Warner Brothers to bring Stephen King's IT to the big screen

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 3/16/09 at 8:06pm

"Warner Bros. is bringing Stephen King's landmark horror novel "It" to the big screen in an adaptation being produced by Lin Pictures and Vertigo Entertainment.

Dave Kajganich has been hired pen the script, which follows a group of kids called the Losers Club that encounter a creature called It, which preys on children and whose favorite form is that of a sadistic clown called Pennywise. When the creature resurfaces, the kids are called upon to regroup again, this time as adults, even though they have no memory of the first battle.

The novel is set in 1958 and 1985, though the feature version will be set in the present day."
Stephen King's 'It' heads to theaters

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 3/16/09 at 8:14pm

I hated the television version as a kid. Clowns scare me already. I still won't watch it now and I'm 22. You couldn't pay me to see it on the big screen.

[danmag]

Posted: 3/17/09 at 7:09am

Oooooh. That clown scared the sh*t out of me.

[Weez]

Posted: 3/17/09 at 7:11am

I hope it captures the feel of the book better this time. I just wanted to slap all the kids silly in the existing version, whereas with the book, I desperately wanted to be friends with them all. :/

[MeMeMeee]

Posted: 3/17/09 at 9:53am

IMHO, all of King's books are so much more frightening in your head than onscreen. The clown in my head, as I was reading the book, was far scarier than Tim Curry could ever have been.

But, I wish them the best.

I LOVED this book.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 3/17/09 at 9:56am

Not my favorite King book by a long shot. I much prefer his shorter meaner books like THE SHINING or PET SEMATARY.

But there's some good stuff in IT, as I remember. One of the things that King can do really well, better than almost anyone actually, is evoke the world of childhood and adolescence. CHRISTINE is one of the best books ever written about American teenagers.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 3/17/09 at 10:55am

CHRISTINE is one of the best books ever written about American teenagers.

Not to mention Carrie, which is the one book I've read more than any other. I think It is one of King's finest horror tales, just under The Shining and Salem's Lot, perhaps. I read it as a teenager and it scared the bejeezus out of me. But as with most King novels, the ending will be a challenge. His descriptions of these terrifying monsters and images are difficult to transfer to the screen without them coming across as cheesy and hokey.

When will we finally get a non-television film treatment of Rose Madder or Bag of Bones? I would love to see Alfonso Cuarón direct Bag of Bones and perhaps Guillermo del Toro for Rose Madder.

[Calvin]

Posted: 3/17/09 at 11:06am

Even as a kid when the tv movie came out, I just couldn't get scared by any movie featuring Judge Stone from Night Court and John Ritter.
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[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 3/17/09 at 11:18am

and john boy! don't forget john boy!

Posted: 3/17/09 at 11:20am

Part 1 of the earlier TV version was pretty good. The late great Jonathan Brandis played the head of the losers club.
It's when the kids became adults in part 2 that it didn't work for me.

[Calvin]

Posted: 3/17/09 at 11:22am

Ha, and Seth Green.

Whoever played Henry Bowers didn't turn out like anything I had imagined from the book. He was like an evil Fonz.

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 3/17/09 at 12:03pm

Rose Madder was one of my favorites, too...and always wanted a film version.

I thought Curry did a great job, and I remember enjoying the first part, but the adults were terrible, all around.

The older bad kid was played by Pete from The Mod Squad, no?

[South Fl Marc]

Posted: 3/17/09 at 12:07pm

I wasn't crazy about the TV version, but Tim Curry was perfect in it.
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[Kasie]

Posted: 3/17/09 at 5:50pm

I'm pretty excited about this. I enjoyed the TV version, well, most of it, anyway.

Tim Curry was perfect and I liked most of the cast. The ending was the only thing that should have been executed better, IMO. How? I don't know... but it shouldn't have been so freakin' hilarious. I almost wish they would rewrite the ending like they did in THE MIST.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 3/17/09 at 6:38pm

I can't believe it but somehow I never saw the TV version.