According to Vulture: Writer-Director Sean Durkin (Martha Marcy May Marlene) has been tapped to tackle William Peter Blatty's novel.. The new adaptation will be in the form of a 10-episode mini-series for television..
Unlike the 1973 film, Sean Durkin’s version of “The Exorcist”: follows the events leading up to a demonic possession and especially the after-effects of how a family copes with it: In short, not well, and when medical and psychiatric explanations fail, the desperate family turns to the church, with Father Damien Karras finally brought in to attempt the exorcism.
The Ring producer Roy Lee is overseeing the project with Morgan Creek.. “The Exorcist” TV series won’t be formally shopped to networks for another two weeks..
(Source: B-D.com)
