Stephen King's "IT" remake has found a writer - Part 4

[Broseph44]

Tends to usually do it.....

And exactly, he ripped his arm off and then Georgie became even more scared and then he pulled him down for a meal.

 

[danoyse]

It seemed that way but then he killed Georgie pretty quickly and he didn't seem that scared until after he got his arm ripped off.

And imagine the ****ing terror going through that child's mind in those few seconds.

He preyed on a nervous child, and it got him exactly what he wanted.

 

[KaijuDude1992]

So in just three days It is already the second highest grossing Stephen King adaptation unadjusted. By the end of its run It's going to be highest grossing King adaptation adjusted and will likely be the highest grossing horror film ever unadjusted. Hell even adjusted its going to be in the top three highest grossing horror films of all time and the second biggest R-rated horror film of all time.

Just insanely, monumental numbers all around.

 

[danoyse]

And I imagine sales of the book have had a healthy boost with the success of the movie as well. Stephen King must be very happy right now.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Succeeding as a horror film and actually being a horror film are two different things.

I said it fails as a horror film to me. It is a poorly made horror movie. It succeeds as a coming of age adventure film, and very much so.

 

[Joe Von Zombie]

I pretty much agree with Darth on this one. I think it's a solid coming of age movie, but the horror aspect is the worst part of it which is at no fault of Skarsgard. I think he did great with the material he was given, it's the actual sequences that fail.

 

[KaijuDude1992]

And I imagine sales of the book have had a healthy boost with the success of the movie as well. Stephen King must be very happy right now.

It's honestly about time a Stephen King adaptation was one of the highest grossing movies of all time. I always found it strange that one of the most well known horror authors in the world has only had one film break $100 million which was The Green Mile. Of course that's unadjusted, but still even it's adjusted gross isn't enough to put it into the 200 movies of all time.

 

[Primal Slayer]

The director talks his ideas for the sequel"

Director Andy Muschietti (best known for Mama, a film King himself named in EW as one of his favorites of 2013) says the second film will still feature the younger kids we’ve come to know and love. They turn up as memories of the adult versions of the Losers Club.

Andy Muschietti stresses that the kid elements in Chapter Two won’t just be brief throwbacks, but integral to the events that unfold for the adults. “They’re a very big part of the action,” he says.

“My idea of Mike in the second movie is quite darker from the book,” the filmmaker said. “I want to make his character the one pivotal character who brings them all together, but staying in Derry took a toll with him. I want him to be a junkie actually. A librarian junkie. When the second movie starts, he’s a wreck.”

“He’s not just the collector of knowledge of what Pennywise has been doing in Derry. He will bear the role of trying to figure out how to defeat him. The only way he can do that is to take drugs and alter his mind.”

“It resonates with what the kids do when they go to the smokehouse in the Barrens,” Andy Muschietti says. “By inhaling these fumes from the fire they have visions of It, and the origin of It, and the falling fire in the sky that crashed into Derry millions of years ago. We’ve brought that to Mike, by the end of those 30 years Mike has figured out the Ritual of Chüd.”

http://ew.com/movies/2017/09/11/stephen-king-it-sequel-details/

While it's interesting way to get Mike part of his story back from Ben, making the only minority character into a junkie...idk...

 

[Dyson]

The director talks his ideas for the sequel"











http://ew.com/movies/2017/09/11/stephen-king-it-sequel-details/

While it's interesting way to get Mike part of his story back from Ben, making the only minority character into a junkie...idk...

I’m actually quite encouraged by a few of the ideas Andy Muschietti has for Chapter Two. I love that Mike will indeed stay behind in Derry and become the town librarian. I’m intrigued by the idea that Mike uses drugs to help him deal with the fact that he has forced him to remember everything that happened in Chapter One but I love that he may introduce the Ritual of Chud.

That said, I hope these new flashback scenes with the child actors will be scenes set just after the events of Chapter One as all 7 kids are growing up fast and by the time Muschietti and company shoot Chapter Two next summer, they will look 15 – 16 years old.

Also, sounds like Muschietti does, in fact, want Jessica Chastain for Beverly. In the end, I hope we get an incredible cast for Chapter Two.

 

[terry78]

The director talks his ideas for the sequel"











http://ew.com/movies/2017/09/11/stephen-king-it-sequel-details/

While it's interesting way to get Mike part of his story back from Ben, making the only minority character into a junkie...idk...

Yeah, that already doesn't sit right with me to be honest. If anyone Ben would become the addict. And it's not PC whining, it just seems a little odd making the black dude have that quirk.

 

[Doctor Jones]

I'm sure with the success of this movie, studios will be dusting off their King properties from development hell.

I am crossing my fingers for The Stand. I'd like to see Josh Boone get a chance to direct it.

 

[king666]

Except when they are overused, or used in the place of real scares and tension. Jump-scares shouldn't be the only thing that's remotely scary in a horror film, but many times that's what we get, ala Paranormal Activity.

Yeah, I agree. I'm not "anti-jump scares" (I think they're fun when done right), but still, imagery has a bigger effect on me. The bit with [blackout]Ben in the library and the old lady (Pennywise) in the back[/blackout] was incredibly sppoky and was imo the scariest scene in the movie. Kinda like that scene from Babadook with the old lady watching TV and ****ing Babadook is just there watching her. That's legit nightmare stuff.

 

[writer0327]

I'm sure with the success of this movie, studios will be dusting off their King properties from development hell.

I am crossing my fingers for The Stand. I'd like to see Josh Boone get a chance to direct it.

All King properties ain't created equal. The Dark Tower just got adapted and was a train wreck.

Needful Things could work if they did a straight forward adaptation.

 

[roach]

Aren't the doing some sort of King universe tv show?

 

[markjoedelonge]

How do you not cast Amy Adams as adult Bev? She looks and sounds so much like her.

Bring that "Lois Lane" comment full circle. t:

 

[Stark Bauer]

I'm predicting IT ends up with over $350 million at the domestic box office. It might break it past the $400 million barrier. Unprecedented for a horror film. Will become the highest grossing horror movie of all time.

 

[Stark Bauer]

Mike will use mind altering drugs in the sequel:






Andy would like for Jessica Chastain to play Bev in sequel.





http://www.joblo.com/movie-news/andy-muschietti-spills-details-on-darker-second-chapter-of-it-181

Reposting this for the new thread:

http://forums.superherohype.com/showpost.php?p=35685231&postcount=686


Hope they do casting sessions to see if any other actresses/actors would be interested (I am sure they are now lol) in a role for chapter 2. Amy Adams I am looking at you.

 

[Stark Bauer]

That isn't the point, like at all. How many great horror movies are only frighting to kids?

Poltergeist. And Spy Kids.

 

[Stark Bauer]

I am going off the movie itself, what I saw. Which is the only thing I can judge it by. How the horror plays out. It isn't just a bunch of obvious jump scares, Pennywise is something you want to see. He doesn't incite dread, he incites excitement. What is he going to do next? He is kind of like the Joker, just less creepy. My crowd was never "shocked" there was no Conjuring 2 reactions. But God did we all laugh, a lot. As a horror movie, it fails imo. But I still really liked it for being the coming of age flick it succeed at.

This aspect though has me worried about the sequel. I don't know if this is going to work without the kids.

Right. that's because you are an AUDIENCE MEMBER. You aren't IN THE ACTUAL MOVIE. If there was an actual clown inside your house, who has supernatural/paranormal abilities, to be able to transform into YOUR worst fear, and IT WANTS TO KILL YOU. You wouldn't be saying "I want to see IT because he brings me excitement."

 

[Stark Bauer]

The concept of 'being scared' is a personal matter of life experience, emotional connection with the material and our own triggers, people 'scare' easily, some less so.

Right. I don't find torture porn (Hostel, Human Centipede) to be scary. I find them disgusting and I wouldn't waste money on that trash.

I find psychological horror such as the original Ringu to be scary.

Freddy, Jason, Chucky, and now Pennywise are very much like cartoon characters to most horror buffs. We don't find them scary, but sure, if they WERE REAL, we wouldn't think they are like Mickey Mouse or anything.

A lot of times it takes the right director to nail the atmosphere...James Wan, Guillermo Del Toro, Alexandre Aja (The Hills Have Eyes remake), Jennifer Kent (The Babadook), Mike Flanagan (Oculus), Fede Alvarez (Don't Breathe) are up there.

 

[Stark Bauer]

They way I see it, the jump scares and Pennywise are there for the kids and teens; they are fun for adults, too. The real horror for adults, though, is the peripheral and more insidious evils: racism, toxic masculinity, bullying, child sexual abuse, Munchausen by proxy, and the kind of apathetic indifference that leads adults to turn a blind eye to those forms of evil and suffering. If you weren't horrified by the leper, for example, you were sickened by Eddie's mother making her son believe he was ill. If a headless victim of the Ironworks tragedy wasn't scary, the blurry grinning woman in the background did the trick. Blood in the sink? No match for Beverly's perverted father. Burned hands in a doorway and zombie children not scary enough? The lady talking to the kids on television is acting weird and isn't that pharmacist a bit too friendly with little girls? Henry's dad, the cop, is scary. Adults bully kids who become bullies themselves. That's the fertilizer It needs to grow children with fears It can eat with relish. That's the stuff of nightmares.

Nah, still not scary to me. Therefore, NOT a horror movie.

Spoiler

kidding

 

[Stark Bauer]

It's honestly about time a Stephen King adaptation was one of the highest grossing movies of all time. I always found it strange that one of the most well known horror authors in the world has only had one film break $100 million which was The Green Mile. Of course that's unadjusted, but still even it's adjusted gross isn't enough to put it into the 200 movies of all time.

The Shawshank Redemption was a box office bomb and became a cult classic after it came to home video...

 

[Stark Bauer]

Yeah, I agree. I'm not "anti-jump scares" (I think they're fun when done right), but still, imagery has a bigger effect on me. The bit with [blackout]Ben in the library and the old lady (Pennywise) in the back[/blackout] was incredibly sppoky and was imo the scariest scene in the movie. Kinda like that scene from Babadook with the old lady watching TV and ****ing Babadook is just there watching her. That's legit nightmare stuff.

This. And the scene in the demo PT...look behind you. I SAID LOOK BEHIND YOU.

@ 22:35 then 24:30

especially 40:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI6qi1JVXak

 

[The Endless]

I said it fails as a horror film to me. It is a poorly made horror movie. It succeeds as a coming of age adventure film, and very much so.

I kinda agree with this. I don't think it fails as a horror, some moments were genuinely horrifying and I was kinda surprised how far it went.

But yea it didn't seem like an actual horror movie. It was more like a R rated Goonies lol.

 

[FunkMiller]

This. And the scene in the demo PT...look behind you. I SAID LOOK BEHIND YOU.

@ 22:35 then 24:30

especially 40:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI6qi1JVXak

One of the biggest wastes of an amazing concept in video game history - no, in entertainment history. That demo was incredible. The game would have been incredible. The scariest hour or so of gameplay I've ever done... and I did Resi 7 in VR.