There are few horror directors today at the level of Mike Flanagan. The director of Doctor Sleep and Gerald’s Game has been killing it on Netflix for years with impressive horror series like Midnight Mass or The Haunting of Hill House, and now he’s about to make a comeback to the big screen with an equally interesting proposal.
As just announced, Flanagan has returned to Blumhouse production company to produce and direct a new movie of The Exorcist. The filmmaker will readapt the classic in a unique way, as announced. In this way, he will not follow the latest sequel of the saga, The Exorcist: Believer, and it will serve as a completely independent film, allowing him to reinvent it as much as he wants.
“The Exorcist is one of the reasons why I became a filmmaker”
“The Exorcist is one of the reasons I became a filmmaker, and it is an honor to have the opportunity to try something fresh, bold, and terrifying within its universe. Meeting up with my friends at Blumhouse, with whom I have made some of my favorite works, only makes this more exciting,” the director declared in Deadline.
The president and CEO of Morgan Creek, David Robinson, has also spoken about the project, making it clear that the film is in good hands with Mike Flanagan: “It is an honor to work with Mike. I believe his vision for this franchise is going to surprise audiences worldwide, and I couldn’t be more excited to work with him, Trevor, Jason, and the entire Blumhouse team.”
With this new version of The Exorcist, Mike Flanagan will have a total of four collaborations with Blumhouse, as he has previously directed Oculus (2013), Hush (2016), and Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016) for the studio. It was Flanagan’s leap to the forefront of horror, and now it is confirmed again with this feature film.
