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MIKE – YOU’RE an artist! Why don’t you do a one-page snapshot of your favorite scene for us or something.
A graphic-novel adaptation of ANYthing Exorcist would be really interesting.
Us Exorcist fans miss out on all that type of memorabilia stuff. Our film is very unique in that way.
Yeah, MIKE, give us a sample of your Exorcist vision… no pressure, just if and when you find the time… if it’s something you’d like to do.
You know, that is a real, real temptation, guys (and gal, Blizzi!). There is no greater dream project than that, whose source material and characters are not my own.
Incidentally, I can promise you that I’ll be putting together such a yarn for one of my class projects at school, should one of my (comic book art) classes ever assign an adaptation project of, say, a great opening (as what we have in the Blatty novel and Friedkin film… Iraq — I’d looove to draw that!).
But beyond that, it would be great to deliver the whole story, based on both the film and the novel; in many ways the definitive adaptation of the story (at least in terms of content preserved from the novel), with any luck (well, maybe not when compared to the Friedkin film, but hopefully, maybe, the undisputed comic book version or graphic novel).
The hamster’s wheel is beginning to spin, incidentally…!
Two more thoughts:
1)I’m just as passionate (okay, maybe not quite!) about illustrating the unused alternate semi-final scene of the possessed Francis in DOMINION. I’ve been wanting to suprise you with it for some time, but no such luck, so now you know what to expect — eventually. 🙂
2)Morgan Creek apparently owns all the rights to anything and everything-‘Exorcist’ that happens to find its way into production, as per a covers-all-bases proclamation on their website. So, no matter what I might fully produce creatively in comic book format… consider it fan art. Unless Morgan Creek wants to get with the 21st Century and permit a graphic novel adaptation bearing the aformentioned content. Of course, they’d have me replaced with Rob Liefeld or someone else “less cerebral”. 😛 Note: Actually, I’m neither insuating that I’m Friedkin or Schrader, nor am I any of their comic book industry counterparts nor any of their inferiors’ comic book counterparts. But I can tell you that I would give this project as much care and love those greats strived to with their respective ‘Exorcist’ works. Note: I’d use the text or the film’s dialogue/narration verbatum, not changing a comma.
But just imagine, a beautifully drawn ‘Exorcist’ adaptation. Imagine one for the original and each of the sequels, causing fans and non-fans to re-experience the legendary film series in an all new way.
Thanks for your encouragement. I won’t let you down… In time. 😉
M.I.K.E.
Mike,
I’d love to see such a graphic novel and am surprised it’s never been done. If Mignola did it, I’d cry tears of joy…
😛Cheers & God Bless
Benjamin Szumskyj
(editor of the forthcoming ‘American Exorcist: Critical Essays on William Peter Blatty’)Maybe that’s the best way to “remake” this cinematic masterwork.
I would have Mike “HELLBOY” Mignola illustrate it. His work on the EXORCIST-cannibalizing Bram Stoker’s Dracula’s adaptation is stellar. I can just picture how he’d handle Merrin in Northern Iraq, or the tormented priest Father Karras, or “that thing upstairs.”
With both Hellboy and Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Christian themes and imagery abound, cinematically whether as films or as comics, and so what if Mignola were to do the definitive comic book adaptation of our favorite film? Even a sequel series adapting Legion. Or Dominion!
Okay, so if six degrees of seperration is a reality, everyone who agrees with me about Mignola lending his visuals to THE EXORCIST, go now and spread the word and make sure whomever you tell proceeds to tell everyone they know. And so on. 😛
Hey. I tried. 🙂
M.I.K.E.
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