IT 2017

The trailer for the 2017 adaptation of Stephen King's It is now out! We need a trope page for this now.

edited 29th Mar '17 9:45:53 AM by kraas

Good trailer. Pennywise's run through the water is a little silly-looking, however...

Well this was a bad thing to watch at 1 A.M .

They had me when the boy run against the barricade....it was kind of funny, which made what followed so much worse because we all know what will happen.

I might watch it, but it cant compete with the original. its too iconic. hell it was pretty fantastic. It probably cant live up to the original, but I have high hopes it will be good.

I'm more interested in the dark tower film, the books were brilliant. and I'm looking forward to a film in the setting. hope they don't screw it up

Honestly, if they put in the tortoise which accidentally vomited out the universe because she felt ill, the new take wins....

Who shot who in the what now? XD

Was part of the cosmology in the book exactly as described.

IT was really, really weird.

edited 29th Mar '17 5:23:42 PM by Draghinazzo

actually thats from the dark tower series, not IT. the vomiting turtle in question was called mandurin or something. its been a while since i read the series.

It had the Turtle in it as well.

edited 29th Mar '17 6:45:44 PM by dragonfire5000

Never read the Dark Tower, but it is part of It, too. It was a totally WTF moment when I was reading the book. Honestly, if they do the whole cosmic fight in the end, they win with their adaptation.

Who's playing the Clara Bow part?

That's one of those jokes you waited a long time to tell, yes?

edited 30th Mar '17 12:17:19 PM by ArthurEld

Something I like about the trailer is that It appears like any other mindless monster from horror movies. No lines, just jump scares and the general "looking ugly" thing.

I like it because it doesn't spoil the best aspect about It, that It is a really intelligent, malevolent and insidious force that is much more than your typical slasher monster of the week.

I mean, for those of us who have seen the previous movie or read the book it's not a surprise, but I want to think that newcomers will be shocked and terrified when they see the true extent of It and why It is considered such a terrifying monster.

I say this based on some comments from people who think the trailer spoils the movie by showing the monster. If they only knew.

I take it they don't know anything about the shape-shifting then :p

I just saw the trailer on Youtube and thought I'd be the first person here. :(

Never read the book and only saw portions of the original film, but the concept of Pennywise always fascinated me.

I've read a lot of the book. It's looooooooooong, probably overly so if I'm honest and has a few genuinely iffy scenes/concepts that are hard to defend but I think the idea of Pennywise and the general premise of the story is enough to make it worthwhile.

That's why I'm looking forward to this.

My main issue with the book is that it sometimes offensive for the sake of being offensive. It is also incredible long-winded, because only half of the story is actually about how terrified the children are, and the other half is more about the town in general being racist, sexist, homophobe and way too ready to just bury problems.

But I actually wouldn't change anything about it except for one thing: I really don't see the point of adding a mass orgy between a bunch of children.

edited 3rd Apr '17 1:14:04 AM by Swanpride

Yeah I really hope the adaptation edits that out since I see little point in preserving it.

Do you honestly think that would ever have a snowball's chance in Hell of making it in?

Honestly? Not really.

edited 3rd Apr '17 9:39:21 AM by Draghinazzo

I don't think I'd say that half the story is about the town and it's blindness to what's going on. I'd say the vast majority of the book is about the kids, or the same kids after they've grown up. It has the same sort of little inclusions that The Stand does, starting out in very broad terms and taking time to show a number of occasions where the story is viewed from the perspective of minor characters. I enjoyed the book as a whole, but you could easily trim all the stuff not directly dealing with the kids out and not lose much. The book wouldn't be so much of a doorstopper then, but that's the way King wrote back in the 80's. It feels a little like he started the book casting around for a handle, and then struck on one when he got to the kids.

I will say that I think the town, and the way the adults have become blind to IT, is an important theme though. When the main cast grows up, it's something they have to contend with in themselves, too.

It has been a while since I read the book completely since I have developed a habit to jump to the relevant parts, but I remember distinctively that there are a number of stories put into it which are somewhat related to IT so that the children can discover the connection, but play out more like separate stories within the story. Like the whole arc about the black dance club being built and how it burned down.

I liked how King was careful to display everyone's basic humanity, even the bullies. Henry Bowers relationship with his father, and his pal Belch's one great achievement in life being knocking the cover of a baseball during a backlot baseball game. Made them that much more sad and pathetic.

One of King's strengths as a horror writer is humanising characters and getting them to feel like real people reacting to things rather than slasher-style cyphers simply waiting to get killed. You don't have to like the characters but very few of them are flat or entirely without sympathetic qualities. Unfortunately it's quite hard to replicate on screen, a show with a couple of exercises could do it maybe but in a single film it's going to be hard.

As to this new adaptation, well it's aiming high given the regard of the original. Be interesting to see how the new Pennywise plays out as there's no chance of out-Tim-Currying Tim Curry so a new angle needs to be found. From the trailer they seem to be emphasising the monster over the clown but can't tell too much from a trailer.