Idea: for a 'Dominion : A Watchable Prequel to The Exorcist'...

There’s no getting around it but both versions of the Exorcist prequel are pretty bad as are the prequel scenes in “The Exorcist 2 : The Heretic”.

The sad thing is there are some great performances and cinematography buried in the sand of all three.

My goal is to take from all three and from anything else that can plug the holes left by exorcising the terrible or conflictiing scenes and make something that is at least interesting enough to watch.

I’m a big fan of William Blatty’s writing and would love to pull together something in the same vein as his wonderful “The Ninth Configuration”.

The story would need a major overhaul, at the moment it’s too much like an African set remake of “The Keep”.

I would like to put a whole new soundtrack on there too (something like the very odd soundtrack to “The Exorcist”).

This will be my first project and it’s really early days so all ideas, input and help are welcome.

Let’s give Father Merrin something truly creepy to fight.

After taking a careful look at The Heretic there is virtually nothing (minus a few shots here and there) that I can use (locusts mostly) so there will be no Max Von Sydow in this version, sadly.

I'm basically stuck with Dominion and The Beginning to work from.

I need to get hold of some good quality hyena in action footage to cast out those hideous CGI creations in both versions.

I'm starting the process of breaking down both films into comparable chunks.

Dominion is going to be my main canvas with footage from the other film being added where it fits better.