Courtesy of DavisDVD and captainhowdy.com...

Fresh on the heels of recent E:TB prequel news, long-time CaptainHowdy.com supporter Greg Mielcarz from Morgan Creek has dropped an exclusive bombshell on the Exorcist Fan Forums!

After ready through our forum and seeing how eager Exorcist fans were for a Legion v2 DVD feature Blatty's original cut, Greg shot Mr. Blatty an email.

Two hours later Greg got a call from an enthusiastic Blatty: "YESS!!!!!!!!!"

Footage will be dug up, restored and die-hard Exorcist fans will get to see Legion how Blatty intended. The Director's Cut Legion DVD IS HAPPENING, it would seem! Obviously this is breaking news and will develop over the coming days/weeks.

Holy crap... file this one under "never thought it would happen".

Great news!

Hell yeah! This is one that I will FOR SURE double-dip on.

Oh god oh god oh god oh god oh god oh god! Best freakin' news I've heard all year!

I own the 1st Exorcist. How good is 3 and should I see 2 first?

Well, someone in this particular thread might be biased, like me...
I like Exorcist III MUCH more than The Exorcist. MUCH more.

Exorcist 2 is a disaster on many levels, but has some kind of interesting stuff in it. Exorcist III is much better than 2 and is a pretty good horror thriller taken on its own, but is very hard to compare to the first Exorcist.

Thanks,.. guess III will be a rental for me. Probably will not even watch II.

Agreed.

I really enjoyed Exorcist III and think it's underrated. While the current transfer looks good, I am always open to a potentially better looking transfer --- and a director's cut --- makes this a sure purchase for me.

Mystic... Exorcist III is the true sequel to The Exorcist, it was based on the book Legion, which was the follow up to The Exorcist... Legion is a good book and the film sticks to a good deal of it, but obviously, Blatty had another vision for the film...

Exorcist II on the other hand, is a disaster, best to pretend that it doesn't exist...

I agree about Exorcist 2 being just flat out terrible. Good new with the directors cut of Exorcist 3, glad I didn't buy it yet.

Awesome news - extremely looking forward to this one!

Considering that up until now Exorcist 3 has been a mainstay in the WalMart $5.50 bin, this is even more hugely surprising.

Hopefully it will be available for rental, as I would want to rent this one first.

Should be interesting!

great news! like the previous poster said, III is probably the best of the trilogy. i like III's subtlty more than the first one's in your face approach. i really hope this happens.

Great News! Can't wait.

Probably gonna get flamed here but what the hey........

If we get a Director's Cut of E3 (hopefully, it'll get renamed back to Legion), there could be little or no connection to the Exorcist.

Legion was never intended to be a sequel to the Exorcist, other that to use a couple of the same characters. It was the studios who insisted on marketing it as an Exorcist sequel in order to cash in on the original.

Blatty did intend to do a sort of trilogy but the three films were:

The Exorcist

The Ninth Configuration

Legion

I think Blatty said in one of his commentaries that the thread that connects them is the question of the existence of God and belief in the afterlife.

Of the three, The Ninth Configuration has alway been my favourite and definitely needs a special edition. I am looking forward to a DC of Legion though.

AFAIK; Blatty had nothing to do with Exorcist II but I could be wrong

Couldn't agree more

I'll definitely be buying the Director's Cut!

Me too. Not that I think the original is bad, I do own the SE and TVYNS, but just like part 3 a little more.

I haven't seen part 2 in a long, long time and can't remember anything about it. I didn't pick it up because pretty much everyone says it sucked, but I just might rent it out of curiosity.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099528/alternateversions


Alternate Versions for
Exorcist III, The (1990)


Some European prints are rumored to include a scene depicting the violent killing of a priest, removed from the US version after unsuccessful sneak previews. A shot from this scene, showing the beheaded priest sitting on a bench and holding his own head in his lap, can be seen in the French publicity stills.


A scene where a character has different heads quickly edited in a strobbing effect appears in a trailer for the film, but not in the film itself.

Just got around to buying 3 because I figured I wouldn't like it but will have to do the double dip.Good movie.

Not sure why you'd get flamed for that. I don't care if it's got anything to do with The Exorcist, really. Even in its present form, it's quite far removed from the whole thing, when you think about it. Except for the couple of characters.

The current disc is supposed to be a special edition, sort of. It sure could use a better transfer though, it looks pretty poor.

The trailer for EXORCIST 2 is really cool though.
The music they use and the scenes they show make it look like a very epic movie.
This is one time where the trailer is better than the movie.