Posted on 07/21/2017 4:17:09 PM PDT by dynachrome
The film adaption of Stephen King’s classic horror is only two months away and San Diego Comic-Con have been treated to some more terrifying footage.
Director Andres Muschietti introduced a couple of clips that apparently left the audience unsettled and terrified, just like the last trailer.
The filmmaker also revealed to Variety that IT Part 2 of the story will start shooting early next year and is set 30 years later with flashbacks.
Entertainment Weekly have provided a description of the horrors Pennywise the Dancing Clown inflicted in what was screened at Comic Con.
(Excerpt) Read more at express.co.uk ...
“There is a seventh Loser, Mike Hanlon, played by Chosen Jacobs, who is one of the only black people in the town of Derry, so he deals with abuse and hostility on a constant basis.
“He gets it worst of all from the bully Henry Bowers, who learned his hatred of Mike from his racist father, who in the book has spent years tormenting the Hanlon family. “
Gotta have the quota minorities. Transexuals in part 2?
The only thing I care about at SDCC is that David Duchovny is there, and is Gillian Anderson gonna show up?
Translation: Hollywood devoid of new material and imagination...........
Believe me, I know people in the business and there's plenty of creative people with ideas and imagination. The problem is that the business side, which controls the money, is run by bean counters who are inherently adverse to risking tens or hundreds of millions of dollars on something that may not pay off. To put it another way, would you rather spend $500 million on something that already has audience recognition and stands a 90% of recouping investment, or spend it on something that no one has heard of, which you'll have to spend marketing money educating the public about, and which stands a 50% chance of making its money back, if you're lucky?
As Michael Corleone said, "It's strictly business."
Can’t sleep, clowns may eat me.
Hey now. I’m a bean counter. :)
That said, Hollywood accounting is known as some of the most creative around.
Will the movie include the pre-adolescent gang bang from the book?
Hollywood has always been controlled by investors, that's not a new concept.
Given the number of movie rehashes that have crashed, it's apparent the bean counters are in need of some fresh imagination...........
Did this happen in the book? Or is the director taking liberties?
Well...if anything it sounds like this version of “IT” is much truer to the Book than the made for TV version with Tim Curry. “IT” (the book) is VERY dark and twisted. (Stephen King years later admitted he was high on drugs most of time he was writing it, and it many ways it reads like a bad drug trip.)
That’s putting it mildly.
According to Hollywood accounting, the entire film industry after over 100 years has yet to make a dime in profit...
That clip was creepy, but all I have to do is remind myself of Tim Curry and any suspense just evaporates.
Most likley because I didn't watch the original "IT" as a kid.
By the time I saw it I was an adult and had watched too much Mystery Science Theater. All I did was just rift it the whole way though. :/
I have forever been ruined.
“It”, the book was very good, except for the ending. I don’t like to look into drains after that one and the movie “Phantasm”
Indiana Jones made a prophet
Profit
The studios want every movie to be a blockbuster. They don’t seem willing to make more movies that simply make decent profit because by telling a good story cheaply. No they shove hundreds of millions of $ into these wannabe epics. But it only takes a few losses to ruin you when you are soendingvseveral hundred mill per movie.
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