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Stephen King’s IT movie announced for September 2017

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The long-in-development film adaptation of Stephen King’s IT has found its evil clown. Variety reports that Will Poulter (The Maze Runner) will star as Pennywise in the two-part film, which will be directed by Cark Fukunaga (True Detective). Fukunaga is also co-writing the films with Chase Palmer and David Kajganich.

The site reports that Poulter “blew Fukunaga away” with his audition, which convinced the director to go in a younger direction than they had previously considered for the role. Tim Curry famously played Pennywise in the 1990 ABC miniseries.

In IT, 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.
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I doubt he will be nearly as great as Tim Curry was as Pennywise. I feel this remake is unnecessary, the original miniseries still holds up. The kid actors were so great in it.

I guess we will have to see how this turns out.
 
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Curry was fun, but I can't imagine watching the miniseries again as it wasn't very good. I'm thrilled to have someone as talented as Fukunaga on this project and I'm eager to see what he'll do with it.
 
Tim Curry was great, as always, but the miniseries was no great shakes. I'm looking forward to seeing Fukanaga bring the same sense of doom and oppression that he brought to True Detective.

I've no idea what this young actor is like but it's probably a good move to cast someone who's so totally different from Curry, so as to minimise comparisons, as far as possible.
 
I hope this time it's a more cohesive whole. Part 1 of the miniseries is really great, but part 2 (IMO) ...not so much.
 
I bet this version will also have a different ending to the book. ;)
 
Orac said:
I bet this version will also have a different ending to the book. ;)
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Dammit, you beat me to it!

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I can't imagine anyone daring to film the book ending for a mass market film. It's less filmable than the book ending to Hannibal was.
 
Meh, the book ending felt tacked on anyway. "And now that the danger has passed, we'll immortalize the moment by doing something wholey inappropriate and awkward!!"
 
I've only seen Will Poulter in Narnia, certainly a different role; he's grown enough that he could be intimidating to children but I don't think he would be to the characters as adults.
 
suarezguy said:
I've only seen Will Poulter in Narnia, certainly a different role; he's grown enough that he could be intimidating to children but I don't think he would be to the characters as adults.
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He's a sadistic supernatural clown...I doubt he'll have much trouble scaring adults, especially as they all remember him tormenting them as children.
 
Tosk said:
I hope this time it's a more cohesive whole. Part 1 of the miniseries is really great, but part 2 (IMO) ...not so much.
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That sums up my view perfectly. I found the first half of the mini series really good and very creepy, basically when they were all still kids, once it moved onto them as adults it gets a bit rubbish, plus Tim Curry is scarier than any
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Can a mod please change the topic title to
"Stephen King’s IT movie announced for September 2017"?
 
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