He also received a shared screenplay credit on Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist, which received high praise from William Peter Blatty ( the author / screenwriter of The Exorcist ).

The case would inspire author William Peter Blatty to write a novel about exorcism, titled The Exorcist.

William Peter Blatty ( the author / screenwriter of The Exorcist ) said that watching Exorcist: The Beginning was his " most humiliating professional experience.

The critical reaction to Schrader's version is only slightly better than Harlin's version, but Schrader's version also received high praise from William Peter Blatty ( the author / screenwriter of The Exorcist ).

While William Peter Blatty, the author and screenwriter of The Exorcist, described Dominion as " a handsome, classy, elegant piece of work ", critical reaction to the film has nonetheless been mixed to negative.

This comedy-thriller is written and directed by novelist William Peter Blatty ( author of The Exorcist ).

" Blatty and Friedkin would later collaborate on the film version of The Exorcist ( 1973 ), with Blatty as screenwriter / producer and Friedkin as director, before Blatty returned to Twinkle, Twinkle, " Killer " Kane.

Blatty himself appears briefly near the start of the film as an army doctor, and would later cast Jason Miller, Ed Flanders, Scott Wilson, and Nicol Williamson in his next film as writer / director, The Exorcist III ( 1990 ).

Exorcist writer / producer William Peter Blatty and director William Friedkin both had no desire to involve themselves in an Exorcist sequel.

Playwright William Goodhart was commissioned to write the screenplay, titled The Heretic, and based it around the theories of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ( the Jesuit paleontologist / archaeologist who inspired the character of Father Merrin when Blatty wrote The Exorcist ).

The production company, Morgan Creek Productions / Warner Bros. disliked the resulting film and had large segments re-shot under director Renny Harlin ; it was released as Exorcist: The Beginning in 2004.

* The Church teaches that the Minor Orders ( Cleric / Tonsure, Doorkeeper, Reader, Exorcist, Acolyte and Subdeacon ) are intended primarily to assist the candidate in his own spiritual growth and life and that the Major Orders ( Deacon, Priest, and Bishop ) are intended primarily to assist the Christian Community.

More recently he appeared as Lord Louis Mountbatten in Lord Mountbatten-The Last Viceroy ( 1985 ); the dual roles of Dr. Worley / The Nome King in Return To Oz ( 1985 ); Father Morning in The Exorcist III ( 1990 ); Badger in the 1996 movie adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows ; and Cogliostro in the 1997 movie adaptation of Todd McFarlane's comic book, Spawn.

William Friedkin ( born August 29, 1935 ) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter best known for directing The French Connection in 1971 and The Exorcist in 1973 ; for the former, he won the Academy Award for Best Director.

" The film was written by Carpenter and Debra Hill with Carpenter admitting that the music was inspired by both Dario Argento's Suspiria ( which also influenced the films surreal color scheme ) and William Friedkin's The Exorcist.

The Exorcist is a novel of supernatural suspense by William Peter Blatty, published by Harper & Row in 1971.

* Robbie Mannheim, a. k. a. Roland Doe, alleged demonically possessed boy who inspired William Peter Blatty to write the fictionalized book, The Exorcist

* William Peter Blatty – The Exorcist

During the album's pre-production, Gabriel was contacted by filmmaker William Friedkin ( at the time enjoying success with The Exorcist ), about a possible film project after Friedkin read Gabriel's short story on the sleeve of the Genesis Live album.

Exorcist II: The Heretic is a 1977 horror film and the sequel to William Friedkin's 1973 film The Exorcist, directed by John Boorman from a screenplay by William Goodhart and starring Linda Blair, Richard Burton, Louise Fletcher, Max von Sydow, James Earl Jones, Ned Beatty and Kitty Winn.

William Friedkin, director of The Exorcist, saw half an hour of the film, " I was at Technicolor and a guy said ‘ We just finished a print of Exorcist II, do you wanna have a look at it ?’ And I looked at half an hour of it and I thought it was as bad as seeing a traffic accident in the street.

* Regan MacNeil ( Linda Blair ), the 12-year-old girl possessed by Pazuzu in William Friedkin's The Exorcist ( film ), exhibits many strange, supernatural powers, including levitation.

As Blake Edwards and future The Exorcist creator William Peter Blatty began work on the script, they decided the story would be a good vehicle for the Clouseau character, and rewrote the script around the new premise.

William Peter Blatty was inspired by a newspaper article about this case to write his novel The Exorcist.

This was the case on which William Peter Blatty based his novel The Exorcist.

The rite of conferral continues in societies that use the 1962 form of the Roman Rite, such as the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter, or earlier forms, such as the Society of St. Pius V. Some believe that attainment of the position of Acolyte in post-Council practices implies ordination to the minor orders which used to be below it, such as Exorcist and Porter, although this has not been officially defined ( although Canon Law section 1009 does specifically state that the only " orders are the episcopate, the priesthood and the diaconate ").

* It is quoted in William Peter Blatty's novel, The Exorcist.

* It is the title for William Peter Blatty's second novel following The Exorcist.

* William Peter Blatty-Author of The Exorcist

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

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.

On October 31, 2010, Cemetery Dance published a special omnibus edition of The Exorcist and its sequel Legion, signed by Blatty ( ISBN 978-1587672118 ).

In lieu of filming the novel, Blatty decided to rewrite it: " After The Exorcist, I decided that I could develop the story a great deal.

Blatty then developed The Ninth Configuration into a screenplay for Columbia Pictures ( Blatty did not want to work with Warner Bros. as he had sued that studio over his proper share of profits from The Exorcist ).

Blatty retained Jason Miller, who had played Father Karras in The Exorcist, for The Ninth Configuration.

For the central role of Colonel Kane, Blatty cast Stacy Keach ( another contender for the part of Father Karras in The Exorcist ).

In his review of The Exorcist, Ebert said it was " stupefying " that the film received a rating of " R " from the MPAA instead of an " X " ( suitable only for adults ).

* The Exorcist — commonly said to have been banned during the video nasty era, but in fact Warner Brothers never submitted it for classification.

Author Bob McCabe's book The Exorcist: Out of the Shadows contains a chapter on the film in which Linda Blair said the movie " was one of the big disappointments of my career ," and John Boorman confessed that " The sin I committed was not giving the audience what it wanted in terms of horror ... There's this wild beast out there which is the audience.

That said, Exorcist II: The Heretic is almost universally despised by fans of the series and is also ignored by Exorcist III: Legion.

Club said that " Skarsgård a quietly mesmerizing performance ," and that " Schrader's movie isn't particularly scary, but it's more substantive than The Exorcist and its sequels, because it takes demon possession out of head-spinning literalism and considers evil as something more real and commonplace.

The film received poor reviews, including one from Vincent Canby at the New York Times, who said of it, " The soul of the movie is that of " The Exorcist " instantly recycled.