Mike Flanagan hopes his remake of ‘The Exorcist’ might be “the scariest film of all time”.
The 46-year-old director – who’s helming the movie that can retell the story of the 1973 horror basic – is planning to pay tribute to the unique by making a film that can shock and terrify fashionable audiences the identical means the primary image did.
Talking on a panel throughout FanExpo Canada, he mentioned: “The unique ‘Exorcist’ is a formative movie for me. I’ve solely as soon as in my profession felt this sense of getting into the shadow of a monolith. I am already nauseous day by day about ‘The Exorcist’.
“When it got here out, it was the scariest film of all time at the moment.
“Fashionable audiences do not essentially join with the movie the identical means, so my mission for that is to attempt to make it the scariest film of the time. If I can do this, then I hope it’ll join with folks.”
The ‘Physician Sleep’ director had beforehand promised he can be main a “radical new take” on the long-lasting horror flick, which is slated to hit cinemas in 2026.
He mentioned in an announcement: “‘The Exorcist’ is likely one of the causes I grew to become a filmmaker, and it’s an honour to have the possibility to strive one thing recent, daring, and terrifying inside its universe.”
Flanagan is taking up the franchise from David Gordon Inexperienced after ‘The Exorcist: Believer’ underperformed on the field workplace and upset followers and critics, resulting in the filmmaker’s deliberate trilogy being scrapped.
Famed horror director John Carpenter – who had labored with Inexperienced on the ‘Halloween’ reboot trilogy – admitted he did not perceive how the filmmaker might “screw up” ‘Believer’.
Chatting with the Los Angeles Instances newspaper, he mentioned: “I like what David did when he made the three ‘Halloweens’. I beloved quantity two [‘Halloween Kills’]. [I] thought that was fabulous.
“I heard ‘The Exorcist’ actually didn’t minimize it. That may very well be a kick-a** film. I don’t perceive how one can screw that up.”