Custom image of Mike Flanagan against a background of Exorcist images.
The Big Picture It was recently reported that Mike Flanagan has been tapped to take over the Exorcist franchise, after a less-than-stellar performance from David Gordon Green's The Exorcist: Believer, the first film in a proposed trilogy. If this comes to fruition, Jason Blum is putting a lot of faith into Flanagan, believing that he can steer the ship to brighter horizons and write the script to a story that Blumhouse and Universal Pictures have already invested millions of dollars into.
Like Ouija, before it, The Exorcist: Believer made money — enough for it to be considered a success — but audiences were less than enthused about the return of Pazuzu. And for good reason. The film was boring, redundant, and very paint-by-numbers. The characters were likable enough , but there certainly weren't enough reasons to care about whether they were possessed or not, even if said possessions happened to two children this time, instead of just one.
Mike Flanagan's 'Ouija: Origin of Evil Is Better Than the Original The new incarnation of the Exorcist saga is intended to be a trilogy. Universal, the other production company working alongside Blumhouse, and the one who paid a reported $400 million for the rights to The Exorcist, would presumably at least like to break even after this venture. To do that, they need to make more money.
Mike Flanagan's Past Work Has Common Themes With The Exorcist Close In addition to the fact that Blumhouse has previously called on him to "fix" a film franchise, Mike Flanagan is the perfect writer/director to tell an Exorcist story, simply because his previous movies and television shows have shared many thematic elements with the horror franchise.
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