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The real Exorcist story gets adapted
Filmstalker — ... . During the hunt various people claiming to be witnesses retell the events as they saw them, and the reporter uncovers something more than just the simple headline grabbing stories of the time. Bloody Disgusting have the scoop about the story, and I have to agree with their MrDisgusting, thank the universe for Vertigo Entertainment not following the rest of Hollywood on this one and being tempted to remake The Exorcist – mind you there will be a time soon where you can see that happening, some executive will be sitting there thinking about how modern effects could really ...

Circumventing That 'Exorcist' Remake
Get The Big Picture — ... Bloody Disgusting, one of the single most reliable sources of movie news on the web, reports that Vertigo Entertainment is filling a void in the exorcism genre by adapting the book The Real Story Behind The Exorcist: A Study of the Haunted Boy and Other True-Life Horror Legends from Around the Nation's Capital by Mark Opsasnick instead. Even though the title of the book references the classic 1973 film, Bloody Disgusting says it isn't even based on the newspaper articles Blatty used to write the purely fictional tale of Regan MacNeil. ...

The Real Story Behind The Exorcist To Become a Movie
Film Junk — ... According to Bloody Disgusting, Vertigo Entertainment (The Ring, The Grudge, Quarantine) has acquired the rights to Mark Opsasnick’s book The Real Story Behind The Exorcist, with the intention of adapting it for the big screen. The book documents Opsasnick’s investigation into a number of true life horror stories, including the possessed 13-year-old boy from whom a demon was said to have been exorcised back in 1949. William Peter Blatty’s book The Exorcist was based mainly on newspaper articles about the case, ...

Movie News Wrap Up: June 14, 2009
Screen Rant — ... Real Story Behind The Exorcist: A Study of the Haunted Boy and Other True-Life Horror Legends from Around the Nation’s Capital for the big screen. The book (and I presume the film) follows a reporter who attempts to track down the real person who inspired the Freidkin movie. The reporter discovers that there is more to the story than meets the eye. It sounds like it could be promising in a Mothman Prophecies sort of way. Source: Bloody Disgusting 2. Ed Neumeier, producer and writer of Paul ...