Recent investigative research by freelance journalist Mark Opsasnick indicates that Blatty's novel was based on an actual 1949 exorcism of a young boy from Cottage City, Maryland, whom Opsasnick refers to using the pseudonyms Robbie Mannheim and Roland Doe.

The film is based on Blatty's novel, The Ninth Configuration ( 1978 ) which was itself a reworking of an earlier version of the novel, first published in 1966 as Twinkle, Twinkle, " Killer " Kane!

William Peter Blatty's novel Twinkle, Twinkle, " Killer " Kane was first published in 1966.

The film was based on William Peter Blatty's own novel, Legion

Ironically, Warner Bros. wound up initially releasing the film in selected markets, despite Blatty's misgivings.

He appeared as part of an ensemble cast in William Peter Blatty's 1978 film, The Ninth Configuration.

Regan Teresa MacNeil is a fictional character from William Peter Blatty's horror novel and film The Exorcist and its first sequel, Exorcist II: The Heretic.

A reference to Peter Stumpp is also in William Peter Blatty's book, The Exorcist.

The screenplay was by Maxwell Anderson, George Abbott, Del Andrews, C. Gardner Sullivan, with uncredited work by Walter Anthony and Milestone.

Its screenplay was written by Dave Sheasby and the show was directed by David Hunter.

MGM noticed the video was performing well since " trendy twenty-somethings were throwing Showgirls irony parties, laughing sardonically at the implausibly poor screenplay and shrieking with horror at the aerobic sexual encounters.

Trumbo was publicly given credit for two blockbuster films: Otto Preminger made public that Trumbo wrote the screenplay for the smash hit, Exodus, and Kirk Douglas publicly announced that Trumbo was the screenwriter of Spartacus.

Years after his death, he would be honored with a statue in front of the Avalon Theater on Main Street, where he was depicted writing a screenplay in a bathtub.

" In Mexico he wrote 30 scripts under pseudonyms, such as Gun Crazy ( 1950 ), based on a short story by MacKinlay Kantor, who was the front for the screenplay.

With the support of Otto Preminger, Trumbo was credited for his screenplay for the 1960 film Exodus, adapted from the novel by Leon Uris.

In the screenplay by Anthony Hinds, the main character's name was changed from Doctor Syn to Parson Blyss to avoid rights problems with Disney's upcoming film version, and Captain Cleggs screenplay follows the novel Doctor Syn and the screenplay of the 1937 film closely with the exception of a tightening of the plot.

In January 2004, it was announced that the screenplay he wrote for his novels Ilium and Olympos would be made into a film by Digital Domain and Barnet Bain Films, with Simmons acting as executive producer.

On November 4, 2005, the Los Angeles Times reported that Rohrabacher was paid 23, 000 dollars for a thirty year old screen play of his ". At issue was whether the producer paid him for the screenplay or for the introductions to congressional and federal officials.

I wrote the screenplay and no studio wanted to make it " because, according to Carpenter, " it was too violent, too scary, too weird.

Neal Moritz was to produce and Ken Nolan was to write the screenplay which would combine an original story for Plissken with the story from the 1981 movie, although Carpenter has hinted that the film might be a prequel.

The finished version of the film was significantly different from the original screenplay drafts as Bruce Lee revised much of the script himself, including having written and directed the film's opening Shaolin Monastery fight sequence.

Rumble Fish was based on the novel of the same name by S. E. Hinton, who also co-wrote the screenplay.

Most critics felt that the screenplay was poorly written, not funny, and the dramatic material was unconvincing and unbelievable.

When Williams was offered the screenplay for Jack he said he would only agree to do it if Coppola agreed to sign on as director.

In 1974, he wrote the screenplay for The Great Gatsby, and in 1979, he was executive producer for The Black Stallion.

The former — whose screenplay was written by the blacklisted Dalton Trumbo, disguised by a front — features a bank holdup sequence shown in an unbroken take over three minutes long that proved widely influential.

This was done by Hans Beimler, a native of Mexico City, who together with friend Robert Hewitt Wolfe later wrote a screenplay based on La Malinche called The Serpent and the Eagle.

From that, one of them ( each would later recall it was the other ) came up with replicant and it was inserted into Hampton Fancher's screenplay.

In an essay supporting the selection of The Rock, Roger Ebert, who was strongly critical of most of Bay's later films, gave the film a 3 1 / 2 out of four stars, calling it " an action picture that rises to the top of the genre because of a literate, witty screenplay and skilled craftsmanship in the direction and special effects.

Budd Schulberg later published a novel simply titled Waterfront that was much closer to his original screenplay than the version that was released on-screen.

Seven years later, a musical film version with a screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner and a score by Lerner and Frederick Loewe won the Academy Award for Best Picture.

The screenplay itself went through many re-writes, and at one point featured an ending where Freder would have flown to the stars ; this plot element later became the basis for Lang's Woman in the Moon.

The later screenplay draft by Cyril Hume renamed the film Forbidden Planet, because this was believed to have greater box-office appeal.

Despite the fact Wouk had already worked the material from the novel into a stage play, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, which premiered on Broadway in January 1954 and ran for a year, Herman Wouk's attempt at writing the screenplay was considered " a disaster " by director Edward Dmytryk, and he was replaced by Stanley Roberts, who later quit when told to cut the film down to two hours.

Feldman sent the screenplay to Harrison Ford's agent Phil Gersh, who contacted the producer four days later and advised him his client was willing to commit to the film.

* 1998, the author John Dufresne published a short story, " Freezer Jesus ", which he later adapted as a screenplay.

Years later, Herzog remembered the volatile actor and knew that he was the only possible man who could play the mad Aguirre, and he sent Kinski a copy of the screenplay.

Despite their intense mutual dislike, and fights over the screenplay, My Little Chickadee was a moderate box office success, but the film outgrossed Fields's previous film, You Can't Cheat an Honest Man ( 1939 ), and the later The Bank Dick ( 1940 ).

Two years later, she received another nomination for her screenplay for The North Star, the only original screenplay of her career.

She wrote the screenplay for the film version that appeared two years later.

Preston Sturges was hired to write the screenplay around late November 1933, but was removed from the project a week later because he hadn't made sufficient progress.

Stone later amalgamated a third screenplay, Playing Hurt by Daniel Pyne, into the project.

Stanley saw action in the siege of Jalalabad, and the events surrounding his escape from the country, along with his wounded camera man, Immo Horn, later formed the basis of the screenplay Addicted to Danger, by Sebastian Junger.

Ten years later McMurtry resurrected the screenplay as a full-length novel, which became a bestseller and won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Cronyn bought the screenplay What Nancy Wanted from Norma Barzman — later blacklisted with her husband Ben Barzman — with the idea of producing the film and starring Tandy.

However, he sold the screenplay to RKO which later filmed it as The Locket ( 1946 ).

In 1983, while considering it only a hobby, Kelley began writing a screenplay, a legal thriller, which was optioned in 1986 and later became the Judd Nelson feature film From the Hip in 1987.

From 1936 to 1939, Cooper pursued a screenwriting career in Hollywood ( his major credits are the screenplay for Universal's 1939 Son of Frankenstein and contributions to the Mr. Moto mystery series starring Peter Lorre ) but continued to work in radio, advertising and, later, television.

* Dialogues des carmélites ( Dialogues of the Carmelites ) 1949 — screenplay and later libretto adaptation of Gertrud von Le Fort's Song at the Scaffold