Stephen King's It

Wailin

StringerBell wrote: »

A lot of the stuff in the book simply would not work, or could not be shown on tv.

Yeah....like the little kiddies orgy towards the end :rolleyes:
Read the book for the first time recently and thought it was good, not great, until I read that section. Just laughed and closed the book never to finish it. Totally ridiculous and unnecessary from King, no point to it whatsoever.

Mr E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgHEI-yW60M

Liam McPoyle

I have higher hopes foe this than I do for the dark tower, excellent trailer.

Loughc

This looks genuinely scary. Can't wait.

willmunny1990

The sewer scene with the boat didn't look as good or creepy as the original but aside from that everything else looked on point, IT always had serious potential for a great film, its looking promising.

LionelNashe

Endaaaagh wrote: »

Didn't the book end with an orgy of sorts?

I believe a 'train' is the preferred nomenclature.

Imallrightjack

Billy86 wrote: »

Not a fan of the new look at all, it's pretty clear which is scarier if you ask me. Tim Curry's original was just flat out creepy, had a real demented touch of pedophile to it or something like that, that just made you feel... uneasy, watching him. The new one looks like a CGI'd version of Chucky.

it looks nothing like chuckie.go to specsavers instead of the movies might be a better option.:D

Mr Crispy

Trailers have been good. Fingers crossed the quality carries over to the final film.

Agent Coulson

That's a fantastic trailer I have to say.


I still see Tim Curry as Pennywise thought.

Psychologeeee

I've never seen the original IT...(shock horror!), but this looks great!

Liam McPoyle

Psychologeeee wrote: »

I've never seen the original IT...(shock horror!), but this looks great!

Aside from Curry its fluckin awful tbh.

Pero_Bueno

Holy ****! what a trailer !

Pero_Bueno

Been reading on reddit that the Georgie scene will be very graphic ... I kind of hope not, I can't deal with violence against kids on film, even though I loved the book.

Ninthlife

Looking forward to this even more now. Loved the book and the original movie. Hope this lives up to the excellent trailer

Basq

Liked that trailer more than the first..

.. looks mighty good!

Liam McPoyle

Pero_Bueno wrote: »

Been reading on reddit that the Georgie scene will be very graphic ... I kind of hope not, I can't deal with violence against kids on film, even though I loved the book.

Mainstream movies rarely show the killing of a child so it will be interesting to see how it's handled. Georgie has a particularly brutal death so it could be a tough scene to watch.

The only onscreen death of a child I can remember is in murder set pieces which has a graphic stabbing of a pre teen in it thst was shown in full on screen.

It's something that is very much a taboo subject.

Agent Coulson

Barbara Muschietti one of the producers said in an interview that they tried to get Tilda Swinton to play Pennywise but she had scheduling issues and wasn't available for the shoot.



That would have been a very interesting cast and I think might have worked.

Mr Crispy

There's a nice Easter egg re: Curry's Pennywise in one scene in the trailer. I'll link to the image rather than post it.

McDermotX

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hW4YZ-Z-wBQ

figure8

Does anyone know if they are doing the whole sneak preview thing before Annabelle : Creation (and specifically if Cineworld are showing it)? In American cinemas they are showing the drain scene with Georgie prior to the Annabelle, I'm hoping (but doubt it) that cinemas here are doing the same

smurf492

figure8 wrote:

Does anyone know if they are doing the whole sneak preview thing before Annabelle : Creation (and specifically if Cineworld are showing it)? In American cinemas they are showing the drain scene with Georgie prior to the Annabelle, I'm hoping (but doubt it) that cinemas here are doing the same

Saw Annabelle tonight in the IMC and there was only a trailer... Wouldn't want to be watching that scene as a preview myself because it would ruin watching the film next month. Its such a pivotal scene.

Bebopclown

That footage is terrifying! I might not be able to handle this one ��. What makes it so scary is the clown doesn't come off as frightening at all in it. More playful and happy, it's like a total 180 of what we've seen so far. The fact that it comes off as so friendly in this sequence makes it 10 times more frightening. It's played a lot better than it was in the mini series.

Jesus Wept

Tried watching the original, thought it was pretty bad. Wooden acting, slow. Perhaps it was good in its day.

Heisenbug

Jesus Wept wrote: »

Tried watching the original, thought it was pretty bad. Wooden acting, slow. Perhaps it was good in its day.

Yeah those things are way more noticeable now, but loved it as a kid so I still enjoy the odd rewatch of it.

Tony EH

Jesus Wept wrote: »

Tried watching the original, thought it was pretty bad. Wooden acting, slow. Perhaps it was good in its day.

Nah. It wasn't even good in its day.

Tim Curry is fine, but it was typical TV fare of the time. Pretty insipid.

I still think Curry's Pennywise is much, much better than the one in this thing though and I'm not hoping for much to be honest.

Bacchus

Tony EH wrote: »

I still think Curry's Pennywise is much, much better than the one in this thing though and I'm not hoping for much to be honest.

Bit early to be making that judgement though isn't it? I mean, we've seen glimpse in a few trailers. Kinda like how Ledger was going to be terrible as the Joker... and then wasn't.

Tony EH

I'm talking about looks.

Tim Curry's does it for me. Skarsgard's doesn't.

Just comes across as trying too hard to be scary, instead of just being scary.

Heisenbug

Tony EH wrote: »

I'm talking about looks.

Tim Curry's does it for me. Skarsgard's doesn't.

Just comes across as trying too hard to be scary, instead of just being scary.

How he behaves, expressions, mannerisms etc in the context of various scenes will determine the look to a large extent so I would be less inclined to judge purely on looks.

Tony EH

True. But, I just don't feel anything for it at the moment.

Heisenbug

Fair enough I understand your point.