Fox orders pilot for cool, modern Exorcist TV show
Variety is reporting that Fox has ordered a pilot for a new series based on William Blatty’s The Exorcist, the book (and film) that begat about a billion religious horror thrillers in the ’70s and ’80s, while singlehandedly squandering much of the world’s dwindling supplies of split pea soup. The new show is being described as “a modern reinvention” of the tale of an old priest and a young priest battling a mysterious demonic intrusion, a description that we can only hope means the demon Pazuzu will now be hiding in the evil-festooned ridges and gullies of the internet (in a sort of “FearDotCom,” if you will.)