After failing to reignite the series with 2023’s legacy sequel The Exorcist: Believer, Universal and Blumhouse are taking a second stab at relaunching The Exorcist franchise by turning to horror maestro Mike Flanagan (The Haunting of Hill House, Carrie) for The Exorcist: Martyrs, which – judging by the newly-released first trailer – will be shifting gears from the story of Chris and Regan MacNeil to follow in the footsteps of 1990’s The Exorcist III and the return of Legion; check it out below…
Thirteen years ago, New York City detective Julie Miller (Scarlett Johansson) 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.
Aided by former prison chaplain Father William (Academy Award nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor), who heard Father Sunday’s final confession, and sharp rookie detective Gina Restrepo (Sasha Calle, The Rip), Detective Miller will discover a filament linking a lineage of serial killers, from H.H. Holmes to the Zodiac, that could corrupt everything, and everyone, she loves with an evil that goes well beyond the mortal.
The Exorcist: Martyrs features a cast that includes Scarlett Johansson, Jacobi Jupe, John Leguizamo, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Laurence Fishburne, Diane Lane, Sasha Calle, Rahul Kohli, Hamish Linklater, Gil Bellows, Carl Lumbly, Robert Longstreet, Matt Biedel, Samantha Sloyan, Kate Siegel, John Gallagher Jr., Benjamin Pajak, and Carla Gugino.
The Exorcist: Martyrs is set for release on March 12th, 2027.
