Fresh off one of the award season’s top contenders, Hamnet breakout Jacobi Jupe has been cast in Mike Flanagan’s new take on The Exorcist for Universal Pictures, per Deadline.

The 12-year-old actor joins the previously announced Scarlett Johansson. Jupe is rumored to play her character’s son.

Flanagan — the visionary behind “The Haunting of Hill House,” “Midnight Mass,“ and Doctor Sleep — is writing and directing the all-new story set in The Exorcist universe.

Plot details remain under wraps, but the film is neither a remake of the 1974...