Mike Flanagan will be the next to try and make a decent Exorcist sequel
From Hill House to Georgetown, Mike Flanagan is stepping into the director's chair left vacant by David Gordon Green
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Less than a year after audiences and critics spit pea soup all over The Exorcist: Believer, Blumhouse is baptizing the whole property with fresh holy water. Netflix miniseries-maker Mike Flanagan is taking over the next Exorcist sequel as Blumhouse retools the beleaguered franchise that only produced one good sequel in 50 years. Promising a “radical new take” on the series for the second time in less than five years, Blumhouse will attempt to make good on the $400 million Universal spent to buy the rights to the property. Following the dismal returns of Believer, director David Gordon Green exited the sequel, entitled [sigh] Exorcist: Deciever—let’s hope they ditch the rhyming subtitles before we get to Exorcist: Belieber. This is all fine because Green is doing some of his best work on television and some of his worst in horror movies.