The It remake has been moving along slowly but there's good news on the horizon for lovers of the demonic dancing clown. The studio is working on the two-film adaptation, and they're going to be bloody.
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In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, producer Seth Grahme-Smith dropped some details about the coming movie.
"I think that if anything, [the new film] will bring back some of the viciousness of the book that they couldn't do with the miniseries because it was for broadcast," Grahme-Smith said. "I think it's going to be very scary, but I also feel like you've got Cary [Fukunaga] who is going to direct these kids-and he's incredible at casting, incredible at shooting. He's incredible with tone and atmosphere."
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"One of the things I wanted to do is be a part of one of the really good King adaptations. As we know, there is an echelon of King adaptations that are classics. There are some that are okay. There are some that we'd rather forget."
The last time that It saw a screen adaptation, there were a ton of things that could not be put into the miniseries because it was made for TV. Various really brutal ways that victims died as well as some issues with subplots and how things were resolved.
I'm not going to ruin it, read the book.
Even so, with all the cuts and changes they had to make to the source material, the first TV run was still terrifying so imagine what they'll be able to do without the confines of cable rules.
Grahme-Smith also updated readers on the status. They're working on a script now and hope to begin filming in the summer.
Smashing. Now we're all just wondering if Tim Curry will be willing to come back as the iconic villain.
