I've been campaigning like anything for restoring these changes. For 27 years. I wrote a book about it, well, a portion of the book was devoted to these scenes and why they should have been in the movie.

With forty years to think about it a few little changes were inevitable -- plus one new character in a totally new very spooky scene. A short critical essay on Blatty's work can be found in S. This is the version I would like to be remembered for.

He is also featured in the upcoming 2013 Smoke And Mirrors anthology featuring the teleplay "Hell Hospital" and the treatment "Faith". The novel The Exorcist written in 1971 is his magnum opus; he also penned the subsequent screenplay version of the film for which he won an Academy Award.