“They all float down here, Georgie!” – Pennywise.
Stephen King’s “It,” one of the horror maestro’s best novels – and the book that made me a compulsive reader – is heading to the big screen.
The book already spawned a passable TV miniseries starring John Ritter and Annette O’Toole, but in this era of remakes, reboots and sequels, it’s hardly a surprise to see Pennywise and co. rise up again.
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When the miniseries came out, I was 10 years old and it scared the bejeezus out of me. It’s still pretty much the scariest horror movie I’ve ever seen.
I can’t imagine a big-budget remake possibly capturing the sense of dread that the miniseries captured, and there’s no freaking way that any other actor could make Pennywise as scary as Tim Curry did.
Curry’s tough to beat — a real under-appreciated actor. Dug him as the devil in the otherwise bloated “Legend.”
Clown = scary … it’s that simple
Gah! Is it too late yet again to cry, “Leave the remakes alone”?
King has a well-known uneven record of adaption to screen, partially because his horror is more imagination-based than the usual grisly fare proffered by contemporary horror cinema – as often addressed in this blog.
Furthermore, “It,” like his “The Stand,” is a voluminous work that even with copious streamlining of the usual King bloat, will be a challenge to compress into a typical-length horror feature.
Better to remake the mini-series, if it MUST be remade. Still, I always look forward to how such challenges are overcome (or not).
~ Dagnabbitt
Tim Curry will always be Pennywise, as a previous poster said – brilliant and unappreciated. One of my guilty pleasures is The Shadow, and he plays a good second fiddle to evil mastermind John Lone.