Following news dating back to 2024, Mike Flanagan (“The Fall of the House of Usher”, “Midnight Mass”) is still set to helm a new version of The Exorcist, now officially scheduled for release on March 12, 2027. Billed as a “radical redo,” the project will tell an original story, separate from both the classic 1973 film and the 2023 installment, The Exorcist: Believer.
Scarlett Johansson has signed on to star, joined by Jacobi Jupe (Hamnet).
The production is a collaboration between Blumhouse-Atomic Monster, Morgan Creek, and Red Room Pictures, with producers David Robinson, Jason Blum, and Flanagan leading the project. Alexandra Magistro and Ryan Turek serve as executive producers.
Universal had originally set the film for March 13, 2026, before the date was later removed from the schedule. The 2027 slot positions the film in a prime spring release window.
Rights to the franchise were acquired by NBCUniversal, Peacock, and Blumhouse from Morgan Creek in 2021, placing this new version under the same production partnership that produced the 2023 installment.
Whilst you’re waiting for the film, it’s more than worth picking up the recently released deluxe edition of William Peter Blatty’s 1971 novel The Exorcist, which features a glow-in-the-dark cover. Inspired by reported cases of demonic possession in the 1940s, the story follows eleven-year-old Regan MacNeil and her mother, Chris, as they face the events surrounding Regan’s possession. The novel became a bestseller and remains one of the most influential and widely discussed works in horror literature.
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