“Your mother sucks eggs in hell”

William Peter Blatty, the guy who wrote the Exorcist novel and subsequent screenplay has revealed that he has begun work on an Exorcist miniseries script.

Cemetery Dance magazine recently caught up with the legendary author and amongst other questions, asked him that if he could; would he change anything about the original Exorcist movie, to which Blake replied…

“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.”

At this moment there doesn’t seem to be any official status to the project and even though Blake claims that William Friedkin is attached, Friedkin’s name doesn’t hold as much weight as it previously did.

We’ll keep an eye on this one for you…

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