The Exorcist has always had behind-the-scenes drama but turned out great

Making an Exorcist movie isn’t easy. The latest entry in the Exorcist series, which was released this week in cinemas, is the first to have been subjected to a turbulent shoot and numerous rewrites or recuts.

But The following are some examples of how to use’s not all that special. Many franchises and horror series have experienced messy productions over the years. The Exorcist stands out because, despite all its production mess, it has all of its versions, one or more, that are still available. good — New releases are available at a discount Belief in The Exorcist.

To fully capture all the strange, horrific, tragic and devastating things that happened on the set of Exorcist films would be as long as the Bible. But we’re not going to let that stop us from talking about the history of one of the strangest and best horror franchises there is. With that in mind, here’s a brief history of the strange production tales behind the Exorcist franchise.

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Many people believe that the group of The Exorcist The movie was called “Haunted”. First movie of the series with screenplay by original The Exorcist William Peter Blatty, the author of the novel and William Friedkin (known for his sarcastic style), directed this horror film that became an instant classic. The film was plagued with problems even before its release.

A bird flew into the circuit box and started a fire, which destroyed the set. That is, everything except for Regan’s bedroom, of course — the place where most of the movie’s demonic activity takes place. Due to this, and other production problems, the schedule increased from 85 days up to 200.

Even worse are the injuries sustained during filming. Ellen Burstyn, Linda Blair and others suffered permanent back injuries while on the set. Blair has also had other effects that have lasted a long time. She says she is allergic to cold because of the temperatures maintained at minus twenty degrees Fahrenheit on the set.

While it would be easy to attribute all of this to some curse on the set of a scary movie, it’s even easier to see how lax safety standards could have contributed to each of these events.

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Heretic Exorcist 2It was a movie that looked almost completely different. Studio executives were mainly responsible for the sequel, as they wanted to cash in on a quick profit. According to the movie’s co-producer, Richard Lederer, in the book The Exorcist – Out of the ShadowsBob McCabe’s article about the Making of the Franchise, it was planned to produce a low-budget remake of the original using unused material from the shoot as well as alternate angles. The plan evolved into something a little more ambitious.

The film’s script was originally written by playwright William Goodhart (The Generation of the Right to Generate), whose idea for the film — which neither Blatty nor Friedkin wanted anything to do with — was to make it about how human consciousness could eventually be merged together with technology to connect every mind in the world, causing an existential conflict for those that wanted to do good and those that wanted to do evil.

But director John Boorman (Excalibur) disliked Goodhart’s script and brought in Rospo Pallenberg (Excalibur) to do rewrites. The movie was completely reworked, according to Linda Blair. Pallenberg also ended up directing the majority of the film.

The 2023 film is the most anticipated sequel (besides the prequels).Heretic: Exorcist 2, TheIt’s a mess. The story feels like it’s two separate stories with no real throughline. This in turn makes the film feel like its own reflection. topsy-turvy production. Thankfully, The HereticIt is still a creepy and entertaining movie. Boorman might not have conveyed the intended psychology, but the movie was still entertaining and creepy.

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The strangest part is here. The Exorcist 3,Original The Exorcist author Blatty, and it’s adapted from his novel Legion. LegionThe sequel of The ExorcistBlatty initially pitched the story as a movie that would bring him back together with Friedkin. Friedkin had left the project when Blatty chose to turn the novel into a story.

Blatty’s novel is about a series of deaths in Washington, D.C., that directly match up with the hallmarks of a serial killer who’s been dead for years — but whose body was never found. This novel is based on Lt. Kinderman from the original. The Exorcist Novel, who investigates the deaths. Kinderman gradually ties all these murders back to Regan MacNeil’s exorcism.

Blatty began to look for a director after his novel was a success. John Carpenter, horror master and guru of all things spooky, was by far the most intriguing person Blatty met. The pair talked a few times about the movie, but Carpenter had a problem with the script, which would turn into a much larger issue for Blatty down the road: It didn’t have an exorcism.

Blatty finally got his wish, and directed the film himself. The studio decided to change its mind long after the principal filming was completed. They said the ending was not good enough and that it needed to be exorcised. So, according to Blatty, in McCabe’s book, he decided that if anyone was going to rework the ending, it might as well be him. The script was rewritten with a brand new ending, including an exorcist who is only in the story for the end.

The movie’s exorcism itself isn’t awful, but it does come out of nowhere and feels totally unconnected to the rest of the story. Blatty didn’t hate the theatrical version of the movie, but in Shadows are no longer hiddenBlatty claimed that his version of the song was superior. It has not been reassembled in its entirety. The closest we may ever get is the new 2023 Shout Factory release, which includes the original movie in a new 4K transfer, along with a new cut of Blatty’s version, called Exorcist 3: Legion, that has been assembled from VHS copies of dailies from the set — to replace some of the footage of Blatty’s version that production company Morgan Creek lost.

Even without the full re-creation of Blatty’s vision, The Exorcist 3,In any version it is a great horror movie.

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It’s a bit more complex than the other two because it technically involves two films that are related but separate. First, there was Dominion – Prequel To The ExorcistThe first release was in 2009, and it is the second one to be released. The Beginning of Exorcist. The story behind this is more complex than one might imagine.

The quest for an Exorcist prequel started in the late ’90s with a screenplay by TerminatorWilliam Wisher Jr. Caleb Carr, the director of this project was hired after several attempts by studios.AlienistPaul Schrader was chosen to rewrite and direct the film.Taxi Driver, First Reformed) to direct. The film Schrader came back with, which he insisted was a faithful adaptation of Carr’s screenplay, horrified the studio; there was no blood, no gore, and hardly any scares in the movie at all.

The studio shelved this movie after a couple of recuts. Renny Hardin, a director (Die Hard 2) to come in and make a completely different version, with a new script and entirely new actors — save for Stellan Skarsgård, who stars as Father Lankester Merrin. Harlin’s version, called The Exorcist: The beginningThe film was to feature more blood, scares and action. It was an absolute disaster.

In an interview with the Independent, Schrader recalls watching the movie while sitting next to Blatty, commenting, “If it stays this bad, I bet there’s a chance I can get mine resurrected.” And that’s exactly what happened. Since Schrader’s film was already finished, and the Harlin version was already underperforming, Morgan Creek let Schrader cut his own version of his film — sort of.

Schrader’s post-production was not funded by the studio. Tim Silano, the editor of the film’s final cut, fought hard to include Schrader. The pair even had to do the film’s color timing themselves, rather than the conventional process of leaving that to the cinematographer. Even more distressing, Schrader wasn’t given enough money or time to commission an original score, so Twin Peaks composer Angelo Badalamenti worked out about 14 minutes of a score, including the movie’s theme, for free. Dog Fashion Disco provided the remainder of the score, with Trevor Rabin’s Harlin-version of the soundtrack.

In the end, what Schrader compiled wasn’t quite the version of the film he envisioned, but it was a lot closer than the Harlin version. More importantly, it’s actually quite good, a fascinating intersection of Old World faith and superstition meeting the evils of modern imperialism and colonialism. Like so many Exorcist movies, the final confrontation feels a little tacked on, but Merrin’s journey actually does feel like a proper setup for the character we see later in the series.