This is quite either quite bizarre or clever, money grabbing or just astute, it really depends on your point of view. William Peter Blatty, the author of the original The Exorcist is suing Morgan Creek for payment for an Exorcist sequel, despite already being paid. How could this be, well he’s been paid for Exorcist: The Beginning and is now filing for the payment against Dominion: A prequel to The Exorcist. From IMDB:
According to trade paper Hollywood Reporter, Blatty filed suit in Los Angeles Superior Court on Friday, claiming Morgan Creek Production guaranteed him a fee if they made a second sequel to the original 1973 horror classic. Blatty states he was paid $930,000 for the first sequel – Exorcist: The Beginning – last year, which stemmed back from an October 1996 agreement. Blatty alleges he hasn’t received any money regarding Dominion, which hit cinemas last month.
He’s supposedly suing for around $750,000. To be fair you really need to know what the agreement was and exactly why he’s suing, because just going by this story alone it sounds like he’s trying to pull a bit of a fast one since there was supposed to be only on prequel and this was never going to be released. However, it has been, so effectively they have made two movies, doesn’t he deserve the two payments?
