2:45 am - 05/25/2012
Exclusive: Martha Marcy May Marlene Director Preps Exorcist for TV
What an excellent day for an exorcism! Nearly 40 years after The Exorcist became the first horror movie ever to be nominated for the Best Picture Oscar, Hollywood has again become possessed with William Peter Blatty’s best seller.
Sean Durkin, the writer-director of last year’s excellent but criminally underseen Elizabeth Olsen thriller Martha Marcy May Marlene, is adapting the fiendish classic into a ten-episode television series, this time backed by Morgan Creek and produced by
Roy Lee, the executive producer of films like The Departed and The Ring.
Unlike the iconic 1973 film, Durkin’s version of The Exorcist follows the events leading up to a demonic possession and especially the after-effects of how a family copes with it: In short, not well (really, after you start seeing stuff like this, can you blame them?), and when medical and psychiatric explanations fail, the desperate family turns to the church, with Father Damien Karras finally brought in to attempt the exorcism.
The Exorcist TV series won't be formally shopped to networks for another two weeks, but executives are already calling seeking meetings to inquire about landing the Durkin update.
Meanwhile, Transformers and Real Steel producer Don Murphy and Susan Montford’s Angryfilms are developing their own TV series that deals with the eviction of unwanted demons, The Exorcist Handbook. "This is an original series, not another remake,” said Murphy, in an interview with Vulture. “It's all about the main character, who [only] became an exorcist to help the woman he loves. It's going to be intense and scary.”
Murphy did his undergraduate work at Georgetown University and, accordingly, his Handbook has hired on a Jesuit priest who is an actual exorcist as a consultant. Take that, unclean spirits!
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Exorcist The TV Show?
Exclusive: Martha Marcy May Marlene Director Preps Exorcist for TV
What an excellent day for an exorcism! Nearly 40 years after The Exorcist became the first horror movie ever to be nominated for the Best Picture Oscar, Hollywood has again become possessed with William Peter Blatty’s best seller.
Sean Durkin, the writer-director of last year’s excellent but criminally underseen Elizabeth Olsen thriller Martha Marcy May Marlene, is adapting the fiendish classic into a ten-episode television series, this time backed by Morgan Creek and produced by
Roy Lee, the executive producer of films like The Departed and The Ring.
Unlike the iconic 1973 film, Durkin’s version of The Exorcist follows the events leading up to a demonic possession and especially the after-effects of how a family copes with it: In short, not well (really, after you start seeing stuff like this, can you blame them?), and when medical and psychiatric explanations fail, the desperate family turns to the church, with Father Damien Karras finally brought in to attempt the exorcism.
The Exorcist TV series won't be formally shopped to networks for another two weeks, but executives are already calling seeking meetings to inquire about landing the Durkin update.
Meanwhile, Transformers and Real Steel producer Don Murphy and Susan Montford’s Angryfilms are developing their own TV series that deals with the eviction of unwanted demons, The Exorcist Handbook. "This is an original series, not another remake,” said Murphy, in an interview with Vulture. “It's all about the main character, who [only] became an exorcist to help the woman he loves. It's going to be intense and scary.”
Murphy did his undergraduate work at Georgetown University and, accordingly, his Handbook has hired on a Jesuit priest who is an actual exorcist as a consultant. Take that, unclean spirits!
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Watch Lifetime snag it and turn it into some "the dad next door beats his wife and now his daughter is so stressed she's possessed"
Your icon is making me lose my ability to think though, I'm hypnotized...
Don't know if I want!!!!
Loved the movie, just don't know how this would play out for a series.
Just some nights.
Does anybody else have this extreme fear of demons?
jk
but omg bb that sounds terrifying. what exactly occurs to you?
have you seen a psychiatrist for this?
sounds like a possible psychiatric issue
i hope you're okay, bb.
Edited at 2012-05-25 10:53 am (UTC)
I hope you get better, bb.
Oh & last month my dad visited a woman who does herbal medicine and she told him that he has enemies and to be careful.
I don't think you are crazy. Lord, I would die if I saw the devil in my room.
this doll TERRIFIED ME
you can kick it into the oven or somethin
and yet it was so difficult for everyone to kill it. jfc.
(This is also someone who dressed up as Slappy the Dummy from Goosebumps and walked around wearing my father's rubber mask at the age of five.)
i am here for that
If you are, I was just thinking of watching it too. Is it any good?