Cary Fukunaga to Bring Stephen King’s ‘It’ to the Big Screen
The most terrifying clown of all-time is making a return as Heat Vision reports that acclaimed director Cary Fukunaga (Jane Eyre) will adapt Stephen King’s It to the silver screen in two installations. As you may already know, the novel was previously adapted for a television mini-series which undoubtedly brought ceaseless night time terror to kids all over the world.
The super-creepy story centers on a group of teenage outcasts who vow to destroy an inter-dimensional creature who preys on its victims by transforming itself into their worst fears. Most of the time though, it takes the sadistic form of Pennywise the Clown (Tim Curry) and appears in the most randomly terrifying places such as storm drains. The story also picks up when the kids are adults as Pennywise resurfaces once again.
Needless to say, this is simultaneously great and terrible news. Cary Fukunaga is one of the most promising director in the game right now and having him taking on such a rich premise (let’s face it, the TV movies sucked) is ridiculously exciting. But on the other hand, Pennywise the Clown scared me shitless as a kid and I’m not sure I want to experience that ever again if you know what I mean. It certainly will be interesting to see how Fukunaga handles so of the now-iconic visuals that came from the TV movies.
What do you think? Are you looking forward to Cary Fukunaga’s “It”?
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After being amazed by Jane Eyre, I hope he can do something different to the world of horror.
And I feel like he added some hints of horror in Jane Eyre which were unexpected.
My favourite King novel! Great news!
Have not read the book but I’m intrigued.
I am scared that this will suck. IT is such an amazing book.
…it definitely has “sucky” potential but it is such a great story…hopefully it’ll turn out good. But who will play the clown. If I was casting I would go straight for Tim Curry once again!
Well, the TV series sucked. I mean, could it really get worse?
I’m wary of the two film installation aspect of it. I’d rather see a lengthy flick by Fukunaga than another two part piece, especially with the likelihood that it’ll be a very limited release with spread out release dates in mild hopes of more cash. This could be fantastic with him directing, or it could just be another hot mess of an adaptation.
Yea it will interesting to see how he splits into two movies (ie. one for the kids, and one for the adults?) It has a lot of potential to be sucky but it has a lot of potential to be great as well.
Whoa, from Jane Eyre to a scary clown, now that’s pretty drastic
Tim Curry is the creepiest clown ever!
He should get Tim Curry out of retirement just for this one
It’s probably for the best. This material into the hands of a capable director might be very interesting to see. Having read the novel I’m a little scared to think that it will be put on screen and also a little excited.
Word.
To this day I still refuse to see it. I still have memories of myself as a small child hiding behind dad while it was on the TV screen. And the ice cream truck music still gives me the chills… urgh
It’s some fucked up shit. You don’t want to see it!
Ow yes pleaase!!! the world needs more good scary movies!!
The question is will IT make to the screen at all? I feel like it’s de-ja vu, last year I got all excited about The Dark Tower and The Stand coming to the big screen, then The Dark Tower got axed and we never heard anything more about The Stand.
I really like IT the novel, the TV movie not so much. Maybe this one might actually happen since it won’t cost a studio $150mil or more to produce it.
Yea I think the biggest issues with The Dark Tower was the massive budget and the studio just wasn’t willing to spend that kind of money on something that wasn’t a “lock” to be a blockbuster. Hopefully, this will get done. Fukunaga can get this done for pretty cheap
I am very excited for this remake to happen. I was 7 when “IT” debuted on TV. My Mom taped it for me and I got to watch it for myself…which was probably not her shining moment as my mother. I was terrified, and I was one of those kids who didn’t get scared when it came to horror movies. As an adult now I would love to see a fresh remake of this movie. I really really really wanna know when I can be expecting this film. I keep checking back but nothing in the news of when we may be able to see this movie. I’ve never been actually excited to see a movie, excited to the point that I gotta keep checking to see when it comes out. I also am dying to know who will play Pennywise. Tim Curry rocked it.
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