The news keeps getting better about this film we already know it’s a complete reimagining and now we’re hearing about more stars some of the names you’ll know. ..
Per Deadline, joining The Exorcist are 11 members of the so-called Flanafamily, including Rahul Kohli, Hamish Linklater, Gil Bellows, Carl Lumbly, Robert Longstreet, Matt Biedel, Samantha Sloyan, Kate Siegel, John Gallagher Jr., Benjamin Pajak, and Carla Gugino, most of whom have appeared across myriad Flanagan projects from Midnight Mass to The Life of Chuck.
Flanagan’s Exorcist is confirmed to be an all-new story set in The Exorcist universe and is not a sequel to David Gordon Green’s ill-fated The Exorcist:Believer from 2023. According to The Hollywood Reporter, while plot details for The Exorcist are being kept under the sheets, it is known that Scarlett Johansson plays a mother and Jupe her son. Leguizamo may be playing an antagonist. No word yet on who anyone else will be playing
You know the story, the Stephen King book and movie about the main Town swallowed by a strange mist. And if you saw the movie you remember the Terrible ending. Mike Flanagan is poised and ready to remake the film and push it in a new direction.
In a series of posts on BlueSky, he said that his adaptation is going to be different from what people already saw and he’s going to go his own way. Everywhere Mike Flanagan goes we actually follow.
“The Mist is going to be great. If there wasn’t an excellent answer to why, I wouldn’t do it.” He continues in a follow-up post, “I love Darabont’s film, and there’s zero point in remaking it. Which is why I’m going in a different direction.”
He wrote further, “This isn’t a retread. The differences start page 1.”
“And FWIW, I got the same ‘but why’ comments for Haunting of Hill House, Bly Manor, House of Usher, Carrie, The Exorcist, even Ouija: Origin of Evil,” Flanagan said. “Also got it for Life of Chuck. I’ve been lucky so far in my career to only take on projects I’m really excited about.”
Yet another Stephen King related movie from the amazing Mike Flanagan!
Flanagan will direct and write the screenplay, which is based off King’s 1980 novella of the same name.
There is no news yet on release date or cast , but Deadline confirms that Flanagan’s The Mist will indeed be another collaboration with Warner Bros. Pictures, and that Flanagan will produce through Red Room alongside Tyler Thompson and Spyglass’ Gary Barber and Chris Stone. Alexandra Magistro will also executive produce for Red Room.
Mike Flanagan Wraps Filming on the New Carrie Remake
For about nine months, people have been groaning that we don’t really need another remake of Carrie from the Stephen King series. But Mike Flanagan was chosen to do it — and the series will be releasing soon on Prime Video.
According to Flanagan’s own post, filming is officially wrapped. Listen, I’m in the same camp where remakes are getting really old. But I’m also in the camp where Mike Flanagan can touch a piece of horse manure and somehow turn it into something extravagant.
Now, Carrie was never horse manure — not by a long shot — but it’s also not one of my personal favorites. Still, with Flanagan at the helm, it has the promise to become something much more exquisite.
The blood will flow on another Mike Flanagan adaptation of a Stephen King story.. this time CARRIE..
The famed dircetor just announced in a new Instagram post that filming on the series has begun, featuring Summer H. Howell as the latest young actress to take on the mantle of Stephen King’s first protagonist.
While it isn’t much of an update, it created enough excitement with just one picture of the series’ day one slate, paired with the caption “and we’re off.”
Friday the 13th.. a secluded theater.. I saw The Life of Chuck, and I’ll be honest — I felt like it was a movie I needed to see as soon as possible. And I felt it was a movie I needed to see alone.
I had heard some early reviews. People called it a “tearjerker,” and they weren’t wrong. But more than that, it felt personal. Intimate. Not something I wanted to experience in a crowded theater with familiar faces nearby. So I went to an early showing, sparsely populated, quiet. It was just me — and, interestingly, a few other men, also sitting alone, also spread out like emotional islands in the dark.
From time to time, I noticed a glance — from one of them to me, or from me to someone else. Like we were silently wondering: Are you feeling this too? And I think we were. When the movie ended, none of us rushed out. We all sat there — through the credits — as the Newton Brothers played the final song. Not moving. Not speaking. Just absorbing.
I’m not saying I found the meaning of life in that moment… but maybe I did. Or maybe I will, when I think more about it.
What I can tell you is this: The Life of Chuck isn’t a movie you walk out of quickly, or fully understand in one sitting. There are no spoilers to avoid, no mystery to solve. In fact, the third act plays first, and the first act plays last. But somehow, the story still feels cohesive — circular, poetic, and profoundly human.
Mike Flanagan, adapting Stephen King’s short story, doesn’t just direct this — he masters it. He crafts something important. Something timeless. And I’m not sure we’ll recognize just how important it is until we’re further away from it, looking back.
I saw the movie on Friday the 13th, a day that felt, in the world, like a pressure cooker: talk of violent protests, military parades, and escalating conflict in the Middle East. It was all there — anxiety, dread, the sense of impending collapse. And yet this film gave me a brief but powerful timeout from all of that. Not a careless distraction, but a moment of reflection. I was actually scanning the news on my phone before the previews started, like many of us do, caught in the loop of doomscrolling.
But when the movie began, something shifted.
I was gripped. Not by suspense or horror, but by truth. By something deeper. I was drawn into Chuck’s world, his memories, his story. And at some point, I wasn’t just watching the movie — I was feeling it. I became Chuck, in some strange way. Maybe we all did. And when it ended, I felt dread and hope simultaneously — a rare pairing that only certain stories manage to unlock.
As the movie puts it: the waiting is the worst part.
I don’t think this film will fade with time. I think it will grow — in meaning, in relevance, in emotional weight. And I think I’ll always be glad I saw it alone. I needed those several minutes of credits to let my eyes stop watering. I needed my brain to find the bravery to stand up and leave. I think the other men in the theater did too — we all exited quietly, respectfully, giving each other the space to feel without judgment.
And here’s how I know The Life of Chuck worked:
The first thing I wanted to do after leaving the theater… was dance ..
Mike Flanagan (Doctor Sleep, Midnight Mass) has made it official: he and Trevor Macy’s Intrepid Pictures are developing a TV show based on Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series..
But will it appear on Netflix or Amazon?
Platform besides, it promises to be another amazing horror story from Flanagan coming..
Nothing but good entertainment from Flanagan on a constant basis. The man is a genius ..
