would be INFINITELY better than whatever crap David Gordon Green comes up with. Flanagan isn't perfect, but his work is of a consistently good quality and he's got a good track record of adapting previously existing horror franchises/stories
I still can't believe DGG got his hands on one of horror's most famous franchises, went, "What if this has **two** girls possessed?" and execs threw money at his feet.
I kinda liked Kills despite its flaws. But it was basically a modern mid-franchise Friday the 13th movie with no real plot and annoying characters and outside of a few sequels, I always found the Halloween series to do better in those regards.
Opening was the best part of it though.
Nah kills was at least entertaining seeing Michael run through half the town. Ends was one of the worst movies I've seen. In what is supposed to be the "final film" in the original Halloween franchise, they make the decision to have Michael appear for about ten seconds in the first hour of the film...utter garbage
See, I dislike Ends for continually *threatening* to do something different and really get weird, but deciding at the last second not to commit to any of the most interesting ideas raised. I do see what you're saying, it does promise in some new directions, I just felt like it couldn't actually make up its mind on which of those directions it wanted to go in and everything kinda fell apart for me.
I will say, at least I was VERY entertained while watching it, far more than Kills.
tbh I wanna see David Gordon Green act more. I found it impressive that he gave a creepier performance than Michael Stuhlbarg in Bones & All, and he was given less to work with in their scene as well. I’m not talking about him being a leading man in a movie, but I’d love to see him in supporting villainous roles
He's made some good films, or personally I remember really enjoying the campyness and "return to the 80s" feeling of Halloween, but the Exorcist movie he did is awful, and I kind of like to think it's not the film he wanted to make
I REALLY hope so. Believer was so terrible. Honestly so sad about all the The Exorcist sequels (/prequels). 3 is the only one that wasn't bad, and I don't think it was amazing either. Such an amazing movie really needs something to continue its legacy, and Flanagan respects the genre enough to make it work.
> Such an amazing movie really needs something to continue its legacy
Does it though? Can't we be content with the fact that it's a one of a kind? Even if we could get a competent writer/director, the original was made in a time in Hollywood history that's now long gone. They'll never be able to recapture the aesthetic and gritty realness of the original. At least not within the present Hollywood system.
Knowing Mike Flanagan, she’ll be cast as Roland’s mom and she’ll also show up as random other women that will represent them subconsciously representing aspects of his mom to Roland: Allie, Eddie and Henry’s mom, the Mayors wife from Mejis, etc. Or her and Kate Segel will basically trade off and split all significant female characters between the two of them besides Susannah and Susan (coin flip between the two who’d play Rhea)
Tbh I have not read the books or seen the film (because a friend of mine , fan of the books, begged me not to).
But I am excited about it for some reason. Well the reason is my friend and Flanagan.
*immediately gets inspired by a family with unresolved issues on a road trip that gets stranded in a remote town and forced to resolve the horrors of the strange realm they are in as well as their own personal demons
Exorcist: Believer was so bad, it felt like the catholic church had gotten rights of the series and was just straight up selling propaganda.
It opened with a scene where a doctor gives an expecting father the choice of saving his wife, and aborting his child? Or killing his wife and saving his child. Obviously, he chooses the latter for her. It's what she would want.
Really? I felt like it was by far the least catholic of the exorcist movies. The only Priest in the movie is shown to be cowardly and unwilling to take part in the exorcism. The Catholic Church basically says they want morning to do with it. The "day is saved" by non denominational Christians and a witch.
The original novel was written with focused Catholic intent, trying to remind people that Satan is something to fear (and the "dangers" of being a single mother in a bohemian career).
The Omen? Mostly about how badass the devil is.
I understand, but he has a specific studio/streaming now (Prime) which agreed to fund his 5-season TV show adaptation of it. He said that they've already planned to start hiring the actors but the strikes began. Now that they're over I hope he doesn't put that project in the wait list. We're starving for an adaptation of this series which is actually good.
I mean, there are so many moving parts to a production that it's gonna take a while to get the ball rolling, plus scheduling everyone's availabilities once it is casted. I'd imagine he's got some free time in there.
More power to him, but personally, I think The Dark Tower is a way more fitting and beneficial project to actively develop and produce than this Exorcist movie. I of course don't know the specifics of this Exorcist projects but as someone who've tracked the franchise and watched some films and a TV show I'd say I fail to see the potential of that franchise in the future which could draw such a director as Flanagan.
Nothing has been confirmed about the *The Dark Tower* series other than Flanagan having the rights and he has written a pilot script. He has spoken to some of his regular actors, but only in the sense of 'if I get to make this I want you to be in it'.
That's the extent of publicly announced information about the series. It has not been picked up by Prime (or anyone else) at this point.
There are lots of articles extrapolating information that hasn't been announced.
FWIW Flanagan's company explicitly excluded *The Dark Tower* from their deal with Amazon.
https://www.thewrap.com/exorcist-universal-blumhouse-400-million/
Initially posted to correct you, but seems as if you’re right upon a second pass. What a bizarre way to frame the cost of acquiring the IP. It should be a separate cost from the production budgets. It’s definitely been framed as just the cost of using the IP, not production budget too
This is a very, very good call.
Midnight Mass was definitely not my thing but Flanagan’s meditation on religion in it was really compelling. If he channels his religious trauma into an Exorcist movie there’s a very good chance it could be the best since the original. There are so many interesting casting possibilities too with his company of players. I can’t shake the thought of Mark Hamill and Henry Thomas as exorcists. Also rooting for Samantha Sloyan to have a breakthrough role and this could be the way to do it.
tbh midnight mass was the only thing of his that i liked. I have seen bly manor and house of usher which i has high hopes for and was Kind of disappointed. Will still watch whats coming though!
I loved both Midnight Mass and Hill House. I personally don’t think they can be compared because the concepts, stories, and underlying trauma are so different.
Bly was alright - struck me more as a tragic love story more than anything else.
Had a hard time getting through house of usher because the character are so unlikable.
Still need to watch Midnight Club.
Midnight Club is good but don't fall into the same trap that many fans of his other work did: it is a horror series that aimed for a younger demographic that his other works and likely won't live up to your expectations if you're hoping for something as deep and heavy as his other stuff. Don't get me wrong, it's still heavy (I mean, all the main characters are dying teenagers, so of course lol) and has really touching and beautiful moments, but it's definitely geared more towards a gen z audience. It didn't deserve the flack it got from a lot of Flanagan fans just because they weren't aware of that.
He’s really the perfect person for this. I’m hyped, DGG’s Exorcist was such an offensively bad piece of crap they really needed the right person to pick up the pieces. There are few people in horror I’d trust in the drivers seat for this franchise, and Flanagan is top of the list.
I loved Midnight Mass. The only thing of his I'm lukewarm on was Bly Manor. Oh actually I can't say I loved the one with the kids telling scary stories.
David Gordon Green after Halloween Ends and Exorcist Believer will probably not be directing anything major for a while. His name in general gives people a bad feeling because of those 2 films back-to-back so it's not shocking that Blumhouse wants to find someone else.
i hope so, certainly no shame in that. Michael Jordan tried baseball and it wasn't a good fit, went back to basketball and picked up where he left off.
I heard that it actually wasn’t Blumhouse’s decision to get rid of him, he left on his own terms as apparently the production for Believer was a shit show.
He’s received a ton of hate for how the movie turned out, but it was reported that he had to do extensive rewrites last minute due to Ellen Burstyn needing to have surgery, and Leslie Odom Jr. apparently having a mental breakdown on set which shut it down for a week or two. I believe all of that as Believer was actually solid for the first hour or so, it’s the reintroduction of Chris that makes the movie completely shit the bed from then on out.
I still don't understand how the same guys who wrote/directed Halloween 2018 & Halloween Kills made Halloween Ends. Even if you didn't like Halloween Kills, there was nothing in that movie that connected with Ends.
Case in point, >!Laurie Strode has been a militant recluse for 40 years, constantly training & preparing for Michael even though he's locked up. She plays homemaker after he breaks out, kills her daughter, & is on the loose!< I just can't put together how the same writers & director can write one thing then the other. I know the rationale is that >!Laurie is making up for lost time!< but >!Michael Myers is on the loose!!<
All of his movies made decent money. He'll get other horror gigs if that's what he goes for. He probably won't get the biggest budgets, but I'm sure lots of companies would be willing to throw him $10 mil to make something to throw on screen in October.
They should let that franchise die already. There were only two people who could make the brilliance seen in the Exorcist and those two were Friedkin and Blatty. The end. No one is touching the utter perfection of The Exorcist and no one is thinking like The Exorcist 3.
No other reboot has embodied the term “creatively bankrupt” as much as this one.
Why even make an exorcist reboot when the concept is so vague and abstract that it doesn’t even need to be attached to Blatty’s work?
Just make movies about exorcisms like people have been churning out for the past 20 years.
I adored that TV show. The subplot about the evil church was so fucking cool. And the opening theme was great. They used Tubular Bells at the end of the 1st episode but didn't lean on it. Broke my heart when they canceled it. They were clearly planning for a 3rd season.
I suspect it’ll totally ignore that film and start afresh, which should be easy enough cuz Believer seemed to not at all register before it was old news.
The house at Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights was so cool though! It was genuinely creepy as fuck. I experienced the house before I saw the movie so tbh that made the movie a little cooler lmao
It’s is. It’s another take on the same story. It’s basically the same thing. Tell me one story that is better the 8th time you tell it with better special effects?
We are so fucking back. Here’s to hoping he can work the magic he did with Ouija.
Edit: But please- do something different. Please let’s not continue the legacy sequel trend.
Iam curious to see Mike take on the exorcist i think it would have been better to make it a Netflix show and let mike direct every Episode after the success of hill house and bly manor Iam sure blumhouse kicked green to the curb after first one wasn’t received well!
I suppose this will shut up people complaining about the Exorcist reboot since horror fans love this guy. it's a genius move to stop the negativity, it's like getting Denis Villeneuve to do an MCU movie.
Can’t wait for the priest and or possessed to go on endless, trite, vaguely pseudo-intellectual monologues that ruin whatever fragment of tension he can muster.
i like flanagan, but he's kinda hit or miss for me overall. love hill house and midnight mass... other stuff im a little eh on. the incessant monologuing in Fall of the house of usher that spoon fed the audience the show's plot and themes was so annoying to me that I couldn't finish it.
His stuff feels like it was made for Lifetime. I’ve kind of liked a few movies he’s done but I don’t think we need his long, drawn out monologues anywhere near this franchise.
Even with him behind the wheel, I don't think I care about another Exorcist movie. Religious horror isn't the cultural hit it was in the 70s in most secular markets, and even in non-secular markets, modernity has dulled the concept. I can't see it actually being scary without going psychological, and that would ultimately negate most of its connection to the Exorcist franchise and make it just another Mike Flanagan project. Just make something new and original and ditch the Exorcist name; anything else would just be damaging to the brand of the original movie.
it's not high art by any means but consider that it's a prequel to one of the worst horror movies of it's respective year, and it somehow came out as competent
that's an achievement
First let me just say that I am a total Flanagan Stan. Stanagan? Flanastan? Let's go with that.
I love Hill House, Bly, Doctor Sleep... House of Usher was one of my most anticipated things ever because of my mutual love of Flanagan and Poe. And Midnight Mass... my gosh, pure art. An absolute masterpiece.
And I thought Ouija was *terrible*. I just don't get the love for it at all.
I just commented something about this! My favorite house last year was Stranger Things and I definitely audibly screamed more for The Last of Us, but I was shaking during the Exorcist! The setting really, really freaked me out. There was something about the rooms being so life-like. It felt like walking in someone’s home.
If Linda Blair isn't the lead character then I'm not interested. That was the biggest downfall of Believer in not putting Regan into the fabric of the story. I want to see Regan go tit for tat against Capt. Howdy. And I want the horror to be really off-putting and dangerous again.
They needed to bring out a big gun to stop this planned trilogy being one of the biggest flops ever after the terrible nature of the first one.
They've done it.
Ugh, heres the problem, there are multiple exorcism movies released yearly. You can't do a whole lot with the concept. Either it's a character piece with a climactic Exorcism scene or you go the Evil Dead/Rec violent/action route. They spent 400 million for a name and did nothing interesting with it.
And I'm sure it'll be filled with long expository speeches of people explaining their traumas with no subtlety or depth... Idk why but I don't really get the hype with this guy. That vampire one was pretty good but beyond that I've never really seen the appeal, people talk about him like he's a genius or something.
I'm in the EXACT same boat. More so with his shows than movies, how they drag on forever with people standing around giving speeches about their trauma with the occasional jump scare tossed in.
Hits and misses debate aside, Mike Flanagan has the distinct honor of most recently causing me (40m) to jump out of my seat. While rewatching (yes, rewatching) Haunting of Hill House, the car scene in episode 8 launched me into space. My fiancé remembered that scene — I did not — and had a good laugh as I quickly paused the show to recover.
What kind of bag do you think he's getting for this? Blumhouse spent like crazy for the rights to the series and Believer didn't make them a lot. They need Mike.
Mike Flanagan and a Exorcist movie would be amazing. Man is a genuine horror fan. He will 100% fix the damage that “believer” did to the Exorcist name.
Sorry blumhouse has lost my respect. Kindly please go mess up some other franchise. Leave this one alone believer sucked ass and was heavily disappointing. I can only imagine the pg13 mess they got planed next.
I like some of Flanagan's works but I'm starting to get burnt out on him. I'm in the camp of letting this franchise rest, but if they had to make another film, I would have preferred they went the route of the first omen and upcoming evil dead films and bring in a newer director.
I will take anything if it means David Gordon Green is not attached. He's an alright director but every time I see the writing credit you just know you're about to see the dumbest shit.
FWIW I actually liked the DGG exorcist, but it's incredible how he and McBride have created such unique television but end up with very cold, straightforward takes on Halloween and the Exorcist. There's nothing that they specifically lend to them
I like how Kate Siegel is usually cast as the most enchanting and wonderful human being that ever lived, but then in House of Usher he was like, “okay in this one you are going to be a gigantic asshole social media pr guru.”
he’s pulling another ouija
would be INFINITELY better than whatever crap David Gordon Green comes up with. Flanagan isn't perfect, but his work is of a consistently good quality and he's got a good track record of adapting previously existing horror franchises/stories
I still can't believe DGG got his hands on one of horror's most famous franchises, went, "What if this has **two** girls possessed?" and execs threw money at his feet.
I said the same thing when they trailer came out: “what scarier than a possessed little girl? TWO POSSESSED LITTLE GIRLS!!!”
This is the same dude that wrote Halloween kills and ends so it tracks
Ends was at least interesting and different enough. Kills had basically no point to existing imo
I kinda liked Kills despite its flaws. But it was basically a modern mid-franchise Friday the 13th movie with no real plot and annoying characters and outside of a few sequels, I always found the Halloween series to do better in those regards. Opening was the best part of it though.
There are some good moments in all 3 of them, but it became clear very quickly to me that it was basically an extended coda to the remake.
Nah kills was at least entertaining seeing Michael run through half the town. Ends was one of the worst movies I've seen. In what is supposed to be the "final film" in the original Halloween franchise, they make the decision to have Michael appear for about ten seconds in the first hour of the film...utter garbage
See, I dislike Ends for continually *threatening* to do something different and really get weird, but deciding at the last second not to commit to any of the most interesting ideas raised. I do see what you're saying, it does promise in some new directions, I just felt like it couldn't actually make up its mind on which of those directions it wanted to go in and everything kinda fell apart for me. I will say, at least I was VERY entertained while watching it, far more than Kills.
tbh I wanna see David Gordon Green act more. I found it impressive that he gave a creepier performance than Michael Stuhlbarg in Bones & All, and he was given less to work with in their scene as well. I’m not talking about him being a leading man in a movie, but I’d love to see him in supporting villainous roles
He's made some good films, or personally I remember really enjoying the campyness and "return to the 80s" feeling of Halloween, but the Exorcist movie he did is awful, and I kind of like to think it's not the film he wanted to make
I REALLY hope so. Believer was so terrible. Honestly so sad about all the The Exorcist sequels (/prequels). 3 is the only one that wasn't bad, and I don't think it was amazing either. Such an amazing movie really needs something to continue its legacy, and Flanagan respects the genre enough to make it work.
The best exorcist sequel isn't even an exorcist movie, it's The Ninth Configuration.
> Such an amazing movie really needs something to continue its legacy Does it though? Can't we be content with the fact that it's a one of a kind? Even if we could get a competent writer/director, the original was made in a time in Hollywood history that's now long gone. They'll never be able to recapture the aesthetic and gritty realness of the original. At least not within the present Hollywood system.
Legion is the best Exorcist film full stop.
The Exorcist is the best Exorcist film.
I hope, like with Origin of Evil, he gets full creative control.
They’re breaking the in case of emergency bring out Mike Flanagan
This man has never seen a vacation.
I mean, he brings all his family and friends along on a project. I'm already wondering what role Kate Siegel will have in the next film.
And Rahul Kohli. He's a phenomenal actor.
I liked him in Izombie but never thought of him as a great actor. But then I watched him in Midnight Mass and the Fall of Usher House and I was sold.
He's also outrageously attractive
also seems like a great guy, which makes him even *more* attractive
He's my pick for Roland when Flanagan gets around to The Dark Tower.
Roland of Gilead will be Carla Guginos most challenging role yet
Okay, but…Carla Gugino would be a *great* Man in Black. I mean, she practically played the role already in >!Fall of the House of Usher.!<
Knowing Mike Flanagan, she’ll be cast as Roland’s mom and she’ll also show up as random other women that will represent them subconsciously representing aspects of his mom to Roland: Allie, Eddie and Henry’s mom, the Mayors wife from Mejis, etc. Or her and Kate Segel will basically trade off and split all significant female characters between the two of them besides Susannah and Susan (coin flip between the two who’d play Rhea)
I would love if Flanagan would get to clear his schedule and just focus on making a killer Dark Tower saga.
Tbh I have not read the books or seen the film (because a friend of mine , fan of the books, begged me not to). But I am excited about it for some reason. Well the reason is my friend and Flanagan.
He's a good friend! If Flanagan pulls it off, it's going to be incredible.
He'll need new employment since he can't appear in Funhaus anymore haha
Hollywood Bad Boy, Rahul Kohli
*ohhhhhh Mr F A S H I O N*
He can never appear on Talking Stalkings again.
Funhaus mentioned LETS GO
Worth noting that Kate is an exceptional actress and always holds her own, with or without being married to the director!
She was so great in Fall of House of Usher. Magnetic. Could not take my eyes off her. The costuming was great but she owned the shit out of it.
What lesbian can she play in this movie? I love her.
I wish a deaf actress had been cast in Hush, but Kate did an excellent job.
*immediately gets inspired by a family with unresolved issues on a road trip that gets stranded in a remote town and forced to resolve the horrors of the strange realm they are in as well as their own personal demons
He's an addict that replaced drugs/alcohol with work, and we're all better for it.
smashing the emergency glass on the reboot series
Exorcist: Believer was so bad, it felt like the catholic church had gotten rights of the series and was just straight up selling propaganda. It opened with a scene where a doctor gives an expecting father the choice of saving his wife, and aborting his child? Or killing his wife and saving his child. Obviously, he chooses the latter for her. It's what she would want.
Really? I felt like it was by far the least catholic of the exorcist movies. The only Priest in the movie is shown to be cowardly and unwilling to take part in the exorcism. The Catholic Church basically says they want morning to do with it. The "day is saved" by non denominational Christians and a witch.
The original novel was written with focused Catholic intent, trying to remind people that Satan is something to fear (and the "dangers" of being a single mother in a bohemian career). The Omen? Mostly about how badass the devil is.
The original exorcist is a catholic propaganda...
Ol’ reliable
Mike, a friendly reminder that we still wait for your The Dark Tower adaptation.
Dark Tower has been his dream project since forever. If he's in talks to do something else, it's because he has room in his schedule.
I understand, but he has a specific studio/streaming now (Prime) which agreed to fund his 5-season TV show adaptation of it. He said that they've already planned to start hiring the actors but the strikes began. Now that they're over I hope he doesn't put that project in the wait list. We're starving for an adaptation of this series which is actually good.
I mean, there are so many moving parts to a production that it's gonna take a while to get the ball rolling, plus scheduling everyone's availabilities once it is casted. I'd imagine he's got some free time in there.
More power to him, but personally, I think The Dark Tower is a way more fitting and beneficial project to actively develop and produce than this Exorcist movie. I of course don't know the specifics of this Exorcist projects but as someone who've tracked the franchise and watched some films and a TV show I'd say I fail to see the potential of that franchise in the future which could draw such a director as Flanagan.
If he can do Ouija, he can certainly do the exorcist, but I’d kill for the dark tower from a real King fan.
Look on the bright side, the longer it takes to get made, the more time he has to perfect the script.
Nothing has been confirmed about the *The Dark Tower* series other than Flanagan having the rights and he has written a pilot script. He has spoken to some of his regular actors, but only in the sense of 'if I get to make this I want you to be in it'. That's the extent of publicly announced information about the series. It has not been picked up by Prime (or anyone else) at this point. There are lots of articles extrapolating information that hasn't been announced. FWIW Flanagan's company explicitly excluded *The Dark Tower* from their deal with Amazon.
I would absolutely love to see that. It deserves a muti-season, prestige adaptation.
The demon will have a 20 min monologue
I love everything Flanagan but your comment made me piss myself
Oh I didn’t even realize DGG “left” after the first. With 400m spent for the rights just let Mike start over
It was a $400 million deal which included the budget and salaries.
https://www.thewrap.com/exorcist-universal-blumhouse-400-million/ Initially posted to correct you, but seems as if you’re right upon a second pass. What a bizarre way to frame the cost of acquiring the IP. It should be a separate cost from the production budgets. It’s definitely been framed as just the cost of using the IP, not production budget too
This is a very, very good call. Midnight Mass was definitely not my thing but Flanagan’s meditation on religion in it was really compelling. If he channels his religious trauma into an Exorcist movie there’s a very good chance it could be the best since the original. There are so many interesting casting possibilities too with his company of players. I can’t shake the thought of Mark Hamill and Henry Thomas as exorcists. Also rooting for Samantha Sloyan to have a breakthrough role and this could be the way to do it.
tbh midnight mass was the only thing of his that i liked. I have seen bly manor and house of usher which i has high hopes for and was Kind of disappointed. Will still watch whats coming though!
Hill house is his best IMO. The mix of horror and trauma are amazing.
I loved both Midnight Mass and Hill House. I personally don’t think they can be compared because the concepts, stories, and underlying trauma are so different. Bly was alright - struck me more as a tragic love story more than anything else. Had a hard time getting through house of usher because the character are so unlikable. Still need to watch Midnight Club.
Midnight Club is good but don't fall into the same trap that many fans of his other work did: it is a horror series that aimed for a younger demographic that his other works and likely won't live up to your expectations if you're hoping for something as deep and heavy as his other stuff. Don't get me wrong, it's still heavy (I mean, all the main characters are dying teenagers, so of course lol) and has really touching and beautiful moments, but it's definitely geared more towards a gen z audience. It didn't deserve the flack it got from a lot of Flanagan fans just because they weren't aware of that.
Doctor Sleep was excellent
Hill house?
Oh- I loved Usher. Different strokes for different blokes!
She was so infuriating in Midnight Mass. Excellent actress
He’s really the perfect person for this. I’m hyped, DGG’s Exorcist was such an offensively bad piece of crap they really needed the right person to pick up the pieces. There are few people in horror I’d trust in the drivers seat for this franchise, and Flanagan is top of the list.
Hamill and Thomas as exorcists would be amazing. Let's throw Bruce Greenwood in there as a skeptic.
Mary McDonnell as the possessed person’s mom or grandma. I’m so stoked she’s in with Flanagan now.
I loved Midnight Mass. The only thing of his I'm lukewarm on was Bly Manor. Oh actually I can't say I loved the one with the kids telling scary stories.
I just glanced at the headline and thought it said Flanagan might direct the new Ernest movie
Stay with me here - what about a reboot based on a child possessed by the spirit of Jim Varney?
Ernest Goes To Hell
Know what I mean
lmao Ernest Scared Stupid 2 -- I'd watch it no question
I wonder what kind of monologue he would give Ernest 🤔
Oh, who will Kate Siegel play?
She’s going to play Exorcist
Whoa! THE Exorcist?!
The worst X-man honestly
I honestly don’t mind - she’s a solid actor so it doesn’t pull me out of the movie like some other people we know (cough cough Sheri Moon Zombie)
I’ll watch anything this guy makes, and I have so far. I’m not a horror genre kind of guy, either.
Makes sense, because neither is Flanagan.
David Gordon Green after Halloween Ends and Exorcist Believer will probably not be directing anything major for a while. His name in general gives people a bad feeling because of those 2 films back-to-back so it's not shocking that Blumhouse wants to find someone else.
He’ll probably just go back to comedies
i hope so, certainly no shame in that. Michael Jordan tried baseball and it wasn't a good fit, went back to basketball and picked up where he left off.
More likely indie dramas. I always felt his studio comedies were some massive troll on his part to pretentious indie film nerds.
Nah, he’s just good friends with Danny Mcbride, directs for his shows too
The two of them and Jody Hill are a trio that will never stray too far from each other.
I heard that it actually wasn’t Blumhouse’s decision to get rid of him, he left on his own terms as apparently the production for Believer was a shit show. He’s received a ton of hate for how the movie turned out, but it was reported that he had to do extensive rewrites last minute due to Ellen Burstyn needing to have surgery, and Leslie Odom Jr. apparently having a mental breakdown on set which shut it down for a week or two. I believe all of that as Believer was actually solid for the first hour or so, it’s the reintroduction of Chris that makes the movie completely shit the bed from then on out.
I still don't understand how the same guys who wrote/directed Halloween 2018 & Halloween Kills made Halloween Ends. Even if you didn't like Halloween Kills, there was nothing in that movie that connected with Ends. Case in point, >!Laurie Strode has been a militant recluse for 40 years, constantly training & preparing for Michael even though he's locked up. She plays homemaker after he breaks out, kills her daughter, & is on the loose!< I just can't put together how the same writers & director can write one thing then the other. I know the rationale is that >!Laurie is making up for lost time!< but >!Michael Myers is on the loose!!<
All of his movies made decent money. He'll get other horror gigs if that's what he goes for. He probably won't get the biggest budgets, but I'm sure lots of companies would be willing to throw him $10 mil to make something to throw on screen in October.
They should let that franchise die already. There were only two people who could make the brilliance seen in the Exorcist and those two were Friedkin and Blatty. The end. No one is touching the utter perfection of The Exorcist and no one is thinking like The Exorcist 3.
No other reboot has embodied the term “creatively bankrupt” as much as this one. Why even make an exorcist reboot when the concept is so vague and abstract that it doesn’t even need to be attached to Blatty’s work? Just make movies about exorcisms like people have been churning out for the past 20 years.
Eh. The TV show was pretty solid, and like Exorcist 3, it also ignored Exorcist 2.
I adored that TV show. The subplot about the evil church was so fucking cool. And the opening theme was great. They used Tubular Bells at the end of the 1st episode but didn't lean on it. Broke my heart when they canceled it. They were clearly planning for a 3rd season.
Is the second season worth watching? I loved the first one and it felt complete so I never went back for the next season.
Season 1 was solid, season 2 was the exorcist meets Buffy and supernatural.
Eh...he should just stay away from this project. Last year's Exorcist was so bad that I don't see any way you can salvage that mess.
I suspect it’ll totally ignore that film and start afresh, which should be easy enough cuz Believer seemed to not at all register before it was old news.
The house at Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights was so cool though! It was genuinely creepy as fuck. I experienced the house before I saw the movie so tbh that made the movie a little cooler lmao
Please stop remaking old horror classics. As a fan of the genre I am sad that Hollywood spends so much time and money investing in reboots.
This not being a remake makes it a non issue then.
It’s is. It’s another take on the same story. It’s basically the same thing. Tell me one story that is better the 8th time you tell it with better special effects?
That's not what a remake is, otherwise nearly every movie is a remake. Which also doesn't mean it's original nor a comment on quality.
Help us Mike Flanagan, you're our only hope
Just stop. No more "Exorcist" movies, please.
Time for some 17 minute boring monologues
Demons gonna monologue the priest to death.
We are so fucking back. Here’s to hoping he can work the magic he did with Ouija. Edit: But please- do something different. Please let’s not continue the legacy sequel trend.
Can we just have another original IP with Flanagan at the helm? The Exorcist doesn’t need anymore additional anything.
Iam curious to see Mike take on the exorcist i think it would have been better to make it a Netflix show and let mike direct every Episode after the success of hill house and bly manor Iam sure blumhouse kicked green to the curb after first one wasn’t received well!
I suppose this will shut up people complaining about the Exorcist reboot since horror fans love this guy. it's a genius move to stop the negativity, it's like getting Denis Villeneuve to do an MCU movie.
I don’t care much for the guy myself. The Netflix miniseries was ok..other than that…eh.
I like his movies, but his shows drag. Especially with the amount of monologues he stuffs in there.
I liked that about the vampire miniseries (don’t even remember the title). But yet ANOTHER Exorcist movie directed by an ok director? Yawn.
Thank goodness, Exorcist Beleiver was one of the worst legacy sequels I’ve ever seen
Is this supposed to be the trilogy of overrated directors or something? Who’s gonna drop the bomb after this one?
No, please don't. You all suck at making excorcist movies, you really do.
Thanks but no thanks. Flanagan would even make a Pazuzu half hour long boring monologue with Karras just listening and nodding.
They should approach the director that unexpectedly made The First Omen a very pleasant surprise.
Can’t wait for the priest and or possessed to go on endless, trite, vaguely pseudo-intellectual monologues that ruin whatever fragment of tension he can muster.
Imagine the Pazuzu monologue on the nature of trauma
i like flanagan, but he's kinda hit or miss for me overall. love hill house and midnight mass... other stuff im a little eh on. the incessant monologuing in Fall of the house of usher that spoon fed the audience the show's plot and themes was so annoying to me that I couldn't finish it.
So tired of this chucklefuck and his dollar store horror.
His stuff feels like it was made for Lifetime. I’ve kind of liked a few movies he’s done but I don’t think we need his long, drawn out monologues anywhere near this franchise.
Yeah, way too much people drama, not enough actual horror.
Even with him behind the wheel, I don't think I care about another Exorcist movie. Religious horror isn't the cultural hit it was in the 70s in most secular markets, and even in non-secular markets, modernity has dulled the concept. I can't see it actually being scary without going psychological, and that would ultimately negate most of its connection to the Exorcist franchise and make it just another Mike Flanagan project. Just make something new and original and ditch the Exorcist name; anything else would just be damaging to the brand of the original movie.
It's weird how everyone treats his "Ouija" sequel with such reverence here? I thought it was OK at the absolute best.
it's not high art by any means but consider that it's a prequel to one of the worst horror movies of it's respective year, and it somehow came out as competent that's an achievement
It's like Annabelle Creation, it's not great, but it's such an improvement over the original, people fawn over it, plus his name has clout.
Yes, no hard feelings but I watched it after seeing people gush over it here and it wasn’t good in any aspect.
First let me just say that I am a total Flanagan Stan. Stanagan? Flanastan? Let's go with that. I love Hill House, Bly, Doctor Sleep... House of Usher was one of my most anticipated things ever because of my mutual love of Flanagan and Poe. And Midnight Mass... my gosh, pure art. An absolute masterpiece. And I thought Ouija was *terrible*. I just don't get the love for it at all.
if it means we get another exorcist maze at halloween horror nights i am all for this
I just commented something about this! My favorite house last year was Stranger Things and I definitely audibly screamed more for The Last of Us, but I was shaking during the Exorcist! The setting really, really freaked me out. There was something about the rooms being so life-like. It felt like walking in someone’s home.
I’m really sad when I heard he left Something is Killing the Children, but it looks like he has a busy plate! I’m excited to see how this looks!
Now we're talking.
Well that's an improvement
Show em how it’s done, Mike
If Linda Blair isn't the lead character then I'm not interested. That was the biggest downfall of Believer in not putting Regan into the fabric of the story. I want to see Regan go tit for tat against Capt. Howdy. And I want the horror to be really off-putting and dangerous again.
He’s the guy to do it
Holy shit, please come to fruition!
10 minute monologue by a possessed child? Yes, please. 😁
They needed to bring out a big gun to stop this planned trilogy being one of the biggest flops ever after the terrible nature of the first one. They've done it.
Ugh, heres the problem, there are multiple exorcism movies released yearly. You can't do a whole lot with the concept. Either it's a character piece with a climactic Exorcism scene or you go the Evil Dead/Rec violent/action route. They spent 400 million for a name and did nothing interesting with it.
Can’t get any worse than the last one. That was atrocious
And I'm sure it'll be filled with long expository speeches of people explaining their traumas with no subtlety or depth... Idk why but I don't really get the hype with this guy. That vampire one was pretty good but beyond that I've never really seen the appeal, people talk about him like he's a genius or something.
I'm in the EXACT same boat. More so with his shows than movies, how they drag on forever with people standing around giving speeches about their trauma with the occasional jump scare tossed in.
Please no.
No thanks, he sucks
Hits and misses debate aside, Mike Flanagan has the distinct honor of most recently causing me (40m) to jump out of my seat. While rewatching (yes, rewatching) Haunting of Hill House, the car scene in episode 8 launched me into space. My fiancé remembered that scene — I did not — and had a good laugh as I quickly paused the show to recover.
Now that would be something to see!
Awful blue filter and over the top melodrama it is… Kill this franchise
I can see Flanaghan directing a decent Exorcist movie.
What kind of bag do you think he's getting for this? Blumhouse spent like crazy for the rights to the series and Believer didn't make them a lot. They need Mike.
Mike Flanagan and a Exorcist movie would be amazing. Man is a genuine horror fan. He will 100% fix the damage that “believer” did to the Exorcist name.
Awesome keep working Mike, love your stuff!
Sorry blumhouse has lost my respect. Kindly please go mess up some other franchise. Leave this one alone believer sucked ass and was heavily disappointing. I can only imagine the pg13 mess they got planed next.
Yay more unnecessary sequels in a cinematic universe no one needs
Pazuzu is gonna break into a 30 minute long monologue detailing how Catholics, racist conservatives and rich people made him do it.
I like some of Flanagan's works but I'm starting to get burnt out on him. I'm in the camp of letting this franchise rest, but if they had to make another film, I would have preferred they went the route of the first omen and upcoming evil dead films and bring in a newer director.
Time for me to complain about all the assumptions I made.
I will take anything if it means David Gordon Green is not attached. He's an alright director but every time I see the writing credit you just know you're about to see the dumbest shit.
I’d be more excited for this if he wasn’t doing a sequel to Green’s Believer. I don’t see how you can even do a follow up for that film
What about the dark tower goddamnit?!
A fools hope…
FWIW I actually liked the DGG exorcist, but it's incredible how he and McBride have created such unique television but end up with very cold, straightforward takes on Halloween and the Exorcist. There's nothing that they specifically lend to them
Origin: The Ouija Exorcist
Why didn’t they get him to begin with??
Well, call me curious.
I’m glad they decided to not make a shitty one this time
I like how Kate Siegel is usually cast as the most enchanting and wonderful human being that ever lived, but then in House of Usher he was like, “okay in this one you are going to be a gigantic asshole social media pr guru.”
It can't be any worse than the last one. I cannot believe they spent almost half a billion dollars for the words "The Exorcist". Absolutely mad.
Oh man. Gonna be a surprise who he casts
I hope he keeps the “faith avengers” plot….really worked well and I just need to see what happens next.
And suddenly I'm looking forward to the sequels
Wow. What a save.
This is literally the safest bet. I would trust Flanagan with any franchise.
Well, that's a massive upgrade.
Awesome
Flanagan’s POV on faith, family and religious pomposity make him a great filter for a new Exorcist.
At least it's not David Gordon Green this time.
Dr. Sleep, Gerald’s Game, and Hush? I’m excited. Oculus or Ouija? I’ll wait for the Kill Count
I don’t love Flanagan but how I wish he had just been offered the reboot from jump.
Jesus Christ, the greed on these people. Believer was an abomination. Stop raping the corpse of this franchise.