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Wanna be in the EXORCIST Prequel' Can you act Possessed' Are you African-American male between 10-14 years old'
Hey folks, Harry here... Who on Earth would you have play a young Father Merrin? Who is the young Max Von Sydow... or younger Max Von Sydow? I can't even begin to think of one. We haven't heard too much about the EXORCIST PREQUEL in a while, but it seems like they are ramping up production to move forward prior to the 'anticipated strikes'. Last I had heard about this project was about 11 months or so back when they were trying to involve Guillermo Del Toro, who was just busy with other projects at the time. The problem is this... How far are the filmmakers prepared to go with this? This should not be about morphing and computer tricks, but about the truly frightfully horrendous things that exist or pretend to exist in the world we live. I've seen all of the EXORCIST flicks, and imagine I will see this as well... My preference is that they make an amazingly scary film.... Somehow in this saccharine world we live in where folks are scared to use the word HORROR and instead say THRILLER... I have my doubts. Here ya go...
All Hell Set To Break Loose in Downtown LA
Producers of the prequel to the classic film The Exorcist hold open casting call
WHO: Hundreds upon hundreds of boys hoping to have a chance at fame.
WHAT: Open casting call for the lead role in the upcoming prequel to The Exorcist. Applicants should ideally be
African-American males between 10 and 14 years old.
Simultaneously and separately, Power 106 FM will be awarding fabulous prizes to people who give their best impression of someone who is possessed by the Devil. Power 106’s Joe Grande will be present to “exorcize” all contestants.
The prequel to The Exorcist, traces the story of Father Merrin back to his first encounter with the Devil during his missionary work in Africa. The film is scheduled to begin principal photography in Spring 2001 in the U.S., England and Africa.
WHEN: Wednesday, February 7 from 4:30 – 7:30pm
WHERE: Inner City Arts - 720 Kohler Street, Downtown Los Angeles
THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
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. . . I really hope this flick is good, but I don't know. . . Blatty has gone on records saying that this material he covered in Exorcist III, but I finally saw it last week and I have no idea what he's talking about. Than again, E III wasn't that great. It was fairly disjointed through the second and third acts and couldn't sem to decide if it wanted to be a psychological thriller, a police procedural or something else. I stringly suspect this flick was not Blatty's edit. A had a chat with Jason Miller once and even he said he didn't know what the heck was supposed to be going on. How about re-editing this one, WB? Mybe it'll make a bit more sense.
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1st one was great, 2nd one was SHIT,3rd was ok.They will probably just screw this one up also(thier on the right track if it's going to be rushed before strike)I dont know, it's just fucking stupid(I'll still probably go see it though)
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"i have a bad feeling about this" i dunno....the first one really scared the crap outta me. couldnt care less about the other 2, so who knows if this one will be any good....and i dont like the sound of the rushing because of the strike. so who knows...
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Feb 02, 2001 11:06:28 AM CST
I can see the catchy catchphrase now E minus 1 y'know like H20?
by sundown
I was a fly on the wall and heard the pitch: with Mel Gibson as the Australian Father Merrik (cause they decided to shy away fromt eh original stuff)with Taye Diggs as the tribal chief who has to enter the
'demon world' with Father Mel...er Merrik to rescue the childs soul from Isuzu and his cohorts Nissan and Honda. They decide to make them 'spectral beings' instead of 'demons' cause they don't want to pigeonhole the film with one religon. Also involved is Bruce Campbell as a thief who sneaks into the boys 'spectral portal' during the excorcism while trying to steal Merriks watch. They all end up int he demon world an dhave to escape. It ends when Merrek kills himself to save the boy (distance from the other films of course) and Campbell and Diggs get caught and butt raped alla Pulp Fiction. Campbell escapes but goes back to save Diggs...they kill the demons badda bing badda bang we have our film in 88 minutes or less. We'll clean up in Holland. Well that was the pitch. Hey its as possible as the OJ story! -
First off, I want to be honest by saying that I work at Morgan Creek, the production company that is making the Exorcist prequel.
We aim to make this a supernatural thriller in the vein of the original -- not a cheesy special effects schlockfest. Belive me, I think the second Exorcist was an embarrassing follow-up to the original. We're having Caleb Carr, who wrote the best-seller "The Alienist" do the re-write on the prequel. He'll have it completed in the next few weeks, so we're really hoping that we'll have something great.
I also wanted to get some feedback on and idea we're kicking around internally. Currently, the prequel is tentatively titled "Exorcist: Dominion." However, there is some discussion that we should change the title to "Exorcist 4:1" (biblical reference and it's the 4th in the series, yet the 1st time-wise). Also, we were kicking around the tagline "God Is Not Here" or maybe we could do a Latin version "Deus en Absentia" (I don't even know if this is correct. We'll make sure it is if we get a good response).
So there you go. We could really use your HONEST input. Thanks.
Greg Mielcarz
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Call me cynical, but I find it hard to believe that ANY studio would actually care about our input when in all actuallity your making a film to cash in on the Exorcist name and the popularity of it's re-release last year. Wasn't 2 and 3 enough, and do we need more remakes/sequels/prequels being hurled at audiences? What is so wrong with giving talented writers, directors, and producers the opportunities to make fresh, news, innovative material for the silver screen LIKE the original Exorcist? If you ask me, the only demon that needs driving out is the malificent concept of recyling that plagues Hollywood. (Ok..I'm gonna get off this soapbox now.)
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Feb 02, 2001 11:59:01 AM CST
gsm1224 so whats better Excorcist 4.1 or tminus one...did you re
by sundown
If you r who you say you r I understand how Hollywood works enough to knoe you have this cool property land in your lap but you don't want it to go the route of the Jaws/Rocky/BWP/insert name of horrid franchise that marched to straight to video oblivion well I'll give you the best advice you'll ever get from a nobody: create the plot and build your story on a strong hook for the love of God worry about the cute tags at the end. The first Halloween wasn't made by Carpenter sitting around thinking up a cool tagline like H20 -h20 was made that way and it SUCKED. Look at Harrys review of Valentine. For your project you need to find the next Fincher or whatever foreign stylistic film maker who can do dark moody horror and BUILD from the ground up. My pick would be Jean-Pierre Jeunet you can't blame him for Alien 4 any more than you can blame Fincher for 3 and he could shoot creepy..or even Shadow of the Vampires Elias Merhige. A credible star wouldn't hurt either. It don't have to be Leo DiCaprio but an Ed Harris or Gary Sinise wouldn't hurt. Otherwise it will feellike straight to video Urban Legend 2 nonsence. Be warned I TOLD YA SO! Oh and I do believe hollywood people watch this and ALL SITES for ideas if you don't you have WAAAY too much faith in something that warrants none!
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BTW, they must not be casting a 'young Father Merrin' if they are calling for an African-American.
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Merrin goes to the heart of Africa where he finds a boy who's possessed by some demon but can play basketball like nobody's business! So they gas bomb him and excise him (so they think) and put him in the cargo hold of a big oil tanker and ship him to the states to play for the LA Lakers. Needless to say, he breaks loose and terrorizes suburban Hollywood by spewing bile on some its most famous residents! But the sappy ending is when he defeats his inner demon and wins he Big Game against the Jesuits! How about casting that cute kid from the PeoplePC commercials? And when he turns into the demon, they can use um, Dennis Rodman! -
Everytime something cashing in on nostalgia or a fad comes out SOOOO many fanboys(and you know who you are) come out of the woodwork with comments basically along the lines of "Why Can't hollywood be original like when they made the movie they are copying now?!?" normally an expletive or TWELVE is added and sometimes the sentence really is just a fracture or something...my question is why can't we support hollywood? i'm pretty sure that 40 years ago producers did stuff for the same reason they do it now: tha CASH!! people were just too busy actually living lives instead of sitting in front of a little box letting their muscles atrophy....dude,if you are gonna hate on any story that involves hollywood "rehashing" something, don't read the dang story!!! but you want to go ahead and make your voice known so that way when opening weekend comes, and you go see it because you are a slave to hollywood, you'll get home and talk as loud as you can(or actually TYPE as loud as you can) about how you just wasted a lincoln and 3 washingtons...and then you'll talk about how 7 months ago you had already predicted it; but in reality, you want it to succeed. you need it to succeed. deep down in places you don't like to talk about at CTHD screenings and on AICN forums you need that movie on that screen. we live in a country that needs movies, and most of the people in this country don't care about or even know how to appreciate the movies we love, but in the end, if a studio can make the money off of Exorcist negative 1 or even exorcist 253 and turn around and use that money to finance a movie like snatch(which i still haven't seen) or something else that a studio wouldn't greenlight if it hadn't just raked in 400 million worldwide from some random movie that would probably be more appreciated by the trivial public(i personally love the trivial public) so if save the last dance can help me get my captain america(starring me) or a new punisher movie(starring me) i'm all the more happy! so there............this post took a wierd twist when i tried to quote a few good men, but it was quite enjoyable(for me at least)
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Excorcist -1 : The Version you dont want to see!!!
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I mean, Exorcist was all about the devil wanting Father Karris or whoever, right? I don't remember hearing that story anywhere, so if it's top quality, I'd love to see it, but when will it take place in the 40's? cool.
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FUCK! This really pisses me off! The Exorcist is a classic. How the hell did something like this get the OK? This is gonna suck ass!
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