Calling all Stephen King fans! It is here at last, the latest adaptation of King’s horrific novel IT.
Now, I know what you may be thinking: “The original was best! No one will top Tim Curry’s Pennywise!” but I assure you this will be worth a cinema trip.
Andres Muschietti directs the newest edition of the two-part film version of the story. It follows a group of Derry (Maine) teens who are attacked by the malevolent clown Pennywise played by the wonderful Bill Skarsgard. The first movie will consist of the part of the novel set from 1957 to 1958, “The Losers Club.”, and opens in cinemas very soon.
“The terror, which would not end for another twenty-eight years—if it ever did end—began, so far as I know or can tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain.
The boat bobbed, listed, righted itself again, dived bravely through treacherous whirlpools, and continued on its way down Witcham Street…”
