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Hello and welcome to FillerWeen, where movies go after they die, in which I look at horror movies all throughout the month of October. As The Exorcist terrorized audiences in 1973, Warner Bros. became interested in making a follow-up to their surprise sleeper hit. The only issue was both William Peter Blatty and William Friedkin were not interested in making a sequel. This as well as the two had filed lawsuits at not only the studio, but each over profits, credits, and Blatty becoming barred from the first film’s post production. According to the film’s eventual producer Richard Lederer, the studio originally planned to make a low-budget sequel: basically, redoing the first movie with a central figure, a priest who is investigating, people who are involved with the exorcism, before the movie was to fade out on unused footage and camera angles from the ’73 movie, with an estimated budget of $3 million. Warner Bros. ended up commissioning playwright William Goodhart to write the