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- Mike Flanagan said during a Reddit AMA that he "wish[es] to hell" he could make a Jaws movie, conceding "no one will EVER get close to the original" while arguing the sequels left plenty of room for improvement.
- Flanagan pitched a Jurassic movie as "a true dinosaur horror film," saying he'd "go really scary with it."
- Flanagan admitted he had "spent a lot of my career thinking I wouldn't do franchises or sequels" but now loves "play[ing] in a world I know and respect and adore, and put my own spin on it."
- Flanagan's upcoming Exorcist film has Scarlett Johansson attached to star, per Deadline's November 2025 report.
- The Exorcist cast also includes Chiwetel Ejiofor, Laurence Fishburne, John Leguizamo, Sasha Calle, Diane Lane, Rahul Kohli, Kate Siegel, and Carla Gugino, among others.
- The Reddit AMA came as Flanagan promotes his television adaptation of Carrie, the project that followed his reversal on franchise work.
Why it matters: Flanagan has already broken his no-franchise rule with the Exorcist reboot, so his Jaws and Jurassic pitches aren't idle daydreaming — they're a working director publicly auditioning for legacy horror IP, and studios now have a named auteur actively asking to reimagine two of the genre's biggest properties.
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