A planned trilogy of new films was scrapped after ‘The Exorcist: Believer’ proved to be a major miss.
A planned trilogy of new films was scrapped after ‘The Exorcist: Believer’ proved to be a major miss.
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Horror Maestro Mike Flanagan’s reimagined The Exorcist film will hit theaters on March 13, 2026, Universal announced Tuesday. Put another way, this isn’t the devil you think you know.
Blumhouse and Morgan Creek’s plans for a trilogy of new The Exorcist films was derailed with the poor and polarizing response to last year’s The Exorcist Believer, directed by David Gordon Green. Last month, the filmmakers announced they were giving the reigns of the franchise over to Flanagan.
Flanagan, whose credits include The Haunting of Hill House, Midnight Mass, Gerald’s Game, Doctor Sleep and the new The Fall of the House of Usher has created an entirely new narrative nightmare that is not a sequel to any previous Exorcist film and that charts a new course for the film franchise.
The film will be produced by Flanagan’s longtime collaborative producer Trevor Macy (The Haunting of Hill House, Midnight Mass) for Intrepid Pictures, by Flanagan for his Red Room Pictures, and by Jason Blum (Five Nights at Freddy’s, M3GAN) for Blumhouse. This Exorcist film will mark Flanagan’s fourth Blumhouse film. His previous Blumhouse titles were Oculus, Hush and Ouija: Origin of Evil, which were all also produced by Macy.
When The Exorcist, based on the best-selling book by William Peter Blatty, was released in 1973, it changed culture forever and became the first horror film ever nominated for best picture.