When horror followers consider Mike Flanagan, the fast associations are Netflix and Stephen King. The creator of The Haunting of Hill Home, Midnight Mass, The Fall of the Home of Usher, and different much-loved Netflix restricted sequence has since shifted his streaming home to Prime Video, however his allegiance to King stays strong. His subsequent launch, non-horror story The Lifetime of Chuck, is one other adaptation of the writer’s work for the massive display. And whereas he has extra within the works in that division, he’s additionally adding another big horror category to his resume quickly: The Exorcist.
With David Gordon Inexperienced departing the franchise after the disappointing The Exorcist: Believer—lately, Inexperienced spoke about what his scrapped second film might’ve been like—the expectations of Common and Blumhouse now relaxation on Flanagan’s take, Chatting with the Hollywood Reporter, he had fairly the tease to supply.
“I’ve all the time felt that there’s no level in going right into a franchise or right into a property that monolithic until there’s one thing new you may carry,” he advised the commerce. “I chased The Exorcist very aggressively as a result of I used to be satisfied I had one thing that I might add. This is a chance to do one thing that I consider has by no means been completed throughout the franchise—one thing that honors what got here earlier than it however isn’t constructed on nostalgia. I actually simply noticed a chance to make the scariest film I’ve ever made. I do know expectations are excessive. Nobody’s extra intimidated than I’m.”
The scariest film he’s ever made? Daring phrases coming from the man who injected the Bent-Neck Woman into numerous nightmares—although technically talking, Hill Home was a sequence, not a characteristic.
The interview goes on to debate Flanagan’s convivial relationship with King, together with the nerve-wracking expertise of screening 2019’s The Shining sequel Physician Sleep for the writer, who notoriously disliked the 1980 Stanley Kubrick Shining. It went nicely, clearly; they’re nonetheless friends, and never solely does Flanagan have The Lifetime of Chuck coming, he’s additionally received The Darkish Tower books on his to-adapt listing, envisioning each characteristic and sequence potentialities. (Whereas Flanagan doesn’t specify what his first Amazon venture shall be, he says “spooky is unquestionably the precedence.”)
However there’s one King story we received’t be getting from Flanagan, which he admits with what appears like a certain quantity of remorse: an adaptation of 2014 novel Revival. It’s a few man whose life intersects over time with a minister turned religion healer whose use of electrical energy awakens supernatural terrors. Flanagan advised THR he wrote a script that was “considered one of my favourite issues I’ve ever written,” however “it fell aside,” including “That’s gone now as a result of I’ve The Darkish Tower. Stephen doesn’t prefer to have you ever sitting on a couple of factor at a time. It means one thing’s not getting made.”
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