Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave, Venom: The Last Dance) has been cast in the new take on The Exorcist from writer-director Mike Flanagan’s (“The Haunting of Hill House,” Doctor Sleep).

The Oscar nominee joins the previously announced Scarlett Johansson (The Avengers), Jacobi Jupe (Hamnet), and Diane Lane (Unfaithful).

Plot details remain under wraps, but the film will tell an all-new story set in The Exorcist universe. It is neither a remake of William Friedkin’s 1974 horror classic nor a sequel to 2023’s The Exorcist: Believer.

Flanagan is producing via...