Scarlett Johansson appears to be like to have discovered her first correct horror movie with Mike Flanagan’s The Exorcist. After the disappointing vital and industrial reception to 2023’s The Exorcist: Believer, Blumhouse and Morgan Creek Leisure pivoted away from their trilogy plans with David Gordon Inexperienced to start out anew with Flanagan signing on to write down, direct and produce the movie in June 2024.
Regardless of an preliminary plan for a March 2026 launch date, Flanagan’s Exorcist reboot was placed on an unspecified delay as he turned his focus to his sequence adaptation of Stephen King’s Carrie, chalking up a part of the main target to rights offers and the like. Nonetheless, the filmmaker has persistently assured he would return to creating the horror reboot, with Blumhouse describing his imaginative and prescient as being a “radical new” tackle the basic franchise.
Now, Common Photos has introduced that Johansson has grow to be the primary star to hitch Flanagan’s Exorcist reboot. Exterior sources report that Blumhouse and Morgan Creek had been having numerous conferences with A-list expertise to guide the movie, with Johansson being eyed after her success with Jurassic World Rebirth, and that scheduling round each Flanagan and the Oscar nominee’s future docket needed to be labored out, however will possible be their subsequent shoot. Flanagan wrote about Johansson’s casting within the following assertion:
Scarlett is a superb actress whose charming performances all the time really feel grounded and actual, from style movies to summer season blockbusters, and I couldn’t be happier to have her be a part of this Exorcist movie.
Johansson’s casting for Flanagan’s Exorcist reboot comes as a welcome shock for a couple of causes, the primary of which is that it marks the star’s first correct horror film. Previous to the upcoming movie, the closest the Oscar nominee had come to showing within the style was co-starring in 2003’s Eight Legged Freaks, a primarily humorous send-up of monster B films.
Moreover, Johansson’s casting gives the primary replace in months as to any progress being made on Flanagan’s Exorcist take. The filmmaker did announce manufacturing having wrapped on Carrie simply previous to Halloween, whereas additionally revealing throughout ScreenRant‘s panel with him and Kate Siegel at Motor Metropolis Comedian Con shortly thereafter that he had simply frolicked modifying episode 5 of the King adaptation.
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With this ahead momentum within the movie, the query then turns into when Flanagan’s The Exorcist would possibly hit theaters. If he, Common and Blumhouse actually pushed for a fast manufacturing, the film might launch in time for the fifty fifth anniversary of William Peter Blatty’s novel that kickstarted the horror franchise. Nonetheless, given Flanagan is understood for his meticulous strategy to filmmaking, and the studio possible desires to make sure the subsequent one is a win after Believer‘s disappointment, it appears possible The Exorcist will not be again till 2028.