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Related: About this forumThe trailer for Steven King's IT is out..
Looks so scary! I read that book in less that 48hrs when it came out. Same for Tommyknockers
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,599 posts)NWCorona
(8,541 posts)Docreed2003
(16,850 posts)Tim Curry played Pennywise. This one looks scary as hell...loved the book when I was younger, but there's a reason I hate clowns!!
ihaveaquestion
(2,505 posts)The book, but the movie was disappointing.
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)malchickiwick
(1,474 posts)Movie one is them as kids, and then movie two is them as adults. So you won't get the back and forth that is so effective in the novel.
Thanks for posting the trailer!!
Ligyron
(7,616 posts)The first movie was OK, hopefully this one will improve on
IT.
muhahha!!
Doreen
(11,686 posts)was "Lord Of The Flies" and that is because it is so close to how humans would really act in those circumstances. He really hits the true nature of humans in that one.
rdmtimp
(1,588 posts)Doreen
(11,686 posts)Stephen King. Oops.
welivetotreadonkings
(134 posts)Else You Are Mad
(3,040 posts)the childhood years? That is what the trailer makes it look like.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)Likely one more - but you know a studio can say a trilogy makes more money, if the first makes big money!
Like "The Hobbit" went to three.
Else You Are Mad
(3,040 posts)I hope they don't extend it into a trilogy or further andI hope they don't go for the money grab. Stephen King movies don't have the best track record as it is, but I am hoping that this one was done well.
Two full length movies are perfect for IT.
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)stonecutter357
(12,694 posts)forgotmylogin
(7,520 posts)I am a huge Stephen King fan, but I can't imagine how the OP read it in 48 hours as it was over 1000 pages - it felt to me like a mammoth catch-all clearing house for every stray story fragment King had floating around and it took me forever to read (and I can inhale a novel when it grabs me). Absolute same for TOMMYKNOCKERS which started with the most intriguing premise. But I know a lot of people love the King mega-novels.
I'm a bigger fan of the novels when King limits himself somehow to rein in the focus, like in THE SHINING or GERALD'S GAME or DOLORES CLAIBORNE. I tried to read the reissued and uncut THE STAND and had the same issue and gave up going "I see why this was edited down..."
This movie appears like it might be stripped down to focus on the "clown" storyline, which will probably make a compact and tense popcorn flick.
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)I read IT over the weekend and I literally couldnt put it down. I was hooked on Tommyknockers when she found that metal object in the ground and started digging. Other books by King can take forever to get through.
I actually prefer King's shorter stories like in Skheleton Crew but The Shinning is probably my favorite.
Doreen
(11,686 posts)I have actually been waiting for them to figure out how to do a good movie or movies or expanded television series on "The Dark Tower" but it would have to have the same care that was used for "Lord Of The Rings" or it would never make it. I am a very large Stephen King fan. I also like his comments on trump. Maybe he will write a horror story about him.
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)Doreen
(11,686 posts)Wow. Is it a movie or am I going to have to miss out because I can not afford HBO or Showtime or any of those other movie channels? I absolutely love "The Dark Tower" series. I am strange but I kind of consider it the Bible of Stephen King.
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)This is the best we can get for now.
Doreen
(11,686 posts)They were talking about Jake and Jake does not show up until the second book "The Drawing Of Three." I am dying to see the trailer also.
elmac
(4,642 posts)The TV version was very well done. This one looks even better. I wonder if the clown hysteria last year has a connection?
Doreen
(11,686 posts)I thought that I hated clowns...now I know the true evil.
FSogol
(45,448 posts)ffr
(22,665 posts)All the best, Pennywise.
samnsara
(17,605 posts)..I had to watch the you tube trailer thru my fingers.......
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)But this version looks super scary. When those slides started moving on their own and his face came into focus...
Tikki
(14,549 posts)at least once a year.
Tim Curry's Pennywise is perfection and I will judge any attempts to top it accordingly.
I will see this movie...100% for sure, though.
Stephen King's writings certainly hold up.
Tikki