Stephen King's "IT" remake has found a writer

[Octoberist]

Is Melissa McCarthy in this?

2012 humor?

 

[ThePhantasm]

Ghostbuster's remake joke.

 

[Travesty]

Sorry, maybe I should just stick to making threads about steak or Sprite.

 

[Black Narcissus]

All this sounds more disappointing after seeing Fukunaga's Beasts of No Nation. A horror film in the hands of that man. The tracking shots alone would be so hnnngh.

 

[Sawyer]

Sorry, maybe I should just stick to making threads about steak or Sprite.

You wish you were relevant enough to pull those threads off!

 

[:eek:]

IT Emphasizes Pennywise's Most Terrifying Virtue

Posted: December 15, 2015, 09:17:50
Section: Film » It

Here is a comment from Andy Muschietti who substituted Cary Fukunaga for the remake if IT.

 

[:eek:]

Will Poulter on Pennywise

Posted: December 27, 2015, 18:46:43
Section: Film » It

Here's a little update on whether Will Poulter is still involved with IT, from this month's Empire Magazine. Sounds to me like he's out.

 

[Brother Jack]

This movie is screwed.

 

[Marvolo]

I hope this whole thing falls apart. Damn the studio for killing Cary's version.

 

[Sawyer]

I'll take Cary giving us some off-the-wall casting like Poulter over the studio casting someone the message boards would deem to be perfect for the part any day of the week.

 

[Marvolo]

It's probably best for Poulter's career that he walked away.

 

[Black Narcissus]

TD and Beasts of No Nation.

I hope rocketman has a good time tho. lol

 

[Rocketman]

I hope rocketman has a good time tho. lol

A good time in the sense that between It and The Stand and The Dark Tower, every time their respective threads are updated, it's some crisis situation where everything goes back to square one. You have to admit it's hilarious.

King's my favorite writer, and these are the three projects I want to see most. But if the studios can't make up their minds on what they want and they keep dancing around a plan every six months, I say to hell with them. We're not getting any younger.

 

[Rocketman]

I'm keeping my fingers crossed on:

- Cell
- Pet Sematary
- Gerald's Game
- Lisey's Story

Last I heard, these were all films on the fast track to be made, but then years went by and nothing materialized, and Cell doesn't have a distributer.

On the plus side, nobody's racing to make James Patterson or Dean Koontz adaptations.

 

[Rowsdower!]

I'll take Cary giving us some off-the-wall casting like Poulter over the studio casting someone the message boards would deem to be perfect for the part any day of the week.

Hugo Weevings four Penywise!!!!11

 

[Boom]

Idris Elba, Tom Hardy, Ryan Gosling, Benedict Cumberbatch, or Daniel Day-Lewis!

 

[Marvolo]

I'm keeping my fingers crossed on:

- Cell
- Pet Sematary
- Gerald's Game
- Lisey's Story

Last I heard, these were all films on the fast track to be made, but then years went by and nothing materialized, and Cell doesn't have a distributer.

On the plus side, nobody's racing to make James Patterson or Dean Koontz adaptations.

Im surprised Pet Semetary didnt get a remake a few years ago when Insidious, Insidious 2, Conjuring, and Sinister were coming out.

Its an easy story to adapt and could be done with a low budget.

 

[Travesty]

Idris Elba, Tom Hardy, Ryan Gosling, Benedict Cumberbatch, or Daniel Day-Lewis!

What about Melissa McCarthy?

 

[Sawyer]

If you love Melissa McCarthy so much, why don't you marry her, Travesty?

 

[Travesty]

 

[Rocketman]

Im surprised Pet Semetary didnt get a remake a few years ago when Insidious, Insidious 2, Conjuring, and Sinister were coming out.

Its an easy story to adapt and could be done with a low budget.

Last time it was in development a few years ago, they had Clooney in the lead role, and he was producing. I'm pretty sure Soderbergh was executive producing or something. Could've been cool.

 

[Marvolo]

Last time it was in development a few years ago, they had Clooney in the lead role, and he was producing. I'm pretty sure Soderbergh was executive producing or something. Could've been cool.

That would have been very interesting. Well, whenever they do get around to making another Pet Semetary film I hope they dont half ass it. Thats one of my favorite stories by King.

 

[Rocketman]

That would have been very interesting. Well, whenever they do get around to making another Pet Semetary film I hope they dont half ass it. Thats one of my favorite stories by King.

Yeah, that and The Shining are his most personal/intimate. The way King describes his process of writing Pet Sematary is fascinating. His goal was to basically scare himself half to death, and it started with imagining if his son Owen had actually been hit by a semi during a real-life close call... That's stuff that most fathers would never entertain to think about.

I think King is at his best when he gets personal and explores the death of family and loved ones. His best interpretation of horror is the stuff that happens in real life - the ghosts and ghouls are just the popcorn.

I don't think Pennywise is the scariest part of It, I think it's the build up of seeing the cast all grown up and being haunted by something they've largely forgotten about and tried to move on from, and how they deal with real world issues as adults. That and the back-and-forth of them as children being especially vulnerable and being faced with something traumatic during what should've been a simple and innocent time... I think a good It movie wouldn't focus on Pennywise as the main horror, it would be Time. Pennywise could be anything (and he is anything), he just happens to be a clown. The clown shouldn't be the focus. He should be the icing on the cake.

 

[gwynplaine]

I'll take Cary giving us some off-the-wall casting like Poulter over the studio casting someone the message boards would deem to be perfect for the part any day of the week.

 

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"It" Adaptation To Be An R, Film This Year?

By Garth Franklin Friday February 19th 2016 12:51PM
The saga of the film adaptation of one of Stephen King's most iconic works, "It," has been a quite turbulent one over the past year or two. Much acclaimed "Jane Eyre" and "True Detective: Season One" helmer Cary Joji Fukunaga was attached to both pen and direct a two-film adaptation of the lengthy novel before ultimately dropping out over creative differences.
Despite his departure, the production is continuing forward with "Mama" helmer Andres Muschietti now directing a project that's still planning to be a two film adaptation. Speaking with Collider at DICE 2016, producer Roy Lee confirmed the film's R-rating and that production is on schedule:

"It will hopefully be shooting later this year. We just got the California tax credit… Gary Doberman wrote the most recent draft working with Andy Muscetti, so it's being envisioned as two movies... We are very close to turning in the final draft of the script. It's mainly working on it for budgeting purposes to make it fit within the budget that we have."
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Fukunaga and Chase Palmer penned the original version of the script, and concern has been raised that the re-write will tone down some of the seriously darker aspects of the work that make it so famous. Lee confirms the film will still adopt Fukunaga's plan of setting the first film primarily in the past, and the second in the modern day with the same kids as adults:

"It is very close to the source material in one way but very different if you look at it as a literary piece of work… We're taking it and making the movie from the point of view of the kids, and then making another movie from the point of view of the adults, that could potentially then be cut together like the novel. But it's gonna be a really fun way of making this movie."
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Both the book and previous mini-series adaptation blended the timelines together.