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Post by Deexan on Dec 8, 2014 8:16:34 GMT -5
It looks like Pennywise the Clown will soon be back to make audiences fear clowns for years to come. Speaking to Vulture on Dec. 4, producer Dan Lin confirmed that True Detective director Cary Fukunaga is on board for a new adaptation of Stephen King’s It. “The idea is to start official prep in March for a summer shoot,” Lin, a producer on The Lego Movie, told Vulture. However, Lin said It was too big to keep to one movie, and so the plan is to split It into two films (which, if Lin takes inspiration from Peter Jackson, will turn into a trilogy culminating in It: A Pennywise for Your Thoughts). Lin only confirmed Fukunaga’s involvement for the first film, but did say he is working to sign on the director for the second one as well. The two-part film does have some precedent in the case of It, however. The original 1986 novel has only seen one other major adaptation, a two-part miniseries on ABC that aired in 1990. That version is particularly memorable for Tim Curry’s horrifying portrayal of Pennywise the Clown, and should serve as a standard-bearer for clown-based scares as Fukunaga and Lin prep their version. More so than signing on Fukunaga for both parts, Lin has been most concerned with earning the approval of one man: Stephen King. “The most important thing is that Stephen King gave us his blessing,” Lin said. “We didn’t want to make this unless he felt it was the right way to go, and when we sent him the script, the response that Cary got back was, ‘Go with God, please! This is the version the studio should make.’ So that was really gratifying.” insidemovies.ew.com/2014/12/05/cary-fukunaga-stephen-king-it-2015-filming/Hell yeah. |
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Post by Jibbs on Dec 9, 2014 19:32:22 GMT -5
I used to watch the TV version all the time as a kid. This could be interesting.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2014 20:25:24 GMT -5
I'm excited about this. I liked it a lot as a kid too, even though it scared the crap out of me.
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Post by Deexan on May 31, 2015 5:05:49 GMT -5
Sadly, Fukunaga is no longer attached.
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Post by Neverending on May 31, 2015 13:06:30 GMT -5
Sadly, Fukunaga is no longer attached. That's fine. Before he left he cast Adam Deexan as Pennywise the Clown. |
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Post by RedStorm901 on Jun 1, 2015 21:59:44 GMT -5
![]() Will Poulter is in negotiations to play Pennywise. Really excited for this movie, cant wait to see what they do with an R rated IT. Just hope they don't make it to over the top, it was pretty scary for a TV movie back in the day. |
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Post by Deexan on Jul 17, 2015 20:23:03 GMT -5
For a long time, an adaptation of Stephen King’s IT was being developed by director Carey Fukunaga (“True Detective”) as a two-part feature film, but he left the project over Memorial Day weekend leaving New Line Pictures and producers Dan Lin, Roy Lee, Seth Grahame-Smith and Jeffrey Katzenberg scrambling to find a new director.
Now comes word from The Hollywood Reporter’s Heat Vision that Andy Muschietti, director of the 2013 breakout horror hit Mama, produced by Guillermo del Toro and starring Jessica Chastain and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, is in talks to take over the directorial reins.
Originally meant to start shooting in June, the production was delayed when Fukunaga dropped out and when Muschietti’s deal is closed, New Line will find a writer to work on the script with him, maintaining the plan to release the movie in two parts.
It seems like actor Will Poulter (We’re the Millers) may no longer be attached to the project to play the evil clown entity Pennywise due to scheduling issues, but they could very well go back to him after finalizing the new script.
At one point, Muschietti was attached to the direct Universal’s upcoming remake of The Mummy, but that project will happen with or without him.www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/462671-stephen-kings-it-finds-a-new-director
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Post by Deexan on Sept 5, 2015 3:44:43 GMT -5
Cary Fukunaga blames studio meddling for his leaving Stephen King’s IT
While it was initially rumored that filmmaker Cary Fukunaga left New Line’s two-part remake of Stephen King’s IT weeks before principal photography over budgetary issues, the Emmy-winning “True Detective” helmer has gone to great detail with Variety to make it plain that that was NOT the case. Rather, it seems to have been a typical case of studio tampering.
“I was trying to make an unconventional horror film,” Fukunaga states. “It didn’t fit into the algorithm of what they knew they could spend and make money back on based on not offending their standard genre audience. Our budget was perfectly fine. We were always hovering at the $32 million mark, which was their budget. It was the creative that we were really battling. It was two movies. They didn’t care about that. In the first movie, what I was trying to do was an elevated horror film with actual characters. They didn’t want any characters. They wanted archetypes and scares. I wrote the script. They wanted me to make a much more inoffensive, conventional script. But I don’t think you can do proper Stephen King and make it inoffensive.”
Fukunaga surprised many with his unconventional casting choice of young English actor Will Poulter as the central villain Pennywise, and he would have added a new dimension to the nefarious clown not seen in Tommy Lee Wallace’s 1990 TV adaptation.
“The main difference was making Pennywise more than just the clown,” said Fukunaga. “After 30 years of villains that could read the emotional minds of characters and scare them, trying to find really sadistic and intelligent ways he scares children, and also the children had real lives prior to being scared. And all that character work takes time. It’s a slow build, but it’s worth it, especially by the second film. But definitely even in the first film, it pays off. It was being rejected. Every little thing was being rejected and asked for changes. Our conversations weren’t dramatic. It was just quietly acrimonious. We didn’t want to make the same movie. We’d already spent millions on pre-production. I certainly did not want to make a movie where I was being micro-managed all the way through production, so I couldn’t be free to actually make something good for them. I never desire to screw something up. I desire to make something as good as possible.”
Now it appears that Mama director Andy Muschietti will pick up where Fukunaga left off, and the director hopes the new caretaker of the property will change as much as possible from what he had in mind.
“We invested years and so much anecdotal storytelling in it,” Fukunaga says of his and Chase Palmer’s script. “Chase and I both put our childhood in that story. So our biggest fear was they were going to take our script and bastardize it. So I’m actually thankful that they are going to rewrite the script. I wouldn’t want them to stealing our childhood memories and using that. I mean, I’m not sure if the fans would have liked what I would had done. I was honoring King’s spirit of it, but I needed to update it. King saw an earlier draft and liked it.”
The remake of Stephen King’s IT is still being produced by Dan Lin, Roy Lee, Seth Grahame-Smith and Jeffrey Katzenberg, although there is no definitive start date for the revitalized project.
www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/478729-stephen-kings-it-cary-fukunaga-blames-studio-tampering-for-his-departureBooooooo(-urns).
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Post by Justin on Aug 17, 2016 7:57:36 GMT -5
I don't like the hair.
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Post by Deexan on Aug 17, 2016 8:39:03 GMT -5
Looks like one of my exes.
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Post by Jibbs on Aug 17, 2016 18:31:56 GMT -5
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Post by Neverending on Aug 17, 2016 19:14:50 GMT -5
Looks like one of my exes.  |
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Post by Justin on Aug 17, 2016 21:14:07 GMT -5
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Post by Fanible on Aug 18, 2016 4:42:00 GMT -5
Incredibles crossover event!
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Post by Deexan on Aug 18, 2016 4:52:42 GMT -5
Stephen King & Pixar present...
It's already sounding better than the MiB/Jump Street crossover.
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Post by Jibbs on Dec 27, 2016 0:43:58 GMT -5
Do you suppose the orgy will be in it?
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Post by thebtskink on Dec 27, 2016 7:23:25 GMT -5
Do you suppose the orgy will be in it? That is so offensive, man. Everyone knows it's called a train when it's one dude after the other. |
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Post by Neverending on Mar 23, 2017 17:06:00 GMT -5
Is that you, Deexan , hanging around the sewers? |
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Post by Seakazoo on Mar 29, 2017 12:17:23 GMT -5
0:24 HA!
The trailer is creepy, but I kind of hate the way Pennywise moves at the end of it.
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Post by Neverending on Mar 29, 2017 13:02:29 GMT -5
It looks awesome.
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