboration between the 2 will show profitable. Within the meantime, audiences can look ahead to The Lifetime of Chuck, which stars Tom Hiddleston, Mark Hamill, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Karen Gillan.
The Exorcist: Believer is on the market to stream on Prime Video.
