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The Exorcist writer talks up possible TV mini-series

Posted by Team Boxwish 4 months ago

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Okay, so we get that many of the movies currently being mentioned as possible TV shows are very in vogue and current. There was director Roland Emmerich talking up the possibility of his current blockbuster 2012 hitting the small screen and also discussed a few months back as a TV contender was literary tear-jerker, The Time Traveler’s Wife (see Related Content, right). But what really baffles us is the planned resurrection of past films that have long deserted the limelight. We’re talking Teen Wolf and Heathers and especially the latest to jump aboard this network bandwagon – The Exorcist. Yes, Regan could be pea-souping her mum and scaring priests in your living room soon according to William Peter Blatty, the author and subsequent screenwriter of the supernatural spine-chiller.

In the new edition of horror magazine, Cemetery Dance, the writer takes centre stage with a previously unpublished short story and plenty of treats for fans of The Exorcist including the “lost” epilogue. And chief among them is an extensive interview with Blatty, in which he’s asked whether he would change anything about the original 1973 film, a question which provokes the TV revelation.

“Yes and no,” says Blatty. “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.”

Wow, let’s just take a minute to digest this. Not only has he written the script, but claims that the movie’s director, the Oscar-winning William Friedkin (we think we might keep it to William rather than Billy) has agreed to helm the project. Already this sounds more exciting than all the other touted TV adaptations. We wonder if they could snag Mike Oldfield’s “Tubular Bells” for the soundtrack again…

[via Bloody Disgusting]

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