‘Hamnet’ Breakout Jacobi Jupe Joins Scarlett Johansson in Mike Flanagan’s ‘The Exorcist’
Fresh off one of the award season’s top contenders, Hamnet breakout Jacobi Jupe has been cast in Mike Flanagan’s new take on The Exorcist for Universal Pictures, per Deadline. The 12-year-old actor joins the previously announced Scarlett Johansson. Jupe is rumored to play her character’s son. Flanagan — the visionary behind “The Haunting of Hill House,” […]
Fresh off one of the award season’s top contenders, Hamnet breakout Jacobi Jupe has been cast in Mike Flanagan’s new take on The Exorcist for Universal Pictures, per Deadline.
The 12-year-old actor joins the previously announced Scarlett Johansson. Jupe is rumored to play her character’s son.
Flanagan — the visionary behind “The Haunting of Hill House,” “Midnight Mass,“ and Doctor Sleep — is writing and directing the all-new story set in The Exorcist universe.
Plot details remain under wraps, but the film is neither a remake of the 1974 horror classic nor a sequel to 2023’s The Exorcist: Believer.
Flanagan is producing via his Red Room Pictures banner alongside Jason Blum for Blumhouse-Atomic Monster and David Robinson for Morgan Creek Entertainment.
Executive producers include Red Room’s Alexandra Magistro and Blumhouse’s Ryan Turek.
“This is an opportunity to do something that I believe has never been done within the franchise — something that honors what came before it but isn’t built on nostalgia,“ Flanagan previously said of the project. “I really just saw an opportunity to make the scariest movie I’ve ever made. I know expectations are high. No one’s more intimidated than I am.”
The Exorcist is gearing up to enter production in March in New York City.
