"Will Poulter has emerged as the surprise choice to play Pennywise the clown – the leering villain previously played by Tim Curry – in Cary Fukunaga’s new two-part film based on Stephen King’s It, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Poulter, who is 22, is building a reputation in Hollywood after starring in comedy We’re the Millers and teen-oriented science fiction tale The Maze Runner in the past two years. The British actor first hit screens as an aspiring young film-maker in the 2007 coming-of-age drama Son of Rambow, and also starred as Eustace Scrubb in 2010’s The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.
Curry was in his mid-forties when he played his version of It, so Fukunaga’s decision to consider Poulter suggests the character will be significantly younger. Poulter, who is said to be in negotiations for the project, would appear in both movies as the killer clown who haunts a small Maine town as the main manifestation of the titular shapeshifting nastie."
Yeah, I think I read an article on cinemablend. Gist of their article is that the studio wants to make it one movie so it'll be jam packed and probably end up being crap. I don't really have high hopes for this anyway.
From a business standpoint you can't make it as 2 movies when you have no idea how successful the first will be. Because if the 1st one flops then you're left with half a reboot.
But it is too much for 1 film. That's why making this for the big screen was a bad idea.
If you create the story like the books you can establish a cliffhanger that entices a sequel return, with enough of a change in the film for it not to have felt stale.
I know 2 films is the better way to do it (without a doubt). What I'm saying is it's a bigger risk for the studio. If the first one flops what do they do?
Agreed. After the brilliance of True Detective, they should give the guy some freedom. Let him have a cliffhanger and if it's not successful enough for a sequel, oh well. The problem, though, is that he probably would want to film them both together.
Yeah, but my guess is that evil clowns aren't exactly the biggest box office draw in the world. I have friends that are legitimately frightened by even normal clowns.. lol
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