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IT; Stephen King's
Topic Started: Mar 15 2009, 03:52 PM (131 Views)
Jeffrywith1e
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Stephen King’s ‘It’ Heading To The Big Screen
 
Posted by The Movie God | March 15th, 2009 at 9:45 am

ItAs with most people in my general age range, either by way of Stephen King’s novel, or the 1990 TV mini series, It terrorized my sleep on more than one occasion. It’s being reported that like many others, It will be getting the remake treatment, but this time it will be for the big screen.

The story of It takes place in Derry, Maine, and follows a group of kids and their terrifying encounters with Pennywise the clown, an evil creature of a clown who basically feeds on kids and is unseen by adults. Eventually the group escapes Pennywise and reaches adulthood, but soon come to find out that the clown isn’t done with them. They then decide to band together and fight the dangerous being.

The TV miniseries style was used because of the length of the book, so this will technically be the first time the story is adapted into a two-hour or so long movie.

Most remakes are painful to hear about, but I’m actually pretty interested to see how they do this one. If they construct a solid 120-minute story and handle it properly, it could be really f’n scary. The one big issue for me is Pennywise. It will be almost impossibly difficult to replace what Tim Curry made that character into, and even harder to win fans of him and that TV miniseries over from Curry to whomever they do use. Fortunately for the film makers, I don’t think It is so well-known and appreciated that it will be much of an issue past the fans. Either that, or the more likely scenario — it becomes a PG-13 kiddie-horror starring Bozo the Clown.

The movie is being developed by Warner Brothers and the script being written by Dave Kajganich (The Invasion).

Here’s a little trailer of the original miniseries to refresh your memory… and nightmares.
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JoshFormerRoomie
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I've found that the miniseries tend to do King's work more justice then big screen adaptations, so this will be interesting if they can pull it off. Especially since "It" is over 1000 pages long. Hard to see how they can keep the depth of the novel onscreen without having the running time be over 3 hours.
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Never read the book, but watched the mini series. Awesome until the end when the creepy clown turns into a giant spider. WTF!
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All the more reason to read the book, it provides a hell of alot more context then the miniseries gives it.

For what it's worth, I'm currently reading Carl Hiaasen's 1993 novel "Striptease". Got about half way through the book before it dawned on me that this was the novel that birthed that god forsaken Demi Moore movie of the same name.

Suffice to say, the book is better.
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