Special Report: Nat Segaloff on The Exorcist Legacy

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🗓️ 31 August 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Mike talks with author Nat Segaloff about his latest book, The Exorcist Legacy: 50 Years of Fear, a comprehensive look at William Friedkin and William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist and all of the film's unholy progeny.

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0:00.0	Hold your ears, folks.
0:06.8	It's showtime.
0:08.6	People pay good money to see this movie.
0:10.9	When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.
0:17.3	Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:20.0	Shut it off. Turn it off.
0:22.6	Turn it off.
0:26.6	Hey folks, welcome to a special episode of The Projection Booth.
0:42.9	I'm your host Mike White.
0:43.9	On this episode, I am talking with our old friend Nat Saganoff.
0:48.3	He was on the show quite a few years ago when we're talking about Arthur Penn's
0:53.3	Night Moves.
0:55.8	He's back and he's talking about the Exorcist Legacy, 50 years of fear. It is his latest book all about, you guessed it,
1:03.1	The Exorcist and Its Legacy. Nat writes about all of the Exorcist films, except for the three
1:09.6	that have yet to be released, though he does talk
1:12.2	quite a bit about the new one that we just had a trailer for. Also talks about the original
1:18.4	three slash four slash five film. Oh man, what a mess. And that's a great thing about this book is he really puts a lot of effort into talking about all the different versions of these films.
1:33.9	You heard me quite a few years ago talking about Exorcists to the Heretic and the different versions of that.
1:39.9	He gets into that in this book as well as the whole ordeal around the fourth film,
1:47.1	which came out in two very distinct versions, one by Rennie Harlan and one by Paul Schrader.
1:52.9	You can't really get two more different directors there.
1:55.9	All right, be sure to pick up The Exorcist Legacy, 50 Years of Fear.
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