After years of floating down there Georgie, Stephen Kings’ much loved horror classic IT is finally going to make it to the Big Screen!
Those of you who have read the book know that it flipped back and forth between 1958 and 1985, to show The Losers Club battling Pennywise as children, and then again as adults. The book was terrifying, as was the TV adaptation, which necessarily couldn’t be completely true to the book because of the constraints of the medium. I wonder if the movie may be able to be more true to the book. If so, prepare to be absolutely horrified! And to loathe clowns all over again…
New Line Cinema plans to release the movie in two parts. Word is that the first film will focus on the Losers Club as children, winning their first battle against Pennywise. The second film will take place years later, when Pennywise makes his cyclical comeback and terrorizes children all over again. The Losers Club will reform, with the original members now being adults. This is not quite the way the book reads, or the way the TV adaption played, but I personally feel that it will allow for better focus on the characters first as children, and then as adults. So I’m okay with that.
Bill Skarsgard has been cast as Pennywise the Clown (spider/werewolf/any other creepy thing that scares children). His work includes Hemlock Grove, and Divergent: Allegiant. Bill comes by his talent honestly; he is the younger brother of Alexander Skarsgard (True Blood), and the son of Stellan Skarsgard, (Avengers: Age of Ultron, and The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo).
The Losers Club also has its first member with Jaeden Lieberher being cast in the role of the young Bill Denborough, erstwhile leader of the Losers Club. Jaeden has had roles in St. Vincent and Midnight Special.
As of now, other cast members include:
Finn Wolfhard who has appeared in Supernatural and The 100
Jack Dylan Grazer whose work includes Tales of Halloween and Comedy Bang! Bang!
Wyatt Oleff: Guardians of the Galaxy, Once Upon a Time, and Scorpion .
Chosen Jacobs: Hawaii Five-O, FTS Kids News
Jeremy Ray Taylor who has been in 42 and Ant-Man
There is at this time no word on what their roles will be.
The man in the Director’s Chair will be Andres Muschietti, and the film will be produced by Barbara Muschietti, Roy Lee, Dan Lin, David Katzenberg and Seth Grahame-Smith.
Many thanks to the sites that I gleaned a lot of my information from – movieweb.com and joblo.com.
Reblogged this on Forty Two and commented:
Who can forget the creepy clown’s famous words… we all float down here , Georgie?
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Oh my god, I’m so excited for it! I’m a huge Skarsgard Fan! 😀
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I’m pretty excited to see it on the big screen. I haven’t really seen much of Bill S, but I did enjoy watching big brother. So I am also looking forward to adding another Skarsgard to my list of “must watch” actors, lol. 🙂
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