The Exorcist: Martyrs

Name: The Exorcist: Martyrs
Genre: Horror
Released: 2027-03-12

Thirteen years ago, New York City detective Julie Miller ended the terror reign of satanic serial killer Father Sunday. The case made her a hero, and she has thrown herself into her work ever since. Now a new killer scrawls her name in an altar boy's blood on the walls of a church crypt, dragging her back into the darkness she believed she had buried with him.

ReleaseMarch 12, 2027

StatusCONFIRMED

StudioUniversal Pictures

Why it matters

Director Mike Flanagan takes over The Exorcist franchise for Blumhouse and Universal following his work on The Haunting of Hill House, Doctor Sleep, and Midnight Mass.

About The Exorcist: Martyrs

Mike Flanagan writes and directs The Exorcist: Martyrs, a restart for the franchise with no connection to 2023's The Exorcist: Believer. Flanagan arrives from The Haunting of Hill House, Midnight Mass and Doctor Sleep, a body of work built on grief and long conversations more than shocks, which is an unusual fit for a series defined by one very loud film from 1973. Chiwetel Ejiofor stars alongside Scarlett Johansson, Laurence Fishburne, Diane Lane and John Leguizamo, in a story that turns on a detective dragged back toward a case she believed was closed.

Universal opens it on March 12, 2027, pushed from an earlier March 2026 date, with Blumhouse Atomic Monster and Morgan Creek producing; a first trailer appeared at New York Comic Con in October 2026. The franchise has a poor record after the original, a string of sequels and reboots that never came close to it. So the interesting variable is whether Flanagan's slower method survives contact with a property audiences expect to escalate.

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