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By now, you are probably at least somewhat familiar with the story: After determining that Paul "Taxi Driver" Schrader's version of The Exorcist was not sufficiently stocked with cheap scares, dirty undead children covered in fresh grave-dirt, and creepy, cursed videotapes, studio Morgan Creek decided to reshoot the entire movie under the auspices of director Renny "Cutthroat Island" Harlin, whose version promptly bombed at the box office. But in the feel-good Hollywood story of the year, Schrader's version will finally see the light of day, where it will be crushed in its limited-release run against the new Star Wars movie. This will allow Morgan Creek's execs to forget all of their bold talk about owning their fuck-up:

Morgan Creek, the company that produced both films, acknowledged the strangeness of the situation — and that the company might have made an expensive mistake. "Right now, we're saying, 'We could have been wrong,' " said Brian Robinson, senior vice president of worldwide marketing. "That takes a big company to admit." [...]


"If ['Dominion'] takes off and everybody goes crazy and it's the 'Exorcist' everybody wanted to see — because a lot of people didn't like the Renny Harlin version — then we'll have to say, 'We had it all along and didn't need to shoot the Renny Harlin version.' "

Of course, in the unlikely event that the old-new Exorcist prequel does some good business, all executives involved will have the phrase "We could have been wrong" tattooed on their foreheads and be hanged from the Hollywood sign, where their eyes will be picked at by vultures until the movie's release on DVD.