Mike Flanagan Confirmed To Direct "Radical New" Exorcist Movie

Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Horror fan favorite writer-director Mike Flanagan will helm a new Exorcist movie, which will not be a sequel to last year's Believer. The iconic franchise was revived in late 2023 with David Gordon Green's The Exorcist: Believer, a legacy sequel and reboot that was meant to kickstart a new franchise in the same vain as his Halloween legacy sequel trilogy.

Now, The Hollywood Reporter confirms Flanagan will direct what is being called a "radical new take" on the Exorcist franchise. Specifics of what that means are currently being kept under wraps, but it will not be The Exorcist: Deceiver. As the director of this new iteration of the franchise, Flanagan will be returning to the fold at Blumhouse, where he made several of his early horror movies including 2016's Hush and 2013's Oculus.

Mike Flanagan Is The Perfect Person To Turn The Exorcist Around The Horror Director Has Made A Career Out Of Defying Franchise Expectations Blumhouse reuniting with Flanagan could be very good news for their upcoming Exorcist movies. The filmmaker has already proven his ability to rehabilitate one of their horror franchises when he took on a prequel to Blumhouse's poorly-reviewed horror hit Ouija, a movie that had a major Rotten Tomatoes splat but nevertheless grossed $103.

Although audiences were less warm on Origin of Evil than critics, who gave it a Certified Fresh score, Flanagan's take on the material nevertheless earned more than twice the original movie's user score.

Other Mike Flanagan Netflix horrors that succeeded despite legendary source material include The Haunting of Bly Manor and The Fall of the House of Usher . With this proven track record of handling classic horror properties with care, Flanagan may be the perfect filmmaker to tackle The Exorcist.

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