Mike Flanagan Set To Direct “Radical New Take” On ‘Exorcist’ For Blumhouse

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Blumhouse has made official that which is already out there: Doctor Sleep filmmaker Mike Flanagan is writing, directing and producing "a radical new take" on The Exorcist in a new film with the genre producer and Morgan Creek.

This all comes in the wake of the last movie, The Exorcist: Believer, flailing at the B.O. with $65.5M U.S./Canada and $136.2M WW, this after NBCUni, Peacock, Blumhouse bought the rights from Morgan Creek back in July 2021 for $400M. David Gordon Green, the director of that movie, withdrew from the next installment.

The next movie here about demon-possessed people and the Jesuit priests that wrangle them is billed as "an all-new story set in The Exorcist universe and is not a sequel to 2023's The Exorcist: Believer" per the press release. Pic will be produced by Trevor Macy on behalf of Intrepid Pictures and Flanagan via his new Red Room Pictures banner. John Scherer will also be working on the film on behalf of Intrepid.

Doctor Sleep was great but made less than the awful Exorcist: Believer at the box office, with only $72m worldwide on a $45m budget.

We shall see how this turns out.