Deadline stated that Mike Flanaganresponsible for Doctor Sleep and horror series like The Haunting of Hill House It is Midnight Massand is in negotiations to direct the new The Exorcist to the Blumhouse and the Universal Pictures.
Neither of them, however, wanted to comment on the matter.
After receiving harsh criticism from publications and fans, and failing at the box office, The Exorcist: The Devotee marked the end of the partnership Blumhouse It is David Gordon Green. The director left the sequel The Exorcist: Deceiver (The Exorcist: The Deceiver, in free translation), which no longer has a release date.
The search for a new director has been ongoing since then and Green is dedicating himself to another project; The Nutcrackersstarring Ben Stiller.
With a lukewarm result at the international box office and several negative reviews (including ours), The Exorcist: The Devotee was a disappointing start to the US$400 million investment made by Universal Pictures to obtain franchise rights.
In The Exorcist: The Devotee, Ellen Burstyin returns to the role of Chris MacNeil, mother of Regan, the possessed girl in the original Exorcist William Friedkinthe horror classic released in 1973. Leslie Odom Jr.recently seen in Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, stars in the story.
In the plot, two girls are possessed after disappearing by three in the woods of a small town in Georgia, in the United States. One is the daughter of an atheist, and the other comes from a Christian family. Both sides need to work together to find a way to free them, and Chris MacNeil returns with possible answers.
Just as happened with the Halloween from Blumhouse,The Exorcist: The Devotee is a continuation of the first film in the franchise, ignoring the sequels released later or the FOX series, and is the first chapter of a new trilogy that continues with The Exorcist: Deceiver. free).
