TV networks have shown interest in an 'Exorcist' drama series currently shopped around by Morgan Creek.
- Aug 8, 2013
AceShowbiz - Forty years after it was first unleashed to the big screen, "The Exorcist" may haunt television viewers. Deadline learns that Morgan Creek, which has the rights to the property, is currently shopping a drama series based on William Peter Blatty's novel which was turned into a feature film in 1973.
Jeremy Slater is reportedly writing the script for the potential new series and TV networks, both cable and broadcast, have shown interest in it. Roy Lee, who has executive produced "The Departed" and "The Ring", will serve as executive producer for the horror show.
In 2012, Morgan Creek and Lee pitched an "Exorcist" limited series with Sean Durkin as the writer, but Slater's work is said to be a brand new take on the material.
William Peter Blatty's book "The Exorcist" is inspired by the 1949 exorcism case of Roland Doe which occurred in the late 1940s. The film deals with the demonic possession of a young girl and her mother's desperate attempts to win back her daughter through an exorcism conducted by two priests.
Starring Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Jason Miller, Lee J. Cobb and Linda Blair, the supernatural film earned ten Academy Award nominations and won two of them, for Best Sound Mixing and Best Adapted Screenplay. It went to be named the scariest film of all time by Entertainment Weekly in 1999.
