One other Exorcist film is coming — however not the one which was beforehand introduced.
Final yr’s The Exorcist: Believer was purported to be the beginning of a brand new trilogy of sequels to the traditional horror film from 1973. Then the movie was a essential and business flop (it made our listing of the worst films of 2023) and never one however two extra sequels to an unpopular horror legacyquel sounded a lot much less interesting.
As an alternative, Blumhouse introduced at present they have been bringing aboard Mike Flanagan to jot down, direct, and produce a “radical new take” on The Exorcist. The press launch explicitly states Flanagan’s movie will “inform an all-new story set in The Exorcist universe and isn’t a sequel to 2023’s The Exorcist: Believer.” There’s nothing obscure about that; when you have been invested in Believer’s storyline, I don’t suppose you’re going to get a decision for it.
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Flanagan has already tackled one huge horror icon in his profession, having made a really respectable sequel to Stephen King and Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining with 2019’s Physician Sleep. He has additionally tailored King’s Gerald’s Sport as a Netflix film and Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill Home and Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the Home of Usher” as streaming miniseries.
Right here was his assertion on the information:
The Exorcist is without doubt one of the causes I grew to become a filmmaker, and it’s an honor to have the prospect to attempt one thing recent, daring, and terrifying inside its universe. Reuniting with my mates at Blumhouse, with whom I’ve made a few of my favourite items of labor, solely makes this extra thrilling.
Flanagan is a proficient man, and precisely the kind of horror filmmaker you’d need to see a “radical new take” on a longtime franchise from; he made a surprisingly efficient prequel to Ouija for goodness sake. The Exorcist: Believer actually stunk, and soured me on watching a brand new Exorcist film anytime quickly — till I heard this information.
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