Like many horror fans, I am stoked that writer/director Mike Flanagan is set to make the next movie in the Exorcist franchise . He has regularly proven over the last decade to be one of the most gifted filmmakers working in the genre, and if he has a vision of what the next chapter of that legendary canon should be, you can consider my ticket already purchased. Like many Stephen King fans, however, I've also experienced some anxiety regarding that project.
After all, Flanagan has been officially developing his dream adaptation of King's The Dark Tower series since late 2022, and his plans to make a new Exorcist film feels like it could be a distraction from that goal. Today, we have good news from the man himself. The reality is that it's not a distraction, and his Exorcist project is instead a movie that is being made in parallel to The Dark Tower -related work that is on-going.
Flanagan is a guest on the most recent episode of the podcast Talking Scared , and when asked if his franchise feature for Universal was getting "in the way" of his big King adaptation ambitions, he explains, Oh, it's not in the way. They coexist very well. I think the trick with The Dark Tower is just it's still just takes an enormous amount of time to get going.
But we're further along than the last time we spoke. It seems to be moving on its own momentum. There's so much logistical, boring, legal stuff that we have to kind of machete our way through to get that thing moving.
But yeah, it has not a.