Followers of The Exorcist would possibly really feel their stomachs flip a bit upon studying that Mike Flanagan‘s deliberate movie may take longer to hit theaters than anticipated.
The filmmaker took to Tumblr to answer a fan’s query concerning whether or not his new film within the franchise was nonetheless shifting ahead. The Hollywood Reporter reported final 12 months that Flanagan could be writing, directing and producing a brand new undertaking within the Exorcist universe for Common Footage that was scheduled for launch on March 13, 2026. A solid has not but been introduced.
Flanagan defined in his publish that his first precedence is his Carrie collection for Amazon MGM Studios that adapts Stephen King’s 1974 novel. “Manufacturing hasn’t began, we have to end Carrie first,” Flanagan wrote. “No manner it’s popping out subsequent March. Nothing to fret about although.”
On Wednesday, Common eliminated the movie from its 2026 launch calendar and changed it with an untitled Blumhouse film.
This new Exorcist characteristic that hails from Blumhouse and Morgan Creek was introduced in Might 2024 and won’t be a sequel to a earlier movie within the franchise. This adopted Common shelling out a whopping $400 million in 2021 to land an Exorcist trilogy from director David Gordon Inexperienced. The trilogy was scrapped after Inexperienced’s The Exorcist: Believer, which hit theaters in 2023, was poorly obtained by critics and picked up $137 million on the field workplace.
The franchise kicked off with director William Friedkin’s Oscar-winning 1973 horror film The Exorcist that stars Ellen Burstyn and Max von Sydow. It adapts writer William Peter Blatty’s 1971 novel of the identical identify.
Throughout an interview final 12 months with THR, Flanagan addressed the strain surrounding his Exorcist movie being billed as a radical new tackle the property.
“I chased The Exorcist very aggressively as a result of I used to be satisfied I had one thing that I may add,” he mentioned on the time. “This is a chance to do one thing that I consider has by no means been achieved throughout the franchise — one thing that honors what got here earlier than it however isn’t constructed on nostalgia. I actually simply noticed a possibility to make the scariest film I’ve ever made. I do know expectations are excessive. Nobody’s extra intimidated than I’m.”
Flanagan is thought for the Netflix collection The Fall of the Home of Usher and The Haunting of Hill Home and for helming options together with Physician Sleep. Neon releases his newest film, The Lifetime of Chuck, in choose theaters Friday.
A model of this story was initially revealed June 4 at 12:30 p.m.