The Haunting of Hill Home Creator Mike Flanagan is ready to reboot The Exorcist, and Common has set a launch date.
If there’s one date horror films like to land on, it is Friday the thirteenth. That is precisely the date Common selected to launch Flanagan’s model of the traditional horror sequence, particularly March 13, 2026, so it is nearly a few years away (by way of Deadline). The reboot was introduced final month, the place Flanagan stated his objective is to do one thing “contemporary, daring and scary inside his universe.” In response to the unique press launch, the movie is “a completely new story set in The Exorcist universe and isn’t a sequel to 2023’s The Exorcist: Believer.”
This final half is clearly vital for Common to say, as it’s possible you’ll not have realized {that a} new Exorcist film was launched final yr, the aforementioned Exorcist: Believer. It solely grossed $137 million on the field workplace, which with a $30 million finances usually would not be that dangerous, however Common had acquired the rights to the sequence in 2021 for a dear $400 million. So, you may see why he might not have been pleased with how the sequel turned out. The Exorcist: Believer was truly supposed to be the primary a part of a trilogy, nevertheless it has since been scrapped in favor of rebooting the franchise, which is why we now have Flanagan’s movie within the works.
Like Believer, the reboot may also be produced by Blumhouse, marking this the fourth time the manufacturing firm and Flanagan have labored collectively. They beforehand made Oculus (2013), Hush (2016) and Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016) collectively. Flanagan is presently greatest identified for his quite a few Netflix sequence reminiscent of The Haunting of Hill Home and Midnight Mass, in addition to the sequel to 2019’s The Shining, Physician Sleep.
