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

[Sawyer]

Ben Mendelsohn passed on playing Pennywise because of Star Wars Rogue One scheduling conflict.

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Good, at least this means they're planning to finally get this show on the road.

 

[Doctor Jones]

Damn, Mendelsohn would have been completely inspired. The thing is it's hard to gauge what kind of actor they're really going for because that's a choice one wouldn't expect.

 

[Pickleweasel]

Dang that would have been a good pick that I never would have thought of

 

[:eek:]

IT Filming in June

Posted: March 30, 2015, 23:23:10
Section: Film » It

Bloody Disgusting reports that IT will start filming in June. They also say it might be a trilogy, something that is news to me. Hopefully more news will come soon.

The feature film adaptation of Stephen King’s It is finally entering pre-production, with plans on going behind cameras this June in New York, reports Production Weekly.

The first in what could be a new trilogy is to be helmed by “True Detective’s” Cary Fukunaga.

 

[Octoberist]

Two movies are fine but three!?

 

[Greens]

Finally! I'm extremely curious as to who will be following Tim Curry...

 

[Primal Slayer]

yeah where are all the cast announcements?

And they better not pray for the film to be successful so they can get a trilogy while not giving us a proper ending for the first one.

 

[Doctor Jones]

Good Christ enough with stretching these things out. Do one movie and be done with it.

 

[Greens]

One movie COULD do the job, but looking at the TV Movie and what they left out, I'm fine with two. Three is a big no-no.

 

[Sawyer]

And they better not pray for the film to be successful so they can get a trilogy while not giving us a proper ending for the first one.

That's what pisses me off. I get that they want more than one movie's length of time to tell the story, because the story requires it, but it's such a goddamn gamble. If the first movie doesn't live up to expectations, what, we just don't get the rest of the story? F*** that. It pisses me off to read that they're planning to do this with The Stand, and it pisses me off now.

You want sufficient hours to tell this story, put it on HBO where it belongs.

 

[Schlosser85]

I've only seen Ben Mendelsohn in The Dark Knight Rises and Exodus and thought he was terrible in both of them.

 

[Octoberist]

I've only seen Ben Mendelsohn in The Dark Knight Rises and Exodus and thought he was terrible in both of them.

I guess it's time for some Animal Kingdom and Place Beyonds the Pines for you then.

He reminds me of a Gary Oldman type. And it's kinda like, if I wasn't familiar with Gary Oldman, thinking he's a hammy actor if I only saw him in the Book of Eli and Little Red Riding Hood!

 

[Doctor Jones]

That's what pisses me off. I get that they want more than one movie's length of time to tell the story, because the story requires it, but it's such a goddamn gamble. If the first movie doesn't live up to expectations, what, we just don't get the rest of the story? F*** that. It pisses me off to read that they're planning to do this with The Stand, and it pisses me off now.

You want sufficient hours to tell this story, put it on HBO where it belongs.

You can still do a 175 minute film with the proper script and director. If LOTR taught us anything, it taught us anything is possible with book adaptations. A book with dense material does not automatically equate to it needing to be made into a mini series. Though it absolutely can work in the medium just as well on its own, no dismissing that. My point is, if you're gonna make it a film, do it right. And three films is not the right way to do it.

Granted, watching GOT, it's hard to imagine it as anything else but a tv show. It can be done as a film series, it's just more practical to do them as a tv show. Though Martin still pines for a film.

 

[DarkKnight88]

You want sufficient hours to tell this story, put it on HBO where it belongs.

I've yet to watch a series that is genuinely frightening. This story doesn't work for TV.

 

[Solidus]

You can still do a 175 minute film with the proper script and director. If LOTR taught us anything, it taught us anything is possible with book adaptations. A book with dense material does not automatically equate to it needing to be made into a mini series. Though it absolutely can work in the medium just as well on its own, no dismissing that. My point is, if you're gonna make it a film, do it right. And three films is not the right way to do it.

Granted, watching GOT, it's hard to imagine it as anything else but a tv show. It can be done as a film series, it's just more practical to do them as a tv show. Though Martin still pines for a film.

? LOTOR's "book adaptation" (since it is one book) was spread out over three films. Almost 10 hours of film. It is a 1100 page book. You could not cram that into one film. But even still FOTOR the book is what 400 pages? Putting that into a 3 hour movie is not really hard to do. Taking a 1100 page book and cramming it into 3 hours would be too much. However I think an HBO show is going too far. I don't think there is that much in the book to stretch it out 10 episodes.

I'm fine with 2 or 3 films. Just as long as it's done right.

 

[:eek:]

IT Filmed in Bangor?

Posted: April 1, 2015, 15:24:53
Section: Film » It
The crew from the new adaptation of Stephen King’s IT has been in Bangor to scope out potential filming locations. This was reported by Bangor Daily News yesterday and apparently Stu Tinker owner and operator of SK Tours, the official Stephen King tour of Bangor, took a production designer on a tour of the city on Monday.

 

[Rocketman]

Three movies is a disastrous idea. Not feeling good about this.

 

[Pickleweasel]

No good source has said 3 movies. Trades and producers on the movie have said 2 movies which is what makes the most sense, random website says it might be 3 so now its going to be 3?

 

[Rocketman]

Calm down, lol.
If it's true or not true, it's a terrible idea either way.

 

[Sawyer]

I've yet to watch a series that is genuinely frightening. This story doesn't work for TV.

I have two words for this:

Bull. Crap.

It's a bullcrap argument and it's one I see every time I say I'd rather see The Stand or IT on HBO. Character should have a higher value placed upon it than jump scares, and that's NOT something it would get on the big screen at this moment in time. Without the character work King did, IT wouldn't be half as well regarded as it is. It might be in the horror genre, but all that stuff is just the icing on the cake.

 

[dark_b]

HBO or netflix can and will work. its only a matter of time before we get full on horror series.

 

[Sawyer]

I honestly defy anyone who has watched True Detective to tell me that IT couldn't work on HBO if given the same treatment.

 

[Octoberist]

I've yet to watch a series that is genuinely frightening. This story doesn't work for TV.

What you just said is so silly.

 

[The Endless]

True Detective was seriously unsettling. Particularly the scene with the girl in the mental institute. Really it was like a top quality 10 hour movie. The development of the characters, with the slow burning story, simply couldn't be done in a 2 or even 3 hour film.

Genuine horror can work on TV. Course it can. It's all about the talent and the execution. Plus with a serialized show you can obviously fit more stuff in and really develop the characters.

And to be honest Hollywood's horror output isn't exactly great anyway is it.

 

[dark_b]

i think on TV it has a better chance to be good. for the theatrical realese they will use every possible cliche. plus only only only jump scares.

look at the Poltergeist movie. only jump scares.