'Exorcist' Prequel Loses 2nd Director

[TexasStooge]

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - "Exorcist: The Beginning," the bedeviled prequel to the 1973 horror hit "The Exorcist," has run into new problems, with director Paul Schrader no longer working on the film.

The Morgan Creek Prods./Warner Bros. project completed principal photography in February, and is scheduled for release early next year.

Schrader took over the project in preproduction when the late director John Frankenheimer became ill, but he and producers James G. Robinson and Guy McElwaine ran up against creative issues in post-production.

Sources said Schrader's name will probably remain on the completed film. No replacement director has been named.

Reuters/Hollywood Reporter