William Peter Blatty wrote the screenplay, as well as the novel on which it is based. He was also the producer of the film.
William Peter Blatty.
The Exorcist (1973) was produced by William Peter and Blatty Noel Marshall.
William Peter Blatty
William Peter Blatty
The Exorcist is by William Paul Blatty. The mass market paperback has 385 pages. The 1971 paperback had 340 pages.
William Peter Blatty won for adapting his best-selling novel, also titled "The Exorcist."
US author William Peter Blatty (The Exorcist) was 89 years old when he died on January 12, 2017 (birthdate: January 7, 1928).
The movie The Exorcist was based on the novel of the same name by William Peter Blatty. The novel is about the real-life attempt of a priest to exorcise a demon from a young boy, who was around the age Reagan was in the movie.However, it remains unknown whether the boy was actually possessed, or whether he was faking it, or mentally ill.
The movie the Exorcist was based on a book of the same name by William Peter Blatty. The book is based on the real-life attempt of a priest to exorcise a demon from a young boy (the boy was around the same age Reagan was in the movie). Whether or not the real-life case was a true occurrence of demonic possession, or just a matter of misdiagnosed mental illness, is debatable.See the Related Links below for information about the "true" story that inspired the Exorcist. You can try Googling "the Exorcist true story" to find even more of them.
William Peter died in 1853.
William Peter was born in 1788.
The ExorcistThe movie The Exorcist is based on the novel of the same name by William Peter Blatty. The book is supposedly based on the true story of a boy who was possessed. But the so-called "true story" may have been a hoax, or a case of misdiagnosed mental illness. It's said that the novel is based loosely on a supposedly genuine exorcism that occurred in 1949.