Mike Flanagan has signed an overall TV deal with Amazon MGM Studios, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. He’ll develop and produce original series for the studio. And why not? Flanagan already has Carrie there.
Flanagan is the (probably somewhat) twisted mind behind The Fall of the House of Usher, Midnight Mass, The Haunting of Bly Manor, The Haunting of Hill House and The Midnight Club.
Though the multiyear deal with his Red Room Pictures exists only on the series side, Flanagan’s major footprint in the horror space also extends to feature film. He’s adapted Stephen King’s Doctor Sleep and Gerald’s Game for film, and has written/directed/produced other features including Ouija: Origin of Evil, Hush, Before I Wake, Oculus, Absentia and The Life of Chuck.
Flanagan is currently writing, directing and producing a new Exorcist film for Blumhouse and Universal Pictures. As THR first reported last week, John Leguizamo is joining Scarlett Johansson (and Jacobi Jupe, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Laurence Fishburne and Diane Lane) in that one. The film begins production this week.
Plot details for The Exorcist are being kept under wraps, though it is known that Johansson plays a mother and Jupe her son. Leguizamo may be playing an antagonist. Universal Pictures will release the new film theatrically and has set a March 12, 2027 release date.
Flanagan’s Carrie TV series is due out on Amazon Prime Video in October. The Carrie series, also based on a Stephen King novel, is described as “a bold and timely reimagining of the story of misfit high-schooler Carrie White, who has spent her life in seclusion with her domineering mother. After her father’s sudden and untimely death, Carrie finds herself contending with the alien landscape of public high school, a bullying scandal that shatters her community and the emergence of mysterious telekinetic powers.”
It’s been 50 years since the iconic Carrie feature film adaptation. Flanagan will showrun the series and direct “select episodes.” He’ll executive produce the show alongside Trevor Macy, with whom Flanagan has collaborated with on The Fall of the House of Usher and The Haunting of Bly Manor/Hill House.
Deadline first reported the news of Flanagan’s overall deal.
