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08-16-2004, 10:47 AM
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Found this really interesting article:
http://www.laweekly.com/ink/04/38/features-foundas.php
Now I am interested in seeing the "Version We're Allowed to See." Looks like they just might put Schrader's version on DVD too.
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08-16-2004, 01:12 PM
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Did anyone else see the "E! true story" of the "Curse of The Exorcist"? It had some interesting coverage of the new EXORCIST 4, and also an interview with the Morgan Creek head honcho (don't recall his name, sorry), who confirmed that the Paul Schrader version WILL come out on DVD, and it's something the studio is fully supporting.
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08-16-2004, 01:30 PM
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Don't they have fact checkers at the Times? Check out this quote:
"...Paul Schrader — the cinematic auteur who directed art-house classics like "Raging Bull" and "Taxi Driver," "
Directed? I think his buddy Marty would have something to say about that.
Good article otherwise.
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08-16-2004, 04:07 PM
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The NYT corrected that mistake soon after, correctly stating that Schrader wrote the screenplays to those Scorsese films.
I saw some of that show on "E" last night, and thought it was just a bunch of typical commercial bullshit. I saw it right after reading the LA Weekly column I linked earlier, which makes Robinson look like a Nazi. His comments on the "E" show then seemed rather shallow.
I try like the devil to not judge anything before I see it, so I'll definately catch the movie this weekend. But only because I'm more confident now that we will see Schrader's film sometime.
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08-16-2004, 04:22 PM
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IIRC, they have to rease Schrader's version because of director's guild rules. It will be interesting to compare the two when the DVD hits.
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08-16-2004, 04:23 PM
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Blatty was approached to adapt and direct a screen version of Legion, though by the time the movie hit theaters, it would be called The Exorcist III and would feature changes — mandated by its producer — that saw the story rewritten to be more of a direct sequel. Those changes included the return of Father Damien Karras (the young priest-psychiatrist who falls to his death at the end of The Exorcist) and the addition of an exorcism scene at the end. The producer in question? None other than James G. Robinson. “Jim Robinson - So, I tried to explain to them that The Exorcist was not Rocky — we’re not going to go after a new, one-armed demon every episode. But Robinson wouldn’t give it up. He just let me go my way until the very end, let me do my cut. Then I showed up on the Fox lot one day, and my parking space was gone and the editing-room door was locked.” - it rolled into cinemas on August 17, 1990, in a cut Blatty acknowledges was far from what he had intended
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After completing the interviews for this article, I received a message from William Peter Blatty saying that Schrader had sent him a copy of his version of Exorcist: The Beginning and that, in spite of his initial reservations, he found it to be “wonderfully acted and directed,” “elegant” and “a class act.” In fact, he liked it so much he watched it twice.
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Hmm...not only do I want to see Schrader's film but I would love to see William Peter Blatty's version of Exorcist III....
..Jim Robinson seems a d**khead to me, no?
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08-16-2004, 06:01 PM
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I think the trailer looks interesting.
 
Lo, there do I see my mother, and my sisters, and my brothers, Lo, there do I see the line of my people, back to the beginning, Lo, they do call to me, they bid me take my place among them, In the halls of Valhalla,where the brave may live...
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08-16-2004, 07:45 PM
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Yeah, the trailer actually looks kind of cool. I'm cautious not to get my hopes up, though...
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08-16-2004, 09:43 PM
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I have no idea how this film will be, but I have to see it this weekend if only to see Stellan Skaarsgard  |
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08-17-2004, 02:59 AM
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IIRC, they have to rease Schrader's version because of director's guild rules. It will be interesting to compare the two when the DVD hits.
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What rule is that?
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