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JohnnyL:

--- Quote from: eazye on June 04, 2010, 01:23:58 AM ---Damn, interesting info about Beginning and Dominion man, never knew it went down that way.I preferred Dominion because Stelan's Father Merrin there, in my eyes, resembled Max Von Sydow's Merrin from the original more.In the Beginning he was the typical Hollywood protagonist.I can't say Beginning didn't keep me interested, but overall it just isn't the better version to me

I completely agree about the Heretic.And the more I think about Legion the more I admire it.I watched an interview yesterday with a man that did work on both the original and Legion and he said that the original version of Legion was shot by Blatty with just Brad Dourif, without Jason Miller and had a diff ending but the studio didn't like it and he had to re-shoot it, removing the now infamous head scene (parts of which could be seen in one of the Exorcist III trailers in youtube)



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 Interesting.  It seems like this franchise has a complicated history of having to deal with re-shoots/cuts.  I was happy that they made both versions of the prequel ( "Dominion" and "Exorcist: The Beginning") available for people to see on video.  Considering they did the same thing with "Exorcist" and "Exorcist: The Version You've Never Seen Before," I wonder if they'll ever consider releasing that alternate version to Exorcist III that you mentioned.  I really only watched "Exorcist II: The Heretic" all the way through, once.  But I personally have no interest in revisiting either version of that.  I'd love to check out any new/unreleased material from any of the other entries in the series though.  

eazye:
well I've heard Blatty plans to release the original version of Legion but there are problems with locating the actual footage in the studio, some even say it's lost.I hope that it surfaces someday in the near future, since Blatty's quite old.

And yeah, I was kind of interested in locating the re-cut version of the Heretic but I don't think it would save it, plus it exists only on VHS (from what I could gather)

Oh and here's the site I've read most of the stuff, it's pretty interesting

http://legion.theninthconfiguration.com/

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