Pennywise will terrorize us again

[The Snellvillain]

For any of you who may have been as terrified of Pennywise as I was when I was a kid, you'll be glad (or sad) to know that it is being remade.

From Katey Rich of CinemaBlend:

Like so many kids corrupted by Stephen King's strange brain, I read It at an entirely inappropriate age-- young enough to be worried about clowns coming out the gutter and kidnapping me on my way home from piano lessons. But I never really bothered with the movie version, given that it was unbelievably cheesy even by mid-90s standards, and a giant spider is usually scarier in your imagination anyway.

But now that special effects have moved beyond Ray Harryhausen-style beasts, Warner Bros. is giving It another go, picking screenwriter Dave Kajganich to adapt the massive novel. The Variety article doesn't get in to exactly how they'll deal with a book that opens with the murder of a child, and also manages to feature a group of 12-year-olds having sex with one another. The first TV movie left out a lot of the grisly stuff, of course, but you have to assume a feature version would include a lot more, and have more leeway to appeal to the diehard fans.

I'm not really certain I want to see a movie that keeps the explicit stuff, given that I'm not sure I can handle some parts of that book that I apparently loved as a kid. But some of the themes in It are so fascinating, and King's movies have made some great films in the past, so there's a lot of potential here beyond the icky parts. If my 12-year-old self could handle it, I supposed I can suck it up now that I'm a grown-up wimp.

[rvrndzombii]

I love all of Stephen King's Books. I dont know if they should even touch this one though.. It will be tough to make any clown half as creepy as the original pennywise. If they try to go over the top he will come off as cheesy.. I'm sure I will have to see it though