During the making of The Exorcist there were a lot of heated disagreements between the Williams over the amount of theological discussion between characters, writer Blatty wanted it all kept in because he felt that was the point of the book not the exorcism itself. Director Friedkin felt that leaving it all in would make the film long winded and boring. After the hopeless Exorcist 2 bombed Blatty made this, his own sequel that ignored the supernatural and focussed on intense theology conversations, and in the process was able to prove that Friedkin was 100% correct.
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