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

[Sawyer]

Now if it could only switch from New Line to HBO.

 

[Thundarr]

Adaptation of Stephen King's IT Shifts from Warner Bros. to New Line

Source: The Hollywood Reporter
May 21, 2014


The Hollywood Reporter brings word this morning that the feature adaptation of the Stephen King's IT has shifted from Warner Bros. to their New Line division, which the outlet reports will now take the lead on all things horror for the studio.

True Detective's Cary Fukunaga was hired to helm the adaptation back in 2012, and it still seems that is the case. The studio is eyeing to release the film in two feature length parts, the first one focusing on the characters as children and the second featuring them as adults.

Previously adapted as a television miniseries in 1990, King's official site describes IT as follows:

A promise made twenty-eight years ago calls seven adults to reunite in Derry, Maine, where as teenagers they battled an evil creature that preyed on the city's children. Unsure that their Losers Club had vanquished the creature all those years ago, the seven had vowed to return to Derry if IT should ever reappear. Now, children are being murdered again and their repressed memories of that summer return as they prepare to do battle with the monster lurking in Derry’s sewers once more.

Fukunaga himself will also attend to scripting duties alongside Chase Palmer with David Katzenberg, Roy Lee, Dan Lin and Seth Grahame-Smith producing

Maybe the fact that the project is switching from WB to New Line means that the project is finally moving forward. At least I hope that's what it means.

 

[Thundarr]

The book of Dreamcatcher more or less drives home the connection. One character even visits Derry and sees a monument to the dead children that the surviving members of the Loser's Club built. Its a little obnoxious. Its less a matter of running out of ideas so much as extreme self indulgence. Dreamcatcher is one of Kings worst novels, written during his recovery after being hit by a car, and most of the book is rehashed ideas, and a character with similar injuries b***ing about it.

Would The Losers Club even have built a monument to the dead children? I mean, almost as soon as they killed It they began to forget everything about their adventures together. They even forget each other. Hell, the words in Mike's journal even begin to disappear. I don't think any of them would have remembered the dead children long enough TO build a monument.

I suppose Ben or Bill could have commissioned it before their memories began to fade, but it seemed to me that Ben & Bev left Derry right away. And Bill seemed too preoccupied with Audra's recovery to be bothered. I could be wrong though.

 

[The Guard]

Mike would have remembered, though. He never left Derry, did he?

 

[jonathancrane]

King has been inconsistent with his Easter Egg policy. In some occasions, they are intended to weave webs of continuity, in others, they are there as well, fun (like the Salem's Lot one in Dr. Sleep, which he confirmed was not intended to be a heavy thread.)

 

[Thundarr]

Mike would have remembered, though. He never left Derry, did he?

Doesn't matter if he left or not. Once It was defeated for good, all of the losers began losing their memories.

Like I said, in the book even the words in Mike's journal began to fade away. So he wouldn't be able to go back and read about what they had done as kids, or their reunion and ultimate victory as adults.

That's something I'm glad they changed in the 1990 TV movie. It seemed that Mike's journal would at least survive, even if he didn't remember writing it.

 

[Brodie83]

I think the book could easily be adapted to a 2-part movie. If you have read the book, it has a lot of "explaining" and "building" of stuff that really would not be relevant in a movie and I'd say a good 1/3 of the book could be cut out of the movie. I listen to the audiobook quite a bit, and have learned to skip a lot of the tracks because they are nonsense and honestly want to get to the good pars that I'd love to see adapted into the movie, like the 29 Neibolt Street house, the fire at the Black Spot, the Bradley Gang massacre, the Kitchener Iron Works explosion, each of the kid's first encounters of Pennywise, some of the encounters of other children or victims of Pennywise, and SO many more! There is so much room to trim the fat of this book and cram it all into a movie. I for one am very excited to see any and all updates on this film in progress!

 

[Aesop Rocks]

I just finished my rewatch of season 1 of True Detective. I need IT now.

 

[Primal Slayer]

I dont think this is ever going to get made and it's sad because IT was the only film that got me truly creeped out and paranoid out of my mind as a child.

 

[Aesop Rocks]

It's slated for a 2015 release?

 

[Primal Slayer]

Is it? Last time I heard it was still stuck in development hell. Do they even have a cast? 2015 is right around the corner.

 

[Sawyer]

It's slated for a 2015 release?

And has made absolutely no forward progress in I don't even know how long... This is most definitely NOT getting a 2015 release.

I'm fine with no film, TBH. Split film is just stupid as **** and I'm over it. Get Cary Fukunaga to make it a miniseries on HBO.

 

[Aesop Rocks]

ugh sawyer you're you.

 

[Sawyer]

AM NOT!!!!

 

[Primal Slayer]

And has made absolutely no forward progress in I don't even know how long... This is most definitely NOT getting a 2015 release.

I'm fine with no film, TBH. Split film is just stupid as **** and I'm over it. Get Cary Fukunaga to make it a miniseries on HBO.

Give me either and I'll be happy.

 

[Thundarr]

Give me either and I'll be happy.

Same here TBH, however I do slightly prefer a theatrical release. That's mainly because I don't have cable and would have to wait for it to come out on DVD/BluRay to see it.

 

[DarkKnight88]

They can do visual things on screen with a bigger budget that HBO just never could do. Who doesn't want to see Pennywise on IMAX. Come on!

A 2-part theatrical horror film shot back-to-back has never been done before as well. How epic is that! I'm rooting for this to get a theatrical release.

 

[Thundarr]

They can do visual things on screen with a bigger budget that HBO just never could do. Who doesn't want to see Pennywise on IMAX. Come on!

A 2-part theatrical horror film shot back-to-back has never been done before as well. How epic is that! I'm rooting for this to get a theatrical release.

Oh, agreed! A theatrical release would be all kinds of awesome! And I'm rooting for that too.

But as has been pointed out earlier in this thread, this movie has been in Development Hell for so long, much longer and the actors who played the young versions of The Losers' Club in the TV movie could all play the adult versions of their characters by the time this thing gets made.

I just hope someone in Hollywood gets up off his ass and truly gets the ball rolling on this project.

 

[Majik1387]

They can do visual things on screen with a bigger budget that HBO just never could do. Who doesn't want to see Pennywise on IMAX. Come on!

A 2-part theatrical horror film shot back-to-back has never been done before as well. How epic is that! I'm rooting for this to get a theatrical release.

Umm, Insidious and Insidious 2 say hi.

But yeah, I'm all for a two-film It movie.

Sick of mini-series, they tend to have dragging episodes or they just go on too long.

 

[Tanin]

Umm, Insidious and Insidious 2 say hi.

Insidious 2 was filmed in 2013. So not back to back.

 

[Marvolo]

And has made absolutely no forward progress in I don't even know how long... This is most definitely NOT getting a 2015 release.

I'm fine with no film, TBH. Split film is just stupid as **** and I'm over it. Get Cary Fukunaga to make it a miniseries on HBO.

I'd rather see King done right on the big screen than held back on the tv screen. I'm sorry, but tv has never done King any favors. Sure HBO isn't normal tv and the story might fare better, but it might not. On HBO they'd be working with a much smaller budget, and less technical resources and connections so they aren't going to try some of the things on HBO that that might on a theatrical film.

Another down side to a miniseries is you stop the tension 10 to 13 times for a week each time. Horror should build tension and at a point become unrelenting until the credits role. Maybe have a moment of false safety or a moment to get you to let down your guard. It should never be cut up into 13 chunks with a week in between each chunk.

 

[Octoberist]

i think modern TV is absolutely superior to film at this rate though with King and horror, you'll have to tread lightly.

I get better value from Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, Boardwalk Empire, True Detective and Fargo from most movies, because you get to actually know the characters and their arcs. It's almost like TV is like how a typical 70's American film was back in the day. Story telling.

With IT, I prefer HBO. People talk about limitations and I say 'who cares'. Work around it. In most cases, HBO looks so grand that it's remarkable at what they can do with a limited budget.

 

[Marvolo]

I've yet to see tv prove itself in the horror genre. Penny Dreadful is good, but doesn't come close to scaring me like some horror films have done at the cinema.

 

[:eek:]

The only thing on tv that has come close to scare me was the killer Bob in Twin Peaks when I was a kid.

 

[Sawyer]

I think I'm just about to the point where I'm going to have to just say "I'm right, and you're all wrong" and move on.