12/7/2023 0 Comments Tim robinson comedy bang bang![]() They made him re-edit it, which didn’t help. When Morgan Creek and Fox screened a rough cut they had what Schrader called “buyer’s remorse,” feeling it wasn’t enough of a horror movie. And then it turned out it was too good to be true. I don’t think the early 2000s were a dead zone for horror, but at that time it definitely seemed too good to be true that Schrader, the high-minded auteur with the famously strict religious upbringing, was being given a crack at an EXORCIST movie. (Only Wisher and Carr received credit, but Carr said it didn’t resemble what he wrote.) Neeson had to drop out to do LOVE ACTUALLY, but miraculously the studio let Schrader hire Stellan Skarsgård ( IN ORDER OF DISAPPEARANCE) to star. But Frankenheimer had to leave due to illness (and died a month later), and his friend Paul Schrader (fresh off of AUTO FOCUS) agreed to take over if he could rework the script. He brought in novelist Caleb Carr for a page 1 rewrite, and Liam Neeson signed on to star as the younger version of Max von Sydow’s archaeologist/exorcist character, Father Lankester Merrin. ( TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY) and left the project, they picked up the great John Frankenheimer, who had most recently done REINDEER GAMES and the made-for-cable PATH TO WAR. But after McLoughlin didn’t like the script by William Wisher Jr. Robinson started trying to develop the prequel in the late ‘90s, probly without very lofty ambitions, since the first director attached was Tom McLoughlin ( FRIDAY THE 13TH PART VI: JASON LIVES). I actually always meant to see the EXORCIST prequel, but it was intimidating, because there were two of them. ![]() But after revisiting I, II and III in quick succession, and knowing I’d be seeing the new one too, I figured… when in Rome (home of the Vatican), right? Look, if you had one shot, one opportunity to seize the entire THE EXORCIST series in one moment… There are so many horror franchises that I’m a completist about, but I never really thought of myself as an EXORCIST guy. This is the first first-time-watch for me in this EXORCIST series viewing.
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