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Further updates, September 30:
Legion updates:
http://www.theninthconfiguration.com/forum/index.php
http://www.theninthconfiguration.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=2
And, we’re off!
graville, please make sure you join us over there, too! 🙂
Cheers! We should continue the Father Morning appreciation discussion over in this forum.
New trailer.
Indeed. I’ll type it out for you:
11 – Continued:
as the CAMERA gradually speeds up its pace, and is at its loudest, larger than life, as we reach the landing at the top of the steps, a pause. Then, suddenly we are plunging, careening, tumbling end over end down the steps! The SOUND of the SCORE is a terrifying, pulsing ululation created by voices and electronics. But just before we smash against the street:
11A – INT. PRIEST’S ROOM ON CAMPUS (SET) – DAWN
A high-ceiling room austerely furnished: a small bureau, a cot, a crucifix on the wall. Kneeling by the bed in prayer is a venerable Jesuit priest (PAUL MORNING, S.J.) whose face is a map of goodness, strength, and wisdom painfully acquired. We SLAM CUT into a CU of his head jerking up from the resting place on clasped hands, his eyes wide in startled and sudden, fearful realization. His hair is a shock of white. In a dread whisper:
MORNING: Dear God, not again!
We then go to a FULL SHOT of the room.
MORNING (CONTD): Not again!
It really is also interesting to note how similar Morning looks to Merrin; not to mention both of their names beginning with an ‘M’. Then, of course, there is Nurse Merrin in EIII…
I think it is safe to claim that Blatty is fond of his Merrin character.
I also upped this, just because:
Very sorry to hear this.
Mike was actually the person I confided in back in 2004 when my own grandmother passed away. Hang in there, Mike. We are thinking of you.
After reading through the initial pages of the 1990 script a little more, it appears that Fr. Morning was to appear in the opening of the film, paralleling Merrin’s premonition from The Exorcist.
“Oh, no. Not again…”
– Morning
