EXCLUSIVE: Mike Flanagan has added 11 longtime collaborators to the cast of his untitled new Exorcist movie, Deadline has learned: Rahul Kohli, Hamish Linklater, Gil Bellows, Carl Lumbly, Robert Longstreet, Matt Biedel, Samantha Sloyan, Kate Siegel, John Gallagher Jr., Benjamin Pajak, and Carla Gugino.
Matt Biedel, Samantha Sloyan, Kate Siegel, John Gallagher Jr., Benjamin Pajak, and Carla Gugino
Dana Bergwall/James DePietro/Sela Shiloni/Mara Rothman/Guido Venitucci/Sebastian Gutierrez
Over the course of his decades-long career, Flanagan has cultivated a company of actors that he turns to time and again, much in the same way Ryan Murphy has with his myriad television projects. Many of these 11 featured in Flanagan’s Netflix miniseries Midnight Mass and The Fall of the House of Usher, with assorted members also appearing in the likes of Oculus, Hush, Ouija: Origin of Evil, Gerald’s Game, The Haunting of Hill House, The Haunting of Bly Manor, The Midnight Club, and The Life of Chuck.
Character details for all new cast members are under wraps, as is the plot of the new Exorcist, which Universal is set to release in theaters on Friday, March 12, 2027.
What’s known about the film, shooting in New York City, is that it will tell an all-new story set in The Exorcist universe and is not a sequel to 2023’s The Exorcist: Believer. As previously announced, the cast also includes Scarlett Johansson, Jacobi Jupe, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Laurence Fishburne, John Leguizamo, Sasha Calle, and Diane Lane.
In addition to writing and directing, Flanagan is producing via his Red Room Pictures banner, alongside David Robinson for Morgan Creek Entertainment and Jason Blum for Blumhouse-Atomic Monster. Executive producers include Alexandra Magistro for Red Room Pictures and Ryan Turek for Blumhouse-Atomic Monster.
Kohli is represented by Artists First and McKuin Frankel Whitehead; Linklater by Gersh, Untitled Entertainment, and Sutton, Barth & Vennari; Bellows by Red Management, The Characters Talent Agency, and Mainstay Entertainment; Lumbly by Kass Management; Longstreet by Clear Talent Group and Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz; Biedel by AKA Talent Agency and Aligned Talent Group; Sloyan by SDB Partners, 11:11 Entertainment, and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman; Siegel by Paradigm, Elysian Heights, and VanderKloot Law; Gallagher Jr. by Gersh, and Yorn, Levine, Barnes; Pajak by The Carson Kolker Organization and Link Entertainment; and Gugino by Gersh, Untitled Entertainment, and Kopeikin Law.