EXORCISING HOLLYWOOD
When Travis Crawford last interviewed director Paul Schrader for Filmmaker in Fall 2002 he was looking forward to beginning work on a prequel to the 1973 film The Exorcist. “It will be nice to do something with a larger tableaux from a quality script,” said Schrader. “I don’t feel like I’m doing something beneath me. It’s been 20 years since Cat People, and it will be refreshing to work the big arena again.”
Little did he know what was in store for him.
In the LA Weekly Scott Foundas details the behind-the-scenes debacle that led to Schrader’s eventual replacement by Renny Harlin at the helm of Exorcist: The Beginning.
