Then, almost a year later in June 2016, Bill Skarsgard was announced as Pennywise the Dancing Clown, replacing Will Poulter. Just two months after Fukunaga’s departure, Andy Muschietti ( Mama, 2013) was announced as his replacement, with rewrites being done by both him and Gary Dauberman. However, after years of silence, and some leaked concept art, in 2015, it was announced that Fukunaga had left the project due to creative differences, with the studio wanting to almost completely start over. IT was originally meant to be directed and written by acclaimed director Cary Fukunaga ( True Detective, 2014), with Will Poulter lined up to play Pennywise. The vast majority mistakenly condemning it as a remake, while others were worried by its troubled production. The new film was announced back in 2012, and right from the get go, skepticism over the very idea of it had swept through the internet. And of course, he just makes a such a goddamn fantastic bad guy.īut just recently, a new adaption of King’s horror epic has been released in theaters. While the rest of the performances were decent, Curry has always had a way of outshining anyone he shares a screen with. Still, the adaption gained became a cult hit, due in no small part to Tim Curry’s thrilling performance as Pennywise the Dancing Clown.
The story was there, but the heart, that was absent.
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While the TV movie didn’t get its story or characters wrong, per say, the entire thing felt more like reading Wikipedia’s synopsis of the novel, rather than reading the novel itself. But as I’m sure anyone who has read the novel is aware, the story of Stephen King’s IT has a certain tone and mystique to it that is just as important as the actual story and characters. The story and characters were mostly accurate, sure. But by the time I had finally finished it I wasn’t left in awe or terror, I was left…Underwhelmed. I was terrified of IT, but I fell in love with it at the same time.Įven after reading the book, finally gaining the courage to see the 1990 TV movie was still a daunting task. This was my first exposure to this particular genre. This was before I had seen The Goonies (1985), or any stories similar. The story of a group of kids going out and stopping this evil monster that eats children, instead of some fearless adult hero, was so new to me.
Reading certain excerpts from that book that may have been the first time I’ve ever felt truly disturbed. Now of course as I read more and more of IT, I was terrified at times. I managed to find that my Mom owned the book, and, like an idiot who touches a hot stove to see if it burns, I began to read the horror novel to see if it was scary. But for some reason, my curiosity still got the better of me. Now obviously none of this information helped calm my terror in any way. I learned that the clowns name was Pennywise, and that he liked the eat children by pulling them in the sewers. I learned that IT was based on a book by Stephen King. Over the course of time as I became older, I learned a lot about that movie that I couldn’t even bring myself to think about without curling up with fear. And it was the cover featuring the same image you see at the top of this article. However there was one specific VHS case that was something truly special, one that didn’t just fill me with dread as I walked away from it, but instead made me cry out in terror right there in the store. The cases for Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) and Hellraiser (1987) were two I always avoided after seeing them once. However the majority were just too intense for my precious mind to handle. Certain movies interested to me, I remember Pumpkinhead (1988) in particular was one of my favorites to look at for some reason. Being as young as I was, of course I was curious to occasionally walk by the section just to look at the case. However, conveniently along the walls right near the kids’ section, Blockbuster had setup their rows and rows of horror movies.
I first learned about Stephen King’s IT when I was about six-years-old, wandering around Blockbuster and looking for any VHS that had a dinosaur on the cover. The face you’re looking at above is the face that absolutely haunted my entire childhood, as I’m sure it did many others.
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