Despite the failure of The Exorcist: Believer, Universal, Blumhouse and director Mike Flanagan have compelled horror fans to give the horror franchise one more chance by enlisting Scarlett Johansson (Black Widow, Jurassic World Rebirth) to lead a new movie, and the project has now added another new cast member.
Per Deadline, Sasha Calle has signed on for an undisclosed role in the horror revival, which is set for release on March 12, 2027. She joins previously announced supporting cast members Jacobi Jupe, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Laurence Fishburne, and Diane Lane.
Calle played Supergirl in The Flash, and more recently appeared in Netflix's The Rip.
Though plot details are still under wraps, this new movie is said to be a full reboot, and will not be a continuation of The Exorcist: Believer. The 2023 release proved to be a massive disappointment for fans of William Friedkin's masterpiece, but it did actually end up performing pretty well at the box office. Whether this movie will turn out to have any ties at all to the original remains to be seen.
Flanagan's most recent project was Stephen King adaptation The Life of Chuck, and he has previously helmed the likes of The Fall of the House of Usher Doctor Sleep, Gerald’s Game, Ouija: Origin of Evil, The Haunting of Hill House, The Haunting of Bly Manor, Midnight Mass, and The Fall of the House of Usher.
This guy rarely misses, so fingers crossed he'll be able to get this franchise back on track.
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"Exactly 50 years ago this fall, the most terrifying horror film in history landed on screens, shocking audiences around the world. Now, on Friday, October 13, a new chapter begins. From Blumhouse and director David Gordon Green, who shattered the status quo with their resurrection of the Halloween franchise, comes The Exorcist: Believer.
Since the death of his pregnant wife in a Haitian earthquake 12 years ago, Victor Fielding (Tony winner and Oscar nominee Leslie Odom, Jr.; One Night in Miami, Hamilton) has raised their daughter, Angela (Lidya Jewett, Good Girls) on his own. But when Angela and her friend Katherine (newcomer Olivia Marcum), disappear in the woods, only to return three days later with no memory of what happened to them, it unleashes a chain of events that will force Victor to confront the nadir of evil and, in his terror and desperation, seek out the only person alive who has witnessed anything like it before: Chris MacNeil."
The Exorcist: Believer also stars Ann Dowd as Victor and Angela’s neighbor, and Jennifer Nettles and Norbert Leo Butz as the parents of Katherine, Angela’s friend.