Warning: This post contains spoilers from episode 5 of The Exorcist.
My name is Regan MacNeil.
Instead its asequel, with Geena Davis playing an older version of the famously possessed girl.
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It was a secret that I safeguarded from the connection, the studio, and the other actors.
The details may have been a lie, but the sentiment behind it was very real.
I knew we would never be able to do that if we ended the pilot on the Regan reveal.
Everything would immediately be re-contextualized.
The midpoint was always the game plan from the very beginning.
Thats when we were going to hit audiences with the reveal.
Chris MacNeil is now back in her daughters life.
Whats in store for her and Angela?
How does the rest of the Rance family react to this revelation?
She was Americas possessed girl.
It turns out grandma is actually alive, and she was a giant movie star in the 70s.
It really calls into question everything you thought you knew about this family and this woman.
Suddenly, a wedge has been driven between them.
Is the rest of the world aware of what happened to the MacNeils?
The story of Regan MacNeil was probably a pretty big news story back in the day.
Chris was fairly famous at the time.
It would be this sensational news story that you would never hear the end of.
Something really similar happened.
Thats going to manifest itself in some really surprising ways for this family.
[The show] is wholly depending on pretending thatExorcist IInever happened.
Were pretending it never happened.
We have to kind of avoid the issue of one movie, which isnt hard to do.
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