{"id":375279,"date":"2026-01-17T13:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T13:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/375279\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T13:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T13:50:07","slug":"mike-flanagans-the-exorcist-releasing-in-theaters-march-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/375279\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Flanagan&#8217;s &#8216;The Exorcist&#8217; Releasing in Theaters March 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Flanagan is bringing The Exorcist back to the big screen with a brand new take, and the film has been dated for theatrical release by Universal Pictures tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Flanagan\u2019s The Exorcist will release in theaters March 12, 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Scarlett Johansson and Jacobi Jupe are leading the new movie\u2019s cast.<\/p>\n<p>Flanagan \u2014 the horror master behind \u201cThe Haunting of Hill House,\u201d \u201cMidnight Mass,\u201c\u00a0and\u00a0Doctor Sleep \u2014 is writing &amp; directing the all-new story set in The Exorcist\u00a0universe.<\/p>\n<p>Plot details remain under wraps at this time, but we know that the upcoming film is not a remake of the 1973 horror classic or a sequel to 2023\u2019s The Exorcist: Believer.<\/p>\n<p>Flanagan is producing via his Red Room Pictures banner alongside Jason Blum for Blumhouse-Atomic Monster and David Robinson for Morgan Creek Entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an opportunity to do something that I believe has never been done within the franchise \u2014 something that honors what came before it but isn\u2019t built on nostalgia,\u201c\u00a0Flanagan\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/bloody-disgusting.com\/movie\/3830046\/mike-flanagan-aims-to-make-the-exorcist-his-scariest-movie-yet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">previously said<\/a>\u00a0of the project. \u201cI really just saw an opportunity to make the scariest movie I\u2019ve ever made. I know expectations are high. No one\u2019s more intimidated than I am.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mike Flanagan is bringing The Exorcist back to the big screen with a brand new take, and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,9713,2839,16232,38008,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-375279","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-mike-flanagan","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-scarlett-johansson","12":"tag-the-exorcist","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}