The Exorcist was greenlit for a first season. In February 2008, American playwright John Pielmeier expressed an interest in adapting William Peter Blatty's novel of the same name into a play and soon met with Blatty. He then began working on a script for the play, in which the first draft was completed in ten days. "The Exorcist" first premiered at the Geffen Playhouse, Los Angeles in 2012. A horror VR video game, called "The Exorcist: Legion VR", was published on Steam, Oculus and PlayStation in 2018 and was based on the events of "The Exorcist III". In November 2009, it was
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