First Trailer for Mike Flanagan’s ‘The Exorcist: Martyrs’ Stars Scarlett Johansson

The first full trailer for bağlantı”>The Exorcist: Martyrs, the new entry in the supernatural horror franchise directed by Mike Flanagan, has been released.

Flanagan leads the project as writer and director alongside a cast that includes Scarlett Johansson. The film arrives in movie theaters on March 12, 2027.

Flanagan is among the most prominent horror filmmakers working today, having created Netflix series such as The Haunting of Hill House, The Fall of the House of Usher, and Midnight Mass. He has also adapted Stephen King novels including Gerald’s Game, Life of Chuck, and Carrie.

A detective pulled back into darkness

The film follows Johansson’s character, New York City detective Julie Miller, who previously brought a satanic serial killer named Father Sunday to justice. According to an official synopsis, “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.”

Miller is joined by former prison chaplain Father William, played by Chiwetel Ejiofor, and rookie detective Gina Restrepo, played by Sasha Calle. Also starring are Diane Lane as Miller’s mother, Mary, and Jacobi Jupe as Julie’s son, Max.

The cast also includes Scoot McNairy, Gil Bellows, and Laurence Fishburne, with John Leguizamo returning as Father Sunday.

A cast familiar with Flanagan’s work

Samantha Sloyan recently worked with Flanagan on his Prime Video series bağlantı”>Carrie, which debuted this week. She plays Margaret White in the modern-day adaptation of Stephen King’s first published novel, and takes a currently unnamed small role in Martyrs.

In a recent interview with Polygon, Sloyan called The Exorcist: Martyrs the “scariest thing” she has seen Flanagan direct.

The franchise has been inconsistent over its roughly 50-year history, as evidenced by bağlantı”>The Exorcist: Believer, though the original remains regarded as one of the scariest horror films ever made. That leaves high standards for Flanagan’s entry when it reaches theaters in March 2027.