With cameras set to start rolling in three weeks, things are looking dire for the two-part big screen adaption of Stephen King’s IT, with re...
With cameras set to start rolling in three weeks, things are looking dire for the two-part big screen adaption of Stephen King’s IT, with reports from The Hollywood Reporter revealing that True Detective’s Cary Fukunaga has vacated the director’s chair, citing creative differences over the budget of the planned movies between Fukunaga and New Line Cinema. The project was then kicked while it was down with a tweet from King stating that the project was dead, or at the very least not going ahead at New Line.
The remake of IT may be dead--or undead--but we'll always have Tim Curry. He's still floating down in the sewers of Derry.
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) May 25, 2015Will Poulter (The Maze Runner) was recently cast as evil clown Pennywise, famously brought to life by Tim Curry in the 90’s mini series, which followed a group of childhood friends reuniting years later to finally defeat the monster who plagued them as children. This could have been an indication of unrest between Fukunaga and the studio, with New Line insisting that the director skew younger when casting the movie’s antagonist, while he was looking to go older with the likes of Ben Mendelsohn (Black Sea) and Mark Rylance (The Gunman, Steven Spielberg’s upcoming The BFG). Another studio could come to the rescue, but this moment of time, any chance of Pennywise menacing cinema goers is very slim indeed.
