The Exorcist Season 3: What The Cancelled Show Would Have Been About
Here's where The Exorcist season 3 would have taken Marcus and Tomas. The original Exorcist is considered one of — if not the — scariest movie of all time, and it's almost easy to forget the impact it had upon viewers in 1973. It was an intense, visceral experience that is oft-imitated but rarely equaled, so of course, it kicked off a franchise. Neither director William Friedkin nor author William Peter Blatty were interested in a sequel, so Exorcist II: The Heretic was directed by John Boorman (Deliverance). Boorman felt the original was "repulsive" and wanted to helm a film that was warm and metaphysical instead of a scary movie. This proved to be a bad move as audiences laughed it off the screen in 1977, and Exorcist II is regarded as one of the worst sequels ever.
Blatty would himself take the reigns for 1990's The Exorcist III. The script was based on Blatty's book Legion and was more of a serial killer thriller than a horror movie, and didn't even feature an exorcism. The studio eventually forced him to add one in reshoots, but while it did modest business, it's considered a horror gem in its own right nowadays. The movie franchise came to an end with 2004's Exorcist: The Beginning, which suffered through such a difficult production it exists in two different versions; the theatrical cut from director Renny Harlin and Paul Schrader's Dominion: Prequel To The Exorcist, which was rejected by producers as «too cerebral.»
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Like the NBC Hannibal series, The Exorcist franchise was resurrected after years of disappointing movies with a Fox TV show. The Exorcist season 1 followed priests Tomas Ortega (Alfonso Herrera) and Marcus Keane (Ben Daniels) as
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