Stephen King's "IT" remake has found a writer - Part 1

[Tanin]

 

[scarlet-witch]

I like Pennywise's new design too. He actually looks scary where as the 90's version really didn't.

I thought I wasn't going to like the 80's vs the 50's but it worked in the trailer.

 

[Boom]

I think Pennywise would be more effective if he looked like a normal and friendly clown, even when he's hunting the kids.

A scary-looking clown acting scary. Shocker.

 

[Nardz937]

I'm pretty hyped. Solid trailer - didn't show much but still enough.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

I'm 100% fine with them setting it in the eighties because it's not the 1980s like when the novel was written and if you want to set the film in a modern times when the kids are adults you have to set the kid portion in not the fifties that's one thing for sure. Also nostalgia is a big deal to people my age and it's just flat-out more marketable to set it in the eighties for that very reason.

 

[Zero_Effect]

I would think, more to do with the content of the slides I would have thought....

 

[scarlet-witch]

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[harlequinade]

Really great trailer!

 

[samsnee]

Depends on how you like your clowns to look I guess. Tim Curry's Pennywise looks like a normal clown that little kids might approach. The remake version is a nightmare version of a clown.

 

[Mandon Knight]

I think Pennywise would be more effective if he looked like a normal and friendly clown, even when he's hunting the kids.

A scary-looking clown acting scary. Shocker.

There's no such thing.

 

[David H.]

2Spooky

 

[Greens]

Still think the design leans too much in the "obvious creepy" direction. And no I'm not saying I wanted a redo of the 1990 film design-wise and I don't care how it was described in the book because you have to make something work as a film. And I think a more subtle creepy look is better than an obvious one, on film.

Agreed. Innocuous things can be way more creepy than, well, creepy things.

I hope some of the future marketing material includes stuff where Pennywise teeters on that edge of harmless and dangerous. Not another Clockwork Orange evil pose.

 

[David H.]

Tim Curry's Pennywise looks like a normal clown that little kids might approach.

Huh??

 

[Wildcard]

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Definitely my favorite shot from the trailer. This movie looks like it's going to be phenomenal. I can't wait.

 

[Boom]

There's no such thing.

If you have a fear of clowns in general, sure. But in that case you are screwed no matter what.

I don't find anything particularly scary about Ronald McDonald, for instance. But you better believe I'd be ****ting myself if I found him in a dark basement where he didn't belong.

Old Ronald should've been a template to go off of when designing the new Pennywise. Give me horror through context, not this tired "Look at how scary he is!" angle.

 

[DaRkVeNgeanCe]

I think Pennywise would be more effective if he looked like a normal and friendly clown, even when he's hunting the kids.

A scary-looking clown acting scary. Shocker.

I can totally relate to that sentiment, but isn't that exactly what we already saw with Curry's version? I'm glad they changed it up a bit and have faith that Bill's performance will have a sense of innocence to him to lure the children in, as well as unbridled terror to scare the daylights out of them.

 

[scarlet-witch]

There's no such thing as a non-creepy clown.

 

[BH/HHH]

That looks seriously amazing, I cannot wait for this.

Make that 3 films I will definitely be seeing at the cinema for the rest of 2017

 

[jmc]

I think I've grown out of horror films because the trailer did nothing for me.

 

[Wildcard]

There's no such thing as a non-creepy clown.

Yep. Even the harmless ones manage to still be creepy.

 

[Rorschach2012]

Looks great. The original is top 10 favorite movies for me due to how quotable it is and how good Tim Curry was

 

[Greens]

I think I've grown out of horror films because the trailer did nothing for me.

There wasn't anything really scary.

 

[OutOfBoose]

Looks like quality. Really got me interested.

 

[Boom]

There's no such thing as a non-creepy clown.

*Shrug* Different strokes I guess.

 

[FunkMiller]

This looks a lot better that the awful 90s attempt, certainly.

I'm liking the designs. Neibolt Street looks suitably nasty. The Losers Club all look the part. Loved the slideshow sequence. Georgie and the boat is very well done.

I'm very intrigued to see how well this translates the book. What, for instance, will going in to The Deadlights look like? Will it go so far as to show the [BLACKOUT]turtle[/BLACKOUT]? Will we actually see The Ritual Of Chud done properly?

More excited for this now that I was