Universal said Friday that its film The Exorcist, billed as a “radical redo” of the horror movie classic being written, directed and produced by Mike Flanagan and starring Scarlett Johansson, will be released on March 12, 2027, pushing it by a year.
The studio had originally set a Friday, March 13, 2026 release date for the new take on the franchise.
The pic from Blumhouse-Atomic Monster and Morgan Creek still takes a prime spring break spot in the 2027 release-date calendar that Universal had previously pegged for an event film. The only other movie on that date is Sony’s animated Buds.
Blumhouse confirmed that Flanagan was going all-in on The Exorcist back in May 2024 after his outsized success with series like The Fall of the House of Usher, Midnight Mass and The Haunting of Hill House and films like Doctor Sleep and most recently The Life of Chuck.
Soon after, Johansson joined the cast, followed by Hamnet‘s Jacobi Jupe.
Flanagan’s version has been billed as an all-new story and not connected to the world of the franchise or the latest Exorcist pic, 2023’s The Exorcist: Believer, which grossed $65.5 million in North America and $136.2M worldwide after NBCUniversal, Peacock and Blumhouse acquired rights from Morgan Creek in 2021.
The Exorcist is a Blumhouse-Atomic Monster and Morgan Creek Entertainment production, in association with Red Room Pictures. Producers are David Robinson (The Exorcist series, Dead Ringers series), Jason Blum (Get Out, Black Phone films) and Flanagan. Alexandra Magistro and Ryan Turek are executive producers.