The Exorcist (film series) search for the missing footage is "ongoing". An upcoming book titled "The Evolution Of William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist III: From Concept To Novel To Screen" by author Erik Kristopher Myers will reveal the whole story behind the film's development, and publish never-before-seen images, the original script, studio notes, various drafts of the story as it has evolved, and interviews with Blatty, Brad Dourif, Mark Kermode, John Carpenter, and many others associated with the film. Myers in an interview said that "The Exorcist III" "has sort of turned into horror genre’s equivalent to Orson Welles' "The Magnificent Ambersons", in that
The Exorcist: Italian Style during which the amulet is yet again lost and found, first by Dr. Schnautzer (the Mayor's physician) who briefly turns into an Hitler-esque figure and finally is swallowed by the Exorciccio himself. In the final scene the Mayor complains that the supernatural events so far occurred must have a diabolical origin; the Exorciccio (now possessed) rebukes putting in doubt the existence of the Devil, before vanishing in a plume of smoke. The Exorcist: Italian Style L'esorciccio (internationally released as The Exorcist: Italian Style and The Exorciccio literally "The Exor-Chuck, as 'Ciccio' is the Italian diminutive for 'Francesco' (Frankie), as Chuck/Chuckie