Legion Social Concerns

Legion Social Concerns

While The Exorcist (1971; see separate entry) presented an impressive array of its contemporary fears and hopes, the sequel, Legion, is more personal and more purely theological in its concerns, although still shaped by its time. Peter Blatty had at first not wanted to compose a sequel to his outstandingly successful book, instead writing a memoir of his life with his mother, I'// Tell Them I Remember You (1973). In 1977, the motion picture The Exorcist II: The Heretic came out, directed by John Boorman, without Blatty's participation—or approval of the results. Twelve years after the publication of The Exorcist, Blatty wrote, scripted, and directed his own follow-up, which was filmed in 1990 as The Exorcist III. On its own, Legion would not have been the cultural phenomenon that The Exorcist was; however, while an unconventional sequel in many ways, it does continue many of the theological issues of the...
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