{"id":203,"date":"2009-07-18T18:19:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-18T18:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2009\/07\/the-exorcist-comes-to-blu-ray-sort-of\/"},"modified":"2009-07-18T18:19:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-18T18:19:00","slug":"the-exorcist-comes-to-blu-ray-sort-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2009\/07\/the-exorcist-comes-to-blu-ray-sort-of.html","title":{"rendered":"The Exorcist comes to Blu-Ray &#8230; sort of."},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_MwnH1kpbPRM\/SmJ-POmP3HI\/AAAAAAAADJM\/_aI0uUDdXz4\/s1600-h\/exorcist.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor:pointer;cursor:hand;width: 400px;height: 224px\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_MwnH1kpbPRM\/SmJ-POmP3HI\/AAAAAAAADJM\/_aI0uUDdXz4\/s400\/exorcist.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br><span style=\"font-family: georgia\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/news\/show\/Disc_Announcements\/Warner_Brothers\/WB_Announces_The_Exorcist:_The_Version_Youve_Never_Seen_for_Blu-ray\/3001\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">High-Def Digest<\/a> reports that Warner Brothers plans to release <i>The Exorcist: The Version You\u2019ve Never Seen<\/i> on Blu-Ray later this year. There is no official word yet on whether the disc will include the <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/did-persona-inspire-exorcist.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">original 1973 version<\/a> of the film, but given the announced title \u2014 which was given to the film when it was re-issued in 2000 with extra scenes and special effects \u2014 it doesn\u2019t seem likely.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>If the original version of the film <i>is<\/i> left off the disc, then that would be a pity, since the revised version, despite a few improvements, is basically inferior to the original version, thanks to some cheesy bits that I discussed here <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2006\/12\/exorcist-did-it-need-to-be-pumped-up.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">three years ago<\/a>. What\u2019s more, the original version of the film is long overdue for a remastering as it is; the only edition of it on DVD, at least in North America, is a single-layer disc produced for the film\u2019s 25th anniversary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/079073804X\/petertchatta\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">in 1998<\/a>. (The revised version was released on a dual-layer disc <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0000524CY\/petertchatta\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">in 2000<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>But an even bigger potential problem lurks in the shadows here. What if the Blu-Ray contains not the second version of the film that was released in 2000, but some brand-new <i>third<\/i> version? What if it really <i>is<\/i> a version that we\u2019ve never seen? There would certainly be a precedent for this: director William Friedkin caused <a href=\"http:\/\/hollywood-elsewhere.com\/2009\/03\/open_letter_to_1.php\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">a huge controversy<\/a> earlier this year when he produced a rather ugly-looking version of <i>The French Connection<\/i> (1971) for Blu-Ray, and there\u2019s no reason to assume he wouldn\u2019t do the same thing to <i>this<\/i> film. I guess we\u2019ll just have to wait and see.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High-Def Digest reports that Warner Brothers plans to release The Exorcist: The Version You\u2019ve Never Seen on Blu-Ray later this year. There is no official word yet on whether the disc will include the original 1973 version of the film, but given the announced title \u2014 which was given to the film when it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Exorcist comes to Blu-Ray ... sort of.<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"High-Def Digest reports that Warner Brothers plans to release The Exorcist: The Version You&#039;ve Never Seen on Blu-Ray later this year. 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