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“Exorcist: From Novel To film” must be a hard book to get a hold of. I have the hard cover and the paperback novel that was re-released when TVYNS was in theaters, but I’ve never seen “From Novel to film” anywhere. And I actually have a copy of the Exorcist in french. Found it at a yard sale (I’m bilingual).
Hi Kevin,
From Novel to Film was published in 1974. I bought a copy off Ebay. I think you can still find some there.I remembered being scared by that book, cause it had pics of the demonic Regan in it. It took me some courage to look at it finally, but I found the book to be interesting. I have the other paperback by Peter Travers, which is a good read too.
Did you like the first draft screenplay? The first 20 pages differed a lot from the novel and Sharon seemed a little creepy, but I liked it.
It’s the pictures of Shirley and Sachi that make it seem like a dramedy. They are always doing funny things..
But why put a picture of a happy family doing funny things on a cover that screams “The Exorcist?” It’s actually funny rather than effective, in my opinion.
What?? I didn’t do this wallpaper to be effective. It was only to show pictures of the people who Blatty based Chris and Regan on!
I’m a huge fan of Shirley MacLaine and her daughter Sachi. They were the models for Chris & Regan of the book. Chris’s personal life was based on Shirley as well. I made a wallpaper of them:
I buy these images off Ebay from magazines, so they’re not stolen or anything.
{I know the wallpaper is not very good, he-he.}
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