Stephen King's "IT" remake has found a writer - Part 3

[The Shape]

Just got back. Loved the film. They really nailed it and I can't wait for Chapter 2. I'd say it's just about the best possible adaptation of this half of the novel, despite a few glaring flaws.

Bill killed it as Pennywise, but some of the CGI did take me out of several of his moments, which is weird because the film also had many incredible effects that were seemingly practical or just really well done. But the best Pennywise moments for me weren't any of the effects or jump scares, but when he was able to just speak (for more than just a line or two) using only his real voice and mannerisms. Couldn't take my eyes off him.

 

[Tanin]

I enjoyed the film. I think that Bill did an excellent job as Pennywise. Eddie stole this film for me. I just love everything he did.

 

[KaijuDude1992]

Just got back. Loved the film. They really nailed it and I can't wait for Chapter 2. I'd say it's just about the best possible adaptation of this half of the novel, despite a few glaring flaws.

Bill killed it as Pennywise, but some of the CGI did take me out of several of his moments, which is weird because the film also had many incredible effects that were seemingly practical or just really well done. But the best Pennywise moments for me weren't any of the effects or jump scares, but when he was able to just speak (for more than just a line or two) using only his real voice and mannerisms. Couldn't take my eyes off him.

See I agree with all of that. When he is actually interacting with the kids it's pretty damn effective, especially when he is mostly just talking. Other than the scene with Georgie and a few scenes towards the end it didn't seem like he had many lines which was quite surprising.

Hopefully, he gets more to do in the sequel though.

 

[JtheDreamer]

This film was meh.

I mean it's a great group of kids (even if they're guilty of over-acting at times), but I think their charisma covers up for a vanilla story and the struggle to coherently piece them together with things to do. I was surprised at just how much cursing there was and then pedophilia marinating in the background.

As for Pennywise - visually he was cool to look at, but the more you saw him the less scary he was. Something about the big forehead and Skaarsgard's whiny voice kind of made him a doofus and hard to take seriously from the standpoint of a menace.

Expected a lot more since this was a film that wasn't faced with the limitations of network television. It's too bad just about every mainstream horror flick out there is slave to abusing attempted jump scares.

 

[kickass]

I just have to address all these CGI concerns. I didn't find it took away from Pennywise in the least. He's already so non-human looking and animated that any CGI he's involved in looks to extend his character and freak factor rather than kill the reality of it. The damn thing can shape-shift into other people and creatures and is a master illusionist! So in any of the scenes where he may look "too CG", it just looks like another one of his tricks he's pulling out of a bag. I never found it distracting at all ¯\_(?)_/¯

 

[Stark Bauer]

This is actually not a bad cast, minus Molly Ringwald (who is way too old to play Bev) and Matt Damon, who is way too big a profile actor to play Ben. I also think Chadwick Boseman might be too handsome to be Mike, who is sort of an every man, fade into the woodwork, character.

Thank you Mr. Vandelay. I thought so too about Damon. In that case allow me to revise that casting with a very capable actor, you know him from Breaking Bad and Fargo, Jesse Plemons!

Chadwick isn't too handsome to play Mike, because Hollywood lol. A younger Denzel would be too handsome. He may be too expensive however. If that is the case:

Allow me to recast him with Sam Jones III from Smallville

Although I think they could get Bozeman, having a cast that are made up of lesser known character actors will retain the independent feel of the first movie

 

[BaelaTargaryen]

http://deadline.com/2017/09/stephen-king-it-home-again-box-office-1202163667/

UPDATED 11:32 PM: The studio that gave us A Nightmare on Elm Street and The Conjuring horror franchises has created another milestone for the genre with their feature adaptation of Stephen King’s It, which is now on course to slot the best opening day ever for an R-rated and horror title with an estimated $49.6M (easily smashing Deadpool‘s $47.3M) and the second best R-title three-day with $101M, behind Deadpool‘s $132.4M. In addition, for any post-summer title opening before November, It‘s weekend is higher than anything released prior in September or October.

Sure, New Line could have launched It during the first weekend of August to give the month the B.O. juice it needed, however, to earn a big three-day like this, it pays to have access to Imax screens, which PostTrak figures are repping 20% of all It admissions this weekend. However, Warner Bros. had all the Imax venues reserved for Dunkirk. In addition, nothing pairs well with autumn like a nice horror movie, and It is pulling in much more than fanboys, in fact it’s crossing over. While males over 25 are leading on PostTrak with a 31% turnout, other quads are just as strong with females under 25 (24%), males under 25 (23%), females 25+ (23%) (updated as of 11PM). Thirty-eight percent bought tickets because of the pic’s source material, while 43% attended because It is a horror movie. Overall CinemaScore is a B+, PostTrak has an 85% overall positive with a strong definite recommend of 64%. True, the Conjuring movies earned A- grades, but that’s unheard of for horror; and a B+ is equally strong for a horror pic like It.

 

[Stark Bauer]

Bingo. At the end of the day King is a great storyteller who understands character. People often say he's a master of terror, but he's really the master of character. So damn good.

Agreed.

Source: Stand By Me & The Shawshank Redemption

 

[Blitzkrieg]

If the (48-49) million Friday holds steady, 'IT's almost a lock to go over 100 million for the weekend.

Pre-Views+True Friday = [13.5+34.5] = 48 million

The pre-view to OD ratio is 3.55. That's better than the Paranormal Activity movies in-spite of the front-loadinng. 'IT' also did better than Annabelle Creation which managed a 3.4 Pre-View to OD multiplier. This is extremely good for such a huge opening.

Usually the Saturday increases from the True Friday (The Conjuring 1 & 2, Annabelle, Annabelle: Creation etc). In some cases it stays flat or just comes under the True Friday (PA3). So if 'IT' just about manages to stay flat from the true Friday figure, it's Saturday becomes (48-13.5)=34.5 million.

Friday+Saturday=(48+34.5)=82.5 million. 'IT' needs a further 17.5 million on Sunday which means 'IT'll hafta drop 49.3% from Saturday. That's basically in line with the drops for movies opening in the NFL opening weekend. Last year on the same weekend most movies dropped between (45-50)% on Sunday so 'IT' can easily achieve that much.

100 million on OW is very much in play atm and the final number will depend a lot on the severity of the Hurricane Irma. It remains to be seen how big of an impact it'll have on the new openers or holdovers. THR reported that Florida comes under the index when it comes to horror and industry insiders also seems to think that Irma won't have a crucial impact so as to make or break BO numbers. Either way, I think the OW is going down to the wire for 100 million photo finish. This is so exciting.

 

[Blitzkrieg]

UPDATED 11:32 PM: The studio that gave us A Nightmare on Elm Street and The Conjuring horror franchises has created another milestone for the genre with their feature adaptation of Stephen King’s It, which is now on course to slot the best opening day ever for an R-rated and horror title with an estimated $49.6M (easily smashing Deadpool‘s $47.3M) and the second best R-title three-day with $101M, behind Deadpool‘s $132.4M. In addition, for any post-summer title opening before November, It‘s weekend is higher than anything released prior in September or October.

Sure, New Line could have launched It during the first weekend of August to give the month the B.O. juice it needed, however, to earn a big three-day like this, it pays to have access to Imax screens, which PostTrak figures are repping 20% of all It admissions this weekend. However, Warner Bros. had all the Imax venues reserved for Dunkirk. In addition, nothing pairs well with autumn like a nice horror movie, and It is pulling in much more than fanboys, in fact it’s crossing over. While males over 25 are leading on PostTrak with a 31% turnout, other quads are just as strong with females under 25 (24%), males under 25 (23%), females 25+ (23%) (updated as of 11PM). Thirty-eight percent bought tickets because of the pic’s source material, while 43% attended because It is a horror movie. Overall CinemaScore is a B+, PostTrak has an 85% overall positive with a strong definite recommend of 64%. True, the Conjuring movies earned A- grades, but that’s unheard of for horror; and a B+ is equally strong for a horror pic like It.

Oh f**k, 49.6 million on OD. That's absolutely gigantic. So the True Friday is [49.6-13.5]=36.1 million. Even If Saturday decreases slightly from the True Friday, say 34 million the 2 day total becomes (49.6+34)=83.6 million. The movie will need just (100-83.6)=16.4 million Sunday. That requires a drop of 51.8% and that's looking very reasonable atm. This is also one of the worst case scenarios from my understanding so 100 million OW should happen. Hot f**king damn. This is monstrous.

 

[Stark Bauer]

Cast for IT CHAPTER I followed by my fancast for IT CHAPTER II. The ages of the characters in chapter 1 is 13 and chapter 2 is set 27-30 years later so the actors preferably should be or at least look like they are in their early 40s.

Eddie Kaspbrak:

Fred Savage, age 41

Ben Hanscom:

Jesse Plemons, age 29

Stanley Uris:

Tom Everett Scott, age 47

Bill Denbrough:

Colin Hanks, age 39

Richie Tozier:

Andy Samberg, age 39

 

[Stark Bauer]

(Continued)
Mike Hanlon:

This is a tough one to cast as I don't believe Chadwick Boseman looks like the young actor. For now, Erik LaRay Harvey, age unknown

Beverly Marsh:

Amy Adams, age perfect

 

[Voltron]

I consider Chris Pratt and Jessica Chastain could be worthwhile candidates for Ben and Bev respectively. If admittedly fairly expensive choices.

I'm trying to think of actors who would play the rest.

I like this casting.


Just came home from seeing this and it wasn't scary at all, but a few great horror imagery though Also it didn't help that I watched Bill Skarsgard's Kimmel interview so I kept thinking of the actor whenever Pennywise appeared.

 

[The Shape]

Spoiler-related question:

Spoiler

What we're Pennywise's final words before falling away and disappearing at the very end?

 

[samsnee]

I would cast David Dastmalchian as a grown up Richie.

 

[HammerDown]

Unbelievable tracking for this movie.

With Its $49M Start, Stephen King's 'It' Is An Old-Fashioned Monster Hit

With Stephen King’s It, Warner Bros. and its subsidiary New Line Cinema have pulled off a major feat of alchemy, combining the elements of IP, talent, brand name, timing and marketing in all the right ways to score a staggering $49 million opening on Friday (including $13.5 million in late Thursday previews).

That first-day result has already beaten the previous record of $48.5 million for a September opening that was set by Sony Pictures’ Hotel Transylvania 2 over a full three days in 2015.

Despite the challenges of a major hurricane shuttering hundreds of theaters in Florida, and the NFL's season-opening games cutting into the Sunday grosses, It will still almost certainly take in $100 million or more in its debut weekend. Even if the picture follows the traditional pattern of a robust Friday followed by a rapid theatrical burn off—and I don't think it will—it’s still hard to imagine it failing to reach the $100 million threshold by Sunday night, given the spectacular start.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robcain/2017/09/09/with-its-49m-start-stephen-kings-it-is-an-old-fashioned-monster-hit/

 

[terry78]

Spoiler-related question:

Spoiler

What we're Pennywise's final words before falling away and disappearing at the very end?

Spoiler

He was kinda spastic at that point but the last word he said was fear.

 

[Mandon Knight]

This film was meh.

I mean it's a great group of kids (even if they're guilty of over-acting at times), but I think their charisma covers up for a vanilla story and the struggle to coherently piece them together with things to do. I was surprised at just how much cursing there was and then pedophilia marinating in the background.

As for Pennywise - visually he was cool to look at, but the more you saw him the less scary he was. Something about the big forehead and Skaarsgard's whiny voice kind of made him a doofus and hard to take seriously from the standpoint of a menace.

Expected a lot more since this was a film that wasn't faced with the limitations of network television. It's too bad just about every mainstream horror flick out there is slave to abusing attempted jump scares.

They are aspects in the core story though, they are there in the novel, it's the evil of guilt & neglect the town has, as to this force of being, ignoring what is happening and the town being a manifestation of the plight of the loser's club. Everything they are afraid of exists in Derry and so that is why IT exists, it's an entity surviving on the downfall of the self perpetuating evil within itself.

 

[harlequinade]

https://***********/BoxOffice/status/906525646712602626

51 mln on Friday

 

[BaelaTargaryen]

https://***********/BoxOffice/status/906525646712602626

#IT earned an estimated $51.0M on opening day Friday. #ITMovie

 

[scarlet-witch]

That's an amazing number!

 

[Crosswind Ghost]

Better opening day than Spider-Man homecoming. This is wonderful.

 

[terry78]

Pretty damn good. And we still got two more weeks of possibly decent flicks with American Assassin, Mother! and Kingsman. September might bring in more cheddar than the summer months.

 

[Blitzkrieg]

'IT' smoked the OD of SM:H (50.7 million). Wowza

 

[Blitzkrieg]

Pretty damn good. And we still got two more weeks of possibly decent flicks with American Assassin, Mother! and Kingsman. September might bring in more cheddar than the summer months.

You forgot Ninjago yet again