Comments on: Martha Marcy May Marlene Director to Remake The Exorcist as a TV Series

By: Marcus Mallard

Marcus Mallard — Fri, 25 May 2012 16:28:59 +0000

I think that returning to the source material–something other remakes haven’t been able to do because the sources were the films (except films such as I am Legend)–would be perfectly fine. I think that adaptations of the same source material are okay, and they can stand on their own, arguably without much comparison between the two.

William Peter Blatty also felt that the novel was unfinished, and for the 40th anniversary, he rewrote sections of the book. Here is the article from NPR where he talks about it: http://www.npr.org/2011/10/29/141683620/after-40-years-grisly-exorcist-book-gets-a-rewrite

I will watch this mini-series if it ever sees light, and I will be glad to see it. I think we need to see a well-done exorcism film/series because I think they have been lacking (and I haven’t seen Apparitions as mentioned by Slushie Man).

By: Scott Harrigan

Scott Harrigan — Fri, 25 May 2012 14:27:24 +0000

Why? That is my only question. Not only are they remaking a film, they are changing mediums. I do not hold any hope for this idea at all. At least it will only be a miniseries instead of stretching it out into an undefined length. I still do not see why it needs to be redone, and I cannot help feeling it will lose a lot of its fear and impact by being made into a television show. Really it was fine the way it was.

http://www.videodetective.com/movies/the-exorcist/3009#.T7-WauuWclc

By: Slushie Man

Slushie Man — Thu, 24 May 2012 22:15:04 +0000

I’m kinda for this. I mean, it was pretty much already done in a 6-episode British series called Apparitions, back in 2008 and that was REALLY good. I mean, it wasn’t directly adapted from The Exorcist, but it was the next closest thing, and easily a better Exorcist ‘movie’ then any of the sequels were.