The Exorcist III (1990) (Collector's Edition)

[JackKnightStarman]

This is the best news I've had today. So excited.

[#Darren]

Amazing News! This will be MINE!!!

[cakefactory]

Originally Posted by Todd Tomorrow

I think your first sentence is already missing the whole point of this release. This was never supposed to be a direct sequel to The Exorcist. It was supposed to be called Legion and be at best a loosely connected spin-off. It was the studio which turned this into a direct Exorcist sequel and this is now going to be reversed and put right. Therefore why should it look like The Exorcist and ape Friedkin's style ?

Ummm, isn't Blatty's '83 book a sequel to the Exorcist? I haven't read it, but I had been under the impression it was a sequel. Wikipedia (that ever-so-reliable site) has a fairly in-depth plot summary which seems to contain all the same connections as the movie ended up having. I think multiple characters from the first, especially the possessed Damian Karras, qualify it as more than a "loosely connected spinoff"? It's certainly a very different kind of plot, though, so I agree there's no reason it should have had a similar look.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legion_(Blatty_novel)

[Mobe1969]

Originally Posted by cakefactory

Ummm, isn't Blatty's '83 book a sequel to the Exorcist? I haven't read it, but I had been under the impression it was a sequel. Wikipedia (that ever-so-reliable site) has a fairly in-depth plot summary which seems to contain all the same connections as the movie ended up having. I think multiple characters from the first, especially the possessed Damian Karras, qualify it as more than a "loosely connected spinoff"? It's certainly a very different kind of plot, though, so I agree there's no reason it should have had a similar look.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legion_(Blatty_novel)

I read it years ago. It is IMHO a sequel. It was a book written by the author as a sequel, and as he created it, he can do whatever he wants with the next book. Just because hollywood wants to make people think that "Sequel" = "same sh## just more", like Alien and Aliens, it doesn't make the actual CREATORS work not a sequel.

Other great examples of this are the Koji Suzuki Ring cycle books. Ring, Spiral and Loop. Oddly Spiral got a movie adaptation, but it didn't stop the "lets do the same again with Ring 2 et al"... Also Clive Barker's The Hellbound Heart. He created Hellraiser. But he publishes The Scarlet Gospels and aholes have the utter nerve to whine about it, just because it didn't fit the same, tired movie sequel formula ("ooh we just want Pinhead to come along and tear someone naughty apart"). I even heard someone here call it "fan fiction".

[Rich65]

So looking forward to this, I love the first film but this one is my favorite.

[JimDiGriz]

Bizarre. Ive never seen this somehow (or any of the Exorcist sequels) and was just about to pick up Exorcist 3 because of all the good things Id heard about it.

Ill wait now!

[#Darren]

Originally Posted by JimDiGriz

Bizarre. Ive never seen this somehow (or any of the Exorcist sequels) and was just about to pick up Exorcist 3 because of all the good things Id heard about it.

Ill wait now!

Why wait? The theatrical cut is well respected and very good.

[dallywhitty]

Originally Posted by Mobe1969

Also Clive Barker's The Hellbound Heart. He created Hellraiser. But he publishes The Scarlet Gospels and aholes have the utter nerve to whine about it, just because it didn't fit the same, tired movie sequel formula ("ooh we just want Pinhead to come along and tear someone naughty apart"). I even heard someone here call it "fan fiction".

Sorry not sorry.

[dissention]

Originally Posted by Mobe1969

Also Clive Barker's The Hellbound Heart. He created Hellraiser. But he publishes The Scarlet Gospels and aholes have the utter nerve to whine about it, just because it didn't fit the same, tired movie sequel formula ("ooh we just want Pinhead to come along and tear someone naughty apart"). I even heard someone here call it "fan fiction".

Because it reads like bad fan fiction. It's his most undercooked, poorly edited work.

[dvdmike]

Originally Posted by zbinks

Warner Brothers doesn't have a problem director's cuts as long they are submitted to the MPAA and granted, at most, an 'R' rating by the MPAA.

True Romance and NBK say nope

[Marv Inc.]

Here's to hoping they remix 5.1 track for this release. As the dvd and current one on the blu-ray are a let down.

[dvdmike]

Originally Posted by Marv Inc.

Here's to hoping they remix 5.1 track for this release. As the dvd and current one on the blu-ray are a let down.

Only if it has the original mix

[The Debts]

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[Marv Inc.]

Originally Posted by dvdmike

Only if it has the original mix

I agree. The Laserdisc was the last time the film sounded good.

[Mobe1969]

Originally Posted by dissention

Because it reads like bad fan fiction. It's his most undercooked, poorly edited work.

Ah some more armchair experts to add to the ignore list.

I guess everyone would have been happier if Legion was say three children possess and 4 priests trying to exorcise them. Yawn.

[JackForrester]

Originally Posted by cakefactory

Ummm, isn't Blatty's '83 book a sequel to the Exorcist? I haven't read it, but I had been under the impression it was a sequel. Wikipedia (that ever-so-reliable site) has a fairly in-depth plot summary which seems to contain all the same connections as the movie ended up having. I think multiple characters from the first, especially the possessed Damian Karras, qualify it as more than a "loosely connected spinoff"? It's certainly a very different kind of plot, though, so I agree there's no reason it should have had a similar look.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legion_(Blatty_novel)

Trust me, it's a sequel. Kinderman, Father Dyer and Karras are important characters and the fact that Karras

[Show spoiler] was possessed by the Gemini killer is directly related to Regan's exorcism in the first book.

[The Fallen Deity]

All I can say in response to this news is holy s**t!

This will be mine!

[dissention]

Originally Posted by Mobe1969

Ah some more armchair experts to add to the ignore list.

You flatter me.

I guess everyone would have been happier if Legion was say three children possess and 4 priests trying to exorcise them. Yawn.

Legion is a great book as-is, I have no idea what you're on about.

[Rockercub]

Originally Posted by dissention

Legion is a great book as-is, I have no idea what you're on about.

Isn't it great to be insulted by someone who not only doesn't understand the insult (someone offering an opinion of a book is not an "armchair expert"), but doesn't even bother to check what you're referring to (The Scarlet Gospels, not Legion)?

[MartinScorsesefan]

This is fantastic news. I must admit I really like the theatrical cut, and will miss Miller and Williamson if their parts are completely cut. But I do want to see this in its original, intended form.