EXORCIST II The Heretic (7/26/76) Boorman 100p Blue & Pink Revised Draft +COA

  

EXORCIST II: The Heretic (7/26/76) Boorman 100p Blue & Pink Revised Draft +COA! Guaranteed Vintage and Original as issued. Comes with COA from the Museum of Mom and Pop Culture! Stiff Production Covers - 100 Blue and Pink Revised pages + Unusual 8 x 10 Color Still. Written by William Goodhart and Rospo Pallenberg - Directed by John Boorman.

OVERALL CONDITION: Fine to Very Fine! Exorcist II: The Heretic is a 1977 American supernatural science fiction horror film directed by John Boorman and written by William Goodhart. It is the second installment in The Exorcist film series and the sequel to The Exorcist (1973), and stars Linda Blair, Richard Burton, Louise Fletcher, Max von Sydow, Kitty Winn, Paul Henreid, and James Earl Jones.

It was the last film to feature veteran actor Paul Henreid before his death in 1992. Set four years after the previous film, the film centers on the now 16-year-old Regan MacNeil, who is still recovering from her previous demonic possession. STORYLINE: A teenage girl once possessed by a demon finds that it still lurks within her.

Meanwhile, a priest investigates the death of the girl's exorcist. Playwright William Goodhart was commissioned to write the screenplay, titled The Heretic; he based it around the theories of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (the Jesuit paleontologist/archaeologist who had inspired the character of Father Merrin in Blatty's novel The Exorcist).

Goodhart's screenplay took a more metaphysical and intellectual approach compared with the original film. Here, the battle between good and evil would center on human consciousness-with the specific idea that, within the framework of Catholic theology, human consciousnesses could be brought together as one through technology, although this would also result in conflict between those who sought good and evil.

British filmmaker John Boorman signed on to direct, stating that "the idea of making a metaphysical thriller greatly appealed to my psyche". Years earlier, Boorman had been considered by Warner Bros.

As a possible director for the original film, but he turned the opportunity down as he found the story "rather repulsive". However, he was intrigued with the idea of directing a sequel, explaining that every film has to struggle to find a connection with its audience. Here I saw the chance to make an extremely ambitious film without having to spend the time developing this connection. I could make assumptions and then take the audience on a very adventurous cinematic journey. Linda Blair agreed to reprise her role of Regan MacNeil for Exorcist II, but refused to wear demon make-up (a double was used for the brief flashback scenes depicting a demonic Regan).

Max von Sydow was persuaded by Boorman to reprise the role of Father Merrin; he was initially reluctant to return because of his concerns over the negative impact of the first Exorcist film. Although Boorman wanted to film the majority of the film on location (including Ethiopia and The Vatican), many of his plans proved to be impossible, resulting in key exterior scenes having to be filmed at the Warner Bros. Pauline Kael preferred Boorman's sequel to the original, writing in The New Yorker that Exorcist II had more visual magic than a dozen movies. " Kim Newman commented that "Exorcist II doesn't work in all sorts of ways... However, like Ennio Morricone's mix of tribal and liturgical music, it does manage to be very interesting.

" Director Martin Scorsese asserted, "The picture asks: Does great goodness bring upon itself great evil? This goes back to the Book of Job; it's God testing the good. In this sense, Regan (Linda Blair) is a modern-day saint - like Ingrid Bergman in Europa'51, and in a way, like Charlie in Mean Streets. I like the first Exorcist, because of the Catholic guilt I have, and because it scared the hell out of me; but The Heretic surpasses it.

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