Time for an Exorcist remake?

I was not asking you if they were based on a true story. I was telling you.
You don't have to believe if the events are true or not. These events were reported, witnessed and documented by credible sourses from all sided of the spectrum. A film was made about both of them, therefore, as I said, The Exorcist and The Exorcism of Emilly Rose are based on true stories.

I now think that the film could actually be re-made. If you stick to the same story, but just used modern techniques and equipment and actors, even if it is set in the same date, it can work.
I think it's a bit of an insult to great names in the film industry to claim that they can not improve on an old film.
 
True regarding Emily Rose (Anneliese Michel). Not quite true regarding The Exorcist. The movie was based on the novel by William Peter Blatty which was written two years before the film was made. Blatty has said that he heard about a 1949 exorcism while he was at school (three years before Annelise Michel was born) regarding a little boy who was possessed - which may have influenced the novel he wrote some twenty years later. But to say that The Exorcist movie is based on a true story is stretching the truth a little. The movie is based purely on a work of fiction. Whether that work of fiction was based on a true story is debatable.
 
And I'm telling you anyone believes that crap deserves what they get for demonstrating such shocking gullibility. When it comes to the paranormal there is no reliable witness or sources - none, zero, nada, because the paranormal is an utter, utter fiction for the hard of thinking and idiots of this world. Neither film is based on a 'true' story, they're based on false, made-up fiction. Therefore it is completely wrong to claim that they're based on 'true' stories, when they're ipso facto based on real lies and real falsehooRAB. The fact that they're making a film based on those falsehooRAB doesn't make it a 'true' story, it simply perpetuates the lies and falsehooRAB.

But hey, believe what you want. There are millions who believe in their invisible friend in the sky, and they're just as stupid. There's no limit on stupidity. The world is overflowing with it, in fact, so why worry?

RegarRAB

Mark
 
No - don't think so. I think I fully understand the term "based on a true story".

That is why I agreed with you regarding the Emily Rose movie. But The Exorcist movie is based totally and completely on a novel, a piece of fiction, written by an author called William Peter Blatty. This is not up for debate - the credits at both the start and end of the movie indicate that the film is based on the book.

Now, I did give you credit that Blatty's book may (note may) have been (slightly) based on an exorcism that took place 22 years earlier which he heard about while he was at high school. But the film is not based on the exorcism from 1949 - the film is based on a book which is complete fiction.

Whether you want to argue that because the book may have been based on something that really happened, and because the film is an adaptation of the book, then that's up to you. But you are making yourself appear a little foolish by doing so. The screenplay for the movie was developed from the novel - and the novel is not a true story. No Regan McNeil, no Father Karras, no Father Merrin. They were all fictional creations who appeared in a book.

If the book itself was inspired by a true story - so be it. The film wasn't. Neither the director, producers or actors who appeared in that movie had ever heard of a little boy called Robbie who was supposedly exorcised in both Missouri and Maryland in 1949. No, all they had ever heard of was a book written by Blatty about a little girl from Georgetown who was exorcised in 1970. And none of your supposed true story witterings had any impact on the making of that movie.

I'm not discrediting you because I don't believe in God and the devil and exorcisms (like Mark A is). I know that exorcisms take place. I know that the 1949 exorcisms did take place - whether they achieved anything or not I don't care. I'm discrediting you because The Exorcist (the movie) was not based on the exorcisms which took place in 1949. Even if the book was.
 
My copy of the Exorcist by Blatty has a foreword by the author. Nowhere does he say it is based on a true story. The story had come from his hearing about exorcisms in the past and then deciding to do his own. Thus it is safe to say that The Exorcist was inspired by, rather than based upon.
 
A "re-imagining" would be welcomed. I'm a big fan of the original, but I'd like to see the story being told without all the crazy mash ups of the first. Good suggestion.



The proof is in the pudding tho isn't it? The "classics" they've so far remade have been far inferior to the originals. Like some other poster mentioned, if it ain't broke don't fix it. What could they possibly bring to the table that would improve on the original, tell me that.
 
NEVER. The film was perfect, and still imo pisses on all horror films made today. In fact maybe with halloween, texas chainsaw ,evil dead,There has never been a better horror film made.:eek:
 
"Inspired by" might be a better description in the case of Blatty's book. He also wrote the screenplay for The Exorcist and worked closely with Bill Friedkin. There was a book called William Peter Blatty on The Exorcist that came out at around the same time as the film. It contained stuff about how he came to write the book, and IIRC he did mention being inspired by a newspaper article about the exorcism of a young boy. The book also contained the first draft of the screenplay for the film (running at about 4 hours!) and the screenplay that was filmed. He was in fact a screen writer first and thought he'd have a go at a novel. He wrote the Inspector Clouseau film A Shot In The Dark. He wrote and directed Exorcist III Legion, which is a great film - very under-rated and a proper sequel to The Exorcist, unlike that Heretic fiasco!

This is an interesting bit from Wikipedia:

Hmm. I might have to watch that one again now I know William Blatty liked it.
 
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