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The Exorcist and Legion by Wiliam Peter Blatty
Lettered Edition Already Almost Sold Out!Collectors take note! Both editions of our brand new signed special edition of The Exorcist and Legion by William Peter Blatty are selling very well and the LETTERED EDITION is nearly sold out!
If you want a copy of this beautiful deluxe Lettered Edition for your collection, this could be your last chance to order! Don’t wait!
Featuring these two classic novels in one collectible volume for the first-time ever, this oversized deluxe special edition will be a must-have for any collector of horror!
This special signed Limited Edition also includes a bonus career-spanning interview conducted by Cemetery Dance Managing Editor Brian Freeman, covering Blatty’s life and career from the 1950s to the present.
An excerpt of this interview appeared in Cemetery Dance #62, the William Peter Blatty special issue, but that was just a small taste of all of the great topics Blatty discussed in the epic interview.
This 500+ page special edition is ready for the printer and will be published next year. Don’t wait to place your order!
CaryMG said:
Yes, I know where to WATCH it.
That’s why I ask: Where do I DOWNLOAD it?
Thanks in advance!
Buy the DVD, rip the documentary with DVD decrypter.
To me, it’s another one of those grey areas like UFOs or the Loch Ness monster; we all want to believe in it, but there has been no solid, reliable (completely convincing) evidence for it. I remain in the “I want to believe area” – held back by rationality.
I hope Bill ends up directing “Elsewhere” too. After all these years, seeing him behind a camera again would make my heart warm.
Interestingly, remember the criticism Stephen King had towards Blatty in… Danse Macabre, I think it was? Anyway, check out what he had to say about Stephen King on the right side of this page:
The unreleased “Exorcist” epilogue and “Legion” prologue can both be found here, along with the rest of the contents:
http://www.theninthconfiguration.com/blatty/articles/cemetery_dance_magazine_2009/
http://www.theninthconfigurati…..m/#bignews
:: Extremely BIG News
Friday the 13th has proven to be a day full of revelations.To be concise: Cemetery Dance Magazine issue #62 has arrived.
Here are the contents:
– LOST scenes from The Exorcist & Legion
– The CONTROVERSIAL Short Story that never saw print
– Kealan Patrick Burke returns to Legion
– A NEW epic InterviewThis latter “epic interview” is indeed very epic. Here are a few excerpts:
CD: Looking back, is there anything you would change about the film now if you could?
WPB: Yes and no. I would love to have been able to include the subplot involving Karl and his daughter Elvira, which I did in my first draft, but that script ran to 172 pages, much, much too long. But I might have it my way in the near future, inasmuch as I've written an Exorcist miniseries script that not only faithfully includes all the main elements of the novel, but also some rather spooky new material and scenes, as well as a totally new (and perhaps much more satisfying) ending. I've also updated it. Billy Friedkin has agreed to direct.
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CD: How did Samuel L. Jackson end up in the movie [The Exorcist III]?
WPB: Sam Jackson's appearance in Legion was unknown to me until the day when we were shooting the dream sequence and someone pointed to him and said, “Hey, did you know that's Sam Jackson over there?” He was pointing to an actor wearing dark glasses who played a blind man and had only one line, “The living are deaf.” “Why in the world is he doing this?” I asked, and the answer was, “He just wanted to be in it.” In later years I wrote an Exorcist mini-series script with an African American as Karras and talked to Jackson about it but he didn't want to do television.
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CD: Do you have interest in directing again?
WPB: George told me when we were filming Legion, “Nobody directs anybody!” But, yes, there's some interest in Germany in my film script of Elsewhere which, if it gets off the ground, I would in all likelihood be directing. It's good to get out and have a tiger by the tail now and then. Stimulating.
You may view scans of the entire sections devoted to Bill in the William Peter Blatty > Articles section:
http://www.theninthconfigurati…..zine_2009/
It should be noted that the entire, full-length interview will be available in an upcoming new special edition of The Exorcist and Legion being released soon through Cemetery Dance Publications.
I hadn't read this before:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exorcist_II:_The_Heretic
In a 2005 interview, John Boorman remarked:
“it all comes down to audience expectations. The film that I made, I saw as a kind of riposte to the ugliness and darkness of The Exorcist – I wanted a film about journeys that was positive, about good, essentially. And I think that audiences, in hindsight, were right. I denied them what they wanted and they were pissed off about it – quite rightly, I knew I wasn't giving them what they wanted and it was a really foolish choice. The film itself, I think, is an interesting one – there's some good work in it – but when they came to me with it I told John Calley, who was running Warners then, that I didn't want it. “Look,” I said, “I have daughters, I don't want to make a film about torturing a child,” which is how I saw the original film. But then I read a three-page treatment for a sequel written by a man named William Goodhart and I was really intrigued by it because it was about goodness. I saw it then as a chance to film a riposte to the first picture. But it had one of the most disastrous openings ever – there were riots! And we recut the actual prints in the theatres, about six a day, but it didn't help of course and I couldn't bear to talk about it, or look at it, for years.”
