IT......

[j2sgam]

..this could be really fuggin badass or really fuggin bad... Im leaning towards the former......

 

 

[CRA]

I wish people were more creative.  They remake everything now.  Or maybe I am just getting old and they have always remade at this pace. 

I still think it will be hard to top the original.   IT IMO isn't really that easy to pull off as a remake.   Clowns are tough to get right.

[rodeo]

6 hours ago, CRA said:

I wish people were more creative.  They remake everything now.  Or maybe I am just getting old and they have always remade at this pace. 

I still think it will be hard to top the original.   IT IMO isn't really that easy to pull off as a remake.   Clowns are tough to get right.

To be fair this isn't a remake, this is another (more faithful) adaptation of the book. King has seen it and said he absolutely loves it.

The trailer looks great, I'm cautiously optimistic.

[j2sgam]

The book was 1143 pages, really tough to fit it all in a movie... the old mini series couldn't due it justice with 4+hrs of tv time, but tv....

 

trailer does look intriguing, ain't tryin to lie....

 

yes, Hollywood is out of ideas, have been for a while. That's why there's 8 fast & furious, 3 phases of Marvel movies, 7 signed StarWars movies, all the biographies & "true stories" and old tv shows making the modern big screen.. I think it was MrScot years ago posted a list of movie reboots in the works, quite a few have been done already.... Still waiting on the damn Swamp Thing......

[Jangler]

If Annette O'Toole isn't in it, idgf.

;)

Stephen King is hard to translate over to film. Cujo could be remade today and show the thoughts of the dog, the way the book did. Cujo was a good boy, yes you were! eh...

The Gunslinger, or Dark Tower, should be a tv show, HBO.. but they think they can do movie series instead. Mistake. imo

[Zaximus]

Remakes annoy me but let's be honest, a lot of King's stuff needs remade, and that's just because his vision can be better realized nowadays with movie making.

Take The Stand for instance.   That could be an epic series of movies and is the scope would be larger nowadays.

Some stuff shouldn't be.  Christine is fine, etc.   

[Zaximus]

3 hours ago, Jangler said:

If Annette O'Toole isn't in it, idgf.

;)

Stephen King is hard to translate over to film. Cujo could be remade today and show the thoughts of the dog, the way the book did. Cujo was a good boy, yes you were! eh...

The Gunslinger, or Dark Tower, should be a tv show, HBO.. but they think they can do movie series instead. Mistake. imo

I thought they were doing Dark Tower movie and then a TV series as well..... they were at least.

[j2sgam]

Dark Tower series would be fuggin awesome, done right of course, I'd really like to see that...

A new Stand could be really good too, just get TrashcanMan right...

Really, thinking about Hollywood being out of ideas, and how movies turn into long-running franchises, there's 2 you could get from King novels. 1 series of movies on Flagg, The Walking Dude from The Stand, Flagg from Eyes of the Dragon and he was in the Dark Tower & more.. Also do Bangor, or is it Castle Rock? The town he made up in Maine for a few of his stories, I remember references in a few books to Sheriff Pangborn, who was killed by Cujo... 

 

Wiki says there's a DarkTower in the making with McConaughey as Flagg, or Walter o'Dim as it were....

[stankowalski]

IT and The Stand are my favorite King books.  I didn't like the mini-series they did on IT or The Stand.  I'll probably watch any new stuff but I don't have much faith in them getting it right.

[pstall]

Im by no means a King fan boy but good friend of mine is and he tells me Dark Tower brings many worlds together. 

[Jangler]

Another great book from SK that could be a good TV series. The Talisman. The only problem is, who did LSD and reads fiction, to do it right? Nobody in Hollywood that's for sure.

[Doyle]

If you've never read The Long Walk you're missing out on one of Kings best stories.  Apparently it was the first novel he ever wrote but wasn't released until he did the Bachman books.  A movie has been rumored for years.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Walk

[Shocker]

I really hope they get this right.  The original was good, if not campy but the book was amazing.  This needs to be really dark and really scary. 

[RealBitsOfPanther]

This looks terrifying. Can't wait!