{"id":274224,"date":"2026-02-04T21:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T21:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/274224\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T21:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T21:00:07","slug":"chiwetel-ejiofor-joins-scarlett-johansson-in-new-exorcist-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/274224\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiwetel Ejiofor Joins Scarlett Johansson in New Exorcist movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/chiwetel-ejiofor\/\" id=\"auto-tag_chiwetel-ejiofor_1\" data-tag=\"chiwetel-ejiofor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chiwetel Ejiofor<\/a> is the latest actor to keep the faith, joining the growing cast of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/exorcist\/\" id=\"auto-tag_exorcist_1\" data-tag=\"exorcist\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Exorcist<\/a>, Blumhouse-Atomic Monster and Morgan Creek Entertainment\u2019s new take on the horror classic.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>The move reunites Ejiofor with Mike Flanagan, who has promised a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/the-exorcist-trilogy-canceled-mike-flanagan-new-movie-1235608632\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fresh and bold<\/a>\u201d take on the material, and who directed the actor in The Life of Chuck, the adaptation of a Stephen King story which won the People\u2019s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2024.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Flanagan wrote the script and is directing and producing the new feature that is not a remake nor a sequel but set in the\u00a0Exorcist\u00a0\u201cuniverse.\u201d Ejiofor joins Scarlett Johansson, Jacobi Jupe, and Diane Lane in the roll call.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Sources say the actor will be playing an ex-con turned priest. (Johansson is playing Jupe\u2019s mother.)<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>The original\u00a0Exorcist, based on the novel by William Peter Blatty and directed by William Friedkin, focused on the demonic possession of a young girl and the priests that try to save her. The film was nominated for 10 Oscars. The various follow-ups mostly featured stories centered on the girl (now grown-up), the backstories of the priests or other demonic cases detectives from the first movie investigated.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Universal Pictures will release the new film theatrically and has set a March 12, 2027 release date. The project is due to shoot in New York City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tExorcist is being produced by Blumhouse-Atomic Monster, Morgan Creek Entertainment and Flanagan, who is operating via his Red Room Pictures banner.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>David Robinson produces for Morgan Creek Entertainment. Jason Blum and Ryan Turek serve as producer and executive producer, respectively, for Blumhouse-Atomic Monster. Alexandra Magistro will also executive produce for Red Room Pictures.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Ejiofor earned an Oscar nomination as well as a BAFTA Award performance as Solomon Northup in 12 Years a Slave. A vet whose credits range from Children of Men and Love Actually to Marvel\u2019s Doctor Strange movies, he was recently seen in Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy and Netflix\u2019s The Old Guard 2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tHe is repped by Ejiofor is Markham, Froggatt and Irwin and Hirsch Wallerstein.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chiwetel Ejiofor is the latest actor to keep the faith, joining the growing cast of The Exorcist, Blumhouse-Atomic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[29622,146,85,46,397,70862],"class_list":{"0":"post-274224","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-chiwetel-ejiofor","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-the-exorcist"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}