After giving us a sequel to The Shining, Doctor Sleep, and a new addition to The Exorcist franchise in the can, Mike Flanagan is proving himself a brave filmmaker who can take on any cinematic staple and deliver. What then might a Jaws or Jurassic World movie look like with the director at the helm? As both are properties he'd love to have a crack at.

During a Reddit AMA, the showrunner for the new Carrie series was asked which other franchise he'd like to dive into, and what it would be, leading Flanagan to pick two of the massive suggestions that both started under the lens of Steven Spielberg.

"It's so funny to me because I spent a lot of my career thinking I wouldn't do franchises or sequels, and - whoops - but I really love getting to play in a world I know and respect and adore, and put my own spin on it," he explained. "Honestly, I wish to hell I could make a Jaws movie. Another example where no one will EVER get close to the original, but there is a ton of room for improvement on the sequels. A Jurassic movie could be a blast too; I'd want to go really scary with it. A true dinosaur horror film would be a blast."

Flanagan has spent a lot of time scaring audiences with supernatural entities, so it'd be an interesting shift for him to put the fear in us with either dinosaurs or a humongous, toothy fish.

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