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EXORCIST:
THE BEGINNING

VISUAL AIDS
POSTERS AND COVER ART



THE BACK OF THE BOX
WHAT THE STUDIO WANTS YOU TO KNOW

    Having abandoned his faith in God, Father Merrin (Stellan Skarsgard) joins a British archaeological excavation in Kenya, where an inexplicably pristine Christian Byzantine church has been unearthed - looking as if it had been buried on the day it was completed. But beneath the church, something much older sleeps, waiting to be awoken. As madness swiftly decends upon the villagers and British soldiers, Merrin watches helplessly as atrocities are committed against in an innocent village - atrocities he had seen before and prayed never to see again. The blood of innocents flows freely on the East African plain, and the horror has only just begun. In the place where Evil was born, Merrin will finally see its true face.

STARRING:

Stellan Skarsgard: Father Merrin
Izabella Scorupco: Sarah
James D'Arcy: Father Francis

SCREENWRITER: Alexi Hawley

DIRECTOR: Renny Harlin

RUNNING TIME: 113 minutes

STUDIO: Warner Brothers

Average Hollywood Guys Rating: D -

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GIGGLES, GLOBES AND OSCARS
AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS

ACADEMY AWARDS

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THE GEEK BOX
TRIVIA TO IMPRESS YOUR EASILY IMPRESSED FRIENDS

• The original director of this film was John Frankenheimer, but he had to step down due to the fact that he was dying. He was replaced with a new director, Paul Schrader, who made the entire movie into a psychological thriller that execs said was "footage without any of the bloody violence the backers had wanted." So Schrader was fired after he had completed the film and replaced with the current director, Renny Harlin, who re-shot at least 90% of the movie with a rewritten script that was so bloody that the movie initially received a NC-17 rating. A few edit points later you are left with the final R rated version, however execs at Morgan Creek productions later released Schrader's version as Dominion: Prequel To The Exorcist a year later after a cold reception to this version.
• Originally Liam Neeson was supposed to play Father Merrin but he left the project for unknown reasons.
• Scenes and sound bytes from the original The Exorcist film were used featuring Linda Blair, however permission from Blair was never secured.

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