Helming the project is Sean Durkin, who directed last year’s haunting drama Martha Marcy May Marlene. His stab at the horrific source material (adapted from William Peter Blatty’s best-selling novel) will depict how a family deals with the unholy possession of their young daughter. When scientific and medical explanations fail, Father Damien Karras is called on to exorcise the demon spirit.

So far, the project has backing from Morgan Creek and will be produced by Roy Lee, who worked on The Departed and Quarantine. And although The Exorcist series has yet to be formally presented to networks, TV execs have reportedly expressed interest in meeting with Sean about his ghoulish project.

滬江娛樂快訊:《驅(qū)魔人》改編自威廉·彼得·布萊提(William Peter Blatty)所著的同名暢銷小說,德金這次對該恐怖素材進(jìn)行改編,故事將描述一個家庭如何應(yīng)對其小女兒惡魔附身的狀況。當(dāng)科學(xué)和醫(yī)學(xué)理論都無法給出解釋之后,小女孩的父親達(dá)米安·卡拉斯(Damien Karras)提出采用驅(qū)魔方式除掉魔靈。

至此該計劃已經(jīng)得到了摩根凱瑞(Morgan Creek)影業(yè)出品公司的支持,制片人將由羅伊-李(Roy Lee)擔(dān)任,后者曾參與影片《無間道風(fēng)云》(The Departed)和《隔離區(qū)》(Quarantine)的創(chuàng)作。盡管電視劇版《驅(qū)魔人》尚未正式交付于某個電視臺制作,不過據(jù)報道,諸多電視臺高管都已經(jīng)表達(dá)出要跟德金洽談這部驚悚劇集事宜的興趣。