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Paul Schrader wishes he hadn't made ‘Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist’.The 78-year-old director helmed the controversial 2005 horror flick - which takes place before the events of the 1973 original - and now Schrader has admitted he never should have tackled the project because he doesn’t think he was “really suited” for the film.In an interview with MovieWeb, ‘The Card Counter’ director said: “I shouldn't have done it. It was not something I was really suited for.”Schrader - who has written some of Hollywood’s best thrillers like ‘Taxi Driver’ and ‘Rolling Thunder’ - added if he was presented with the chance to direct ‘Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist’ today, he would have turned it down.He continued: “I thought I could pull it off, but if I had that opportunity again, I would say, 'I think I will stick to what I do best.'”Schrader was...

I can think of a few living filmmakers better suited to making an "Exorcist" movie than Paul Schrader. From the existential rage and self-loathing of Travis Bickle in "Taxi Driver," through the spiritual torment of Jesus in "The Last Temptation of Christ," to the doubting pastors of "Affliction" and "First Reformed," Schrader has spent much of his career exploring matters of the soul. As Roger Ebert once noted, "One thing [Schrader's] movies have in common is a very strong, visible sense of sin."

So who better to direct an "Exorcist" prequel after William Peter Blatty's flawed "The Exorcist III" marked a return to form for the series after the loopy metaphysics of John Boorman's "Exorcist II: The Heretic?" Surely if anyone could get to the bottom of Father Merrin's past exploits, it would be Schrader, right?

Problems arose because Schrader was only Morgan Creek's third pick to direct the movie.

When the news dropped about Warner Bros. deciding to shelve "Batgirl," "Scoob!: Holiday Haunt," and potentially other projects being produced for HBO Max, it struck a lot of us as a fairly unprecedented move. For "Batgirl" in particular, the size of the budget (a reported 90 million) and its connection to a popular franchise make it an even more startling that this decision has happened. The implications of using productions that artists spend years working on as mere tax loophole fodder sets a fairly depressing precedent for how studios can operate in the future.

However, this is not the first time a nearly completed film has been shelved by a studio. It's not even the first one shelved by Warner Bros. since the turn of the 21st Century. In fact, one shelved production also happened to connect to a very well-known franchise, and next year, we will see a new entry...

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Alexi Hawley has been tapped to do a rewrite on Exorcist: The Beginning for Morgan Creek. Hawley steps into the project to do a production polish for director Renny Harlin, who signed on to direct six weeks of reshoots after helmer Paul Schrader exited the prequel over creative differences, sources said. Warner Bros. Pictures is scheduled to release the film next year. Stellan Skarsgard, Gabriel Mann, Clara Bellar and Billy Crawford star from a script by William Wisher Jr. and Caleb Carr. In other Hawley news, the scribe has just signed with Innovative Artists. He recently sold his spec Chasing Shadows to Ascendant Pictures and the script Grimm to HSI Prods. His other credits include Nightbird for MGM and Cheyenne Enterprises, The Program for Intermedia and The Greatest Player That Never Lived for Miramax Films. He's additionally repped by Lisa Santos at Management and attorney Matt Johnson at Ziffren, Brittenham, Branca, Fischer, Gilbert-Lurie & Stiffelman.