Mike Flanagan is satisfied he can “add” one thing new to ‘The Exorcist’.

The 46-year-old filmmaker is overseeing a reboot of the enduring 1973 horror film and fought “very aggressively” to accumulate the rights to the mission as he wished to radically reimagine the flick.

Mike instructed The Hollywood Reporter: “We aren’t making this simple on ourselves. However I’ve at all times felt that there is no level in going right into a franchise or right into a property that monolithic until there’s one thing new you may convey.

“I chased ‘The Exorcist’ very aggressively as a result of I used to be satisfied I had one thing I might add. This is a chance to do one thing that I consider has by no means been finished inside the franchise – one thing that honours what got here earlier than it however is not constructed on nostalgia.

“I actually simply noticed a possibility to make the scariest film I’ve ever made. I do know expectations are excessive. Nobody’s extra intimidated than I’m.”

Flanagan has loads of expertise within the horror style and mirrored on the daunting expertise of sitting beside celebrated creator Stephen King for a screening of his movie ‘Physician Sleep’, which served as a sequel to ‘The Shining’.

He recalled: “We introduced ‘Physician Sleep’ to display in Maine, and I sat subsequent to him in his hometown theatre in Bangor.

“I did not take a look at the display in any respect. I simply saved attempting to subtly gauge any response. If he nodded, I believed, ‘Nice, it is working!’ If he sighed or shifted, it was like, ‘Oh, he hates it!’ And that was a protracted film.

“Two and a half hours later, he leaned over and stated, ‘You probably did a fantastic job.’ I nearly died. Then he drove me to his home. We ate pizza and chatted in his library. He is the nicest.”