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Every Region 1 DVDs/collections, etc. (1997-2005) having to do with William Peter Blatty AND bearing EXORCIST somewhere in the title, including a Schrader-signed DOMINION. 🙂________________________________________
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EXORCIST: THE BEGINNING novelization by Steven Piziks (signed); THE EXORCIST (stated first edition, signed) and LEGION (first edition)All the major non-fiction books (hardcovers, unless only available in paperback) concerning Blatty’s THE EXORCIST and LEGION in novel/film.
EXORCIST: THE BEGINNING (Uncorrected Bound Manuscript) (based on the Caleb Carr script which ultimately was shot and became Paul Schrader’s DOMINION)
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Most LEGION mag clippings and virtually all “prequel” (both films) mag clippings.________________________________________
IN TIME
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EXORCIST: DOMINION (the legendary “Wisher” draft of the film which went from being filmed and titled as EXORCIST: THE BEGINNING to DOMINION: PREQUEL TO THE EXORCIST. Justy, how’s the script? 😛 I recommend this to everyone. It’s available at http://www.scripthouse.comM.I.K.E.
Unless they can use as much footage from the original film as humany possibly (all of it!!!!), this remake has no chance of… anything.
I’d love a TV miniseries, as well, but they’ll proabably go big-screen, considering how forgotten THE SHINING miniseries years back is.
Yeah, Burstyn is a huge reason why “If it isn’t broken, don’t fix it” applies here. So, if they know what’s good for ’em, they may as well just re-release the original film. No remake. Morgan Creek has spent enough on the Exorcist with only really Dominion and The Exorcist III (to an extent, thanks to that final “exorcism” reel) to show for it.
M.I.K.E.
I’d love that — a TV mini-series. Set in any time, and by Blatty (hopefully), it could only be better than a big-screen desecration of the film. I think more thought and imaginiation would be required, by default.
M.I.K.E.
Amen, Granville, amen.
Boy do I wish they’d just remove THE HERETIC and EXORCIST: THE BEGINNING and start a competing series of Exorcist films, leaving the good ones completely alone. THAT’S the way to sell these movies, Morgan Creek and WB! Some people want silliness, others want seriousness. Separate the films. They’re different as night and day. This “Anthology” DVD set coming out could have been your chance. Maybe next time, when this set fails to really sell. Or maybe I’m wrong; it could sell. Hmmmm…
Note: THE EXORCIST III could join the Boorman and Harlin film’s; it is, after all, a film soiled and dumbed-down by Morgan Creek, thanks to that shoe-horned exorcism-for-scares. Needless to say, Blatty’s original — even if just the confirmed VHS rough cut with unfinished effects, etc, a film affectionately known as LEGION or LEGION 1.0 — should join the Friedkin and Schrader films.
C’mon, Morgan Creek and WB — two different trilogies, each with versions of LEGION and the prequel.
M.I.K.E.
Good, good examples — agreed. Also, remember the “Exorcist Steps”, which in the novel is referred to as the Hitchcock Steps… unless I’m wrong. 🙂
Incidentally, Francis Ford Coppola’s BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA (1992) sure seemed to steal/borrow from THE EXORCIST… Watch it once or thrice and you’ll surely recognize visual after visual…! 😐 🙂
M.I.K.E.
Maybe, maybe, maybe Blatty’s VHS copy of HIS Legion version — a rough cut — could turn up as a second disc or special feature. Blatty HAS such a copy of the film, which, given all accounts concerning THE “Blatty version” that never surfaced, is in fact the closest thing to being a finished film THAT Exorcist sequel will EVER be. The footage and other necessities Blatty and co. would require to assemble his PROPER cut… are MIA. Probably decomposing in James G. Robinson’s office bathroom’s septic tank. GRRRRR.
M.I.K.E.
Justy, you don’t have E:TB? What is WRONG with you…?!
Wait, nevermind — that’s being harsh; you deserved a pat on the back. Good man. 😀
M.I.K.E.
THAT’S IT! That’s a great idea! How realistic, given Blatty’s age, I don’t know. But I bet he might very well be interested in such, certainly that such an idea MAY have occurred to him.
Fingers crossed, but breath not held.
M.I.K.E.
WOW! I’m truly impressed. GOOD FIND! I had no idea the makers of THE HERETIC did their homework better than the makers of EXORCIST: THE BEGINNING, getting their Pazuzu iconography to be African and not Iraqi. I’m truly astounded. 😮
One more point for THE HERETIC. 😛
M.I.K.E.
Where’d you get it? I now have a regionless DVD player and am tempted to pick this baby up, given there’s likely never to be one made for the big R1. 😐
Thank you.
M.I.K.E.
Gosh, I’d LOVE to see the origin of Paz. And truly, finally, CGI special effects would finally have their place of honor (yes, HONOR) in the Exorcist film saga. 😛
But seriously, I’d hope for something as epic-in-scope and harrowing as the opening moments of THE PROPHECY (starring Christopher Effin’ Walken). I can’t think of a more graceful, believable (or passable) “Heaven” battle in cinema.
Just keep it out of Morgan Creek’s hands, unless Blatty’s in charge or producing, and Jim Robinson is on some kind of leash (or elsewhere, anywhere!). Then the film could in fact survive the conceptual level and go on to storytelling, if not finanical, success!
EXORCIST: SATAN CROWNED
EXORCIST: REQUIEM
EXORCIST: THE FALL
M.I.K.E.
As much as I appreciate and share your frustration, here’s my take — one first more or less articulated by the great EKM of (Bloody News fame) — an explanation I believe to be true:
Blatty had a new and different story to tell in LEGION/EXORCIST III, and made sure that not even the original film and book got in the way. He changed things, and shoe-horned in the friendship. In the film and book it works, but not so much as a sequel; too ‘Twilight Zone’, and it takes us right out of the story.
Blatty just decided to update and overhaul his saga a bit. Very well; he gave us an even better book and film (with Friedkin) already. 🙂
M.I.K.E.
