Screen Gems is developing a feature adaptation of Edwin F. Becker’s book True Haunting which The Call scribe Richard D’Ovidio is writing, Deadline reports.

True Haunting is the “terrifying true story” of the first televised exorcism on NBC in 1971. Millions around the country watched the program that was recorded here in Chicago. As the site notes, the NBC news segment was a success, the exorcism was not. Instead, it made things worse for the Becker family who lived there. Much worse.

The video below predates The Exorcist…