Yes, you did read that headline right – there are indeed seemingly plans afoot for a new Exorcist movie!

Via Deadline, Morgan Creek is at early work on a reboot for The Exorcist that would hit the silver screen in 2021. By seeing the term reboot there, we’d take that as a relaunching of the franchise rather than any out-and-out remake of William Friedkin’s 1973 movie.

Since The Exorcist terrorised moviegoers in ’73, horror hounds have been given follow-ups in the form of The Exorcist II: The Heretic, The Exorcist III and then the whole farce of 2004’s Exorcist: The Beginning and 2005’s Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist – the latter two which were essentially two different versions of the same film.

More recently, FOX aired two seasons of a TV spin on The Exorcist. Despite some initial trepidation, the show garnered plenty of praise across its two years, although it didn’t garner hit enough ratings to be given a third season.

As ever, expect more on this new Exorcist movie as we get it.