The Exorcist franchise is getting a makeover following the polarizing
response to last year’s The Exorcist: Believer.
Horror maestro Mike Flanagan will write, direct and produce what Blumhouse is describing as a “radical new take” on the franchise, one that will be set in the
Exorcist universe but will not be a sequel to
Believer.
Flanagan’s
Exorcist hiring is a notable change in direction that comes nearly three years after Universal announced a $400 million
megadeal that would allow it to make a trilogy of
Exorcist films to be helmed by David Gordon Green
, the filmmaker behind Universal and Blumhouse’s hit
Halloween movies. Those plans were put on the shelf after Green’s
Believer earned negative reviews and brought in $137 million at the box office.