{"id":797653,"date":"2026-10-10T02:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T02:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/797653\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T02:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T02:48:10","slug":"the-exorcist-martyrs-trailer-starring-scarlett-johansson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/797653\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Exorcist: Martyrs’ Trailer Starring Scarlett Johansson"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThree years after The Exorcist<\/a> franchise spectacularly fell apart for Universal, the iconic horror property is set to return under writer-director Mike Flanagan with a new film starring Scarlett Johansson.<\/p>\n

\n\tBelow is the first teaser trailer for The Exorcist: Martyrs<\/a>, which is described as \u201ca radical new vision of the most terrifying title in the history of cinematic horror.\u201d In the film, Johansson stars as NYPD homicide detective Julie Miller, who investigates a murderer called Father Sunday (John Leguizamo), a priest (Chiwetel Ejiofor), and a new slew of killings that threaten Miller\u2019s 12-year-old son (Jacobi Jupe).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tFlanagan is the prolific horror writer-director who has tackled several Stephen King tales (Gerald\u2019s Game, Doctor Sleep, Carrie) and delivered several limited series hits for Netflix (Midnight Mass, The Fall of the House of Usher). <\/p>\n

\n\tThe film represents Universal trying to break the franchise\u2019s box office curse. <\/p>\n

\n\tIn 2021, the studio paid a whopping $400 million for the rights to the franchise \u2014 which was launched with William Friedkin\u2019s 1973 blockbuster \u2014 as part of a deal that included the budgets for a planned trio of feature films. The idea was to try to echo the playbook of David Gordon Green\u2019s hit revival of Halloween. But Green\u2019s 2023 film, The Exorcist: Believer, which returned original star Ellen Burstyn to the franchise, only made $137 million globally amid poor reviews<\/a>. The announced second film in the trilogy, The Exorcist: Deceiver, was scrapped in 2024.<\/p>\n

\n\tThen Universal turned to Flanagan to, in effect, reboot the reboot. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe Exorcist: Martyrs will be released in theaters March 12, 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three years after The Exorcist franchise spectacularly fell apart for Universal, the iconic horror property is set to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,38008,262276,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-797653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-the-exorcist","tag-the-exorcist-martyrs","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797653","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=797653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}