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Stephen King’s ‘It’ Heading To The Big Screen
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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.

Trailer

[Source: Variety]

3 Comments »

  1. i am 13 years old now.my parents friends gave me the book “IT” only a few days ago.yet i amonly the age of 13,i still enjoyed the book for what i read of it.then i decided to check out the movie to see how it would be.i literally crapped myself.it wasnt that scary,but there are things in life that you cant unsee! even though it is 2009,i at my young age even enjoyed this movie alot,i recomend it to all,(that are 13 and up!)

    Comment by nicholas — March 15, 2009 @ 5:06 pm

  2. Another remake *sighs*

    Comment by scrotumbagmonkeyflicker — March 16, 2009 @ 4:53 am

  3. Oh, No!

    It is my favorite book in the world, and I cannot STAND the miniseries, it totally ruined it, and it made me so angry that I could hardly finish watching it! PLEASE DON’T RUIN IT AGAIN!!! I love Tim Curry (who doesn’t?!?!) but it’s so hard to capture the character of pennywise, and the miniseries screwed up the plot line! I’ll be so pissed off if they mess it up again, and don’t show the proper respect to the book, which is the greatest piece of literature I’ve come across.

    can’t anyone come up with their own ideas and STOP ruining all of the great books with stupid movies??? GAH! I’m so mad right now, and stop remaking Tim Curry movies!!! first clue and now It?!?! If someone tries to remake Rock Horror, I’m organizing an angry mob, I think I’ll get the same people who stopped the American version of SPACED. :)

    Comment by Sierra — March 16, 2009 @ 3:51 pm

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