{"id":2043,"date":"2016-08-09T13:57:58","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T13:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=2043"},"modified":"2016-08-09T13:57:58","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T13:57:58","slug":"why-exorcist-crew-met-with-stony-church-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/why-exorcist-crew-met-with-stony-church-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"Why &#8216;Exorcist&#8217; Crew Met With &#8216;Stony&#8217; Church Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>From the Hollywood Reporter:<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn3.thr.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/scale_crop_768_433\/2016\/08\/the_exorcist_tca_panel_with_geena_davis_getty_h_2016.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;They can be really hounded and chased by members of the public, so they keep to themselves,&quot; said one EP of real-life exorcists at the Television Critics Association press tour.\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>During the development process, the executive producers of the new drama [Fox&#8217;s <em>The Exorcist<\/em>] starring Geena Davis reached out to the Catholic church in an effort to hear from real-life exorcists. But it turns out the church wasn&#8217;t eager to talk with the producers.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>&#8220;We\u00a0were kind of met with a stony silence,&#8221; executive producer and director Rupert Wyatt revealed at a Television Critics Association summer press tour panel Monday. [Finally they got a priest to talk.]<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>&#8220;He made it clear that it wasn&#8217;t necessarily a lack of willing[ness] to talk to us&#8230;but\u00a0it really comes down to protecting the exorcists,&#8221; Wyatt explained. &#8220;They don&#8217;t like to show their faces; they don&#8217;t like to break their cover, and that comes from the fact that there are many, many potential cases than have nothing to do with what is ostensibly possession.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><em> <strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/live-feed\/exorcist-producers-consulted-catholic-church-918159\">[For Full Story<\/a><\/strong><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2016\/06\/04\/tropical-rains-possible-tornadoes-threaten-half-us.html?intcmp=hpbt1\"><em><strong>]<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><em> <strong>[Return to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiritdaily.com\/\">www.spiritdaily.com]<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\"><a href=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/Michael%20H%20Brown\/Documents\/My%20Webs\/index.htm\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spiritdaily.com\/angellily.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times;\"><em>Pray always for purity and love<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: large;\">+++<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"uncategorized\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1470751078\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Why &#8216;Exorcist&#8217; Crew Met With &#8216;Stony&#8217; Church Silence\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Hollywood Reporter: During the development process, the executive producers of the new drama [Fox&#8217;s The Exorcist] starring Geena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2043","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}