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Not to invite extremism and overkill, but… why not bring Skarsgard back, this time as the older Merrin. That should really confuse casual Exorcist viewers – and maybe some of the fans!
Yes, thanks to Justy and Blizzi for sharing. What a heartbreaking mess. Superstition’s misplaced efforts to “help” replacing wise compassion. The most real horror is walking in Anneliese’s shoes – can you imagine what it was like for her – to be doubly victimized by her own brain chemistry and the incompetence of clergy and physicians…? Given her environment, she was trapped from the onset of her “demonic” symptoms. No way out… at least “our MacNeil kid” had good religious and medical treatment, even if her story was only fiction…
Yes. And please do what Friedkin did – cast it with relative unknowns. Anchor it with maybe a couple of knowns (e.g., like Cobb and Von Sydow). But make it fresh and disruptive of expectations.
Oh, so sorry to hear of this. Take heart, Mike. Your Howdy family cares for you and anticipates your return when you are able.
Blizzi, thank you for passing this along to all of us.
Love it! Great find, Ryan! How nice that Morning was actually scripted, esp. in the beginning. Can you imagine that, plus the morgue scene with dead Karras and Kinderman… May the Fates grant that sometime, somehow, the Legion story can be fulfilled and repaired and filmed… and brought to us.
Great finds, Blizzi! Spooky house… I suppose we’ll never really know what happened, but at least this story – urban myth or not – is anchored in physically surviving artifacts… makes one ponder…
Nice you’re back, Mike. Your faith is seeing you through some troubled times.
It’s delightful that you got accepted officially into the book. Congratulations – I’m sure the text is richer for your contribution.
The “air” sound abounds in The Exorcist novel. Merrin “M-air-in”…. Karras. Perrin. And wasn’t Chris’s agent’s name “Jerris” or something like that?
Thanks Mike for letting me know there is still room for an essay. I’m not up for it right now, but thanks as always for thinking of me.
Yeah, that script seems gangbusters… Morning/Merrin parallels, etc. A true sequel, fully of Blatty atmospherics. Oh, that somehow it could be fleshed out into celluloid… or maybe it could be made into an alternative Legion novel… I don’t know how copyright works, if that’s even possible. Mouth-watering prospects indeed…
