Pennywise

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Sigmund

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I like it very much. I especially like the eyes and how the edges of his face cracks. :icon_eek:

I think it's silly for anyone to compare him to Tim Curry. Why would he try to do Tim Curry doing Pennywise? He's going to do Pennywise his way. (Moving the time from the 50's to the 80's will be interesting IMO.)
 

Doc Creed

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I like this casting choice. I hope the voice isn't over the top or too gruff, though, (like an off-duty clown, lol "get outta heah kid!") but strangely seductive like the Satan character in Passion of the Christ. I'm thinking of the deadlights and the peculiar lure of Its eyes, voice in the book; At the same time Pennywise could easily slip into the fun carnival clown persona...so much so that Georgie Denbrough wasn't necessarily afraid of him(It). Just my reflections.
 

Robert Gray

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I think the visual is good marketing, but it has little effect on me one way or the other. I'm not being a sourpuss on purpose, but it is the script/story that interests me. I never had any doubt that the visuals will be impressive. That is all Hollywood or Canadawood seems to get right these days. To quote Sai King when he talks about books which are beautifully written in so far as language but lacking in story, it is like having an awesome looking car without an engine. What good is it? I'm not writing the remake off, I'm just not thrilled with the rumors about them changing the time period and other rewrites which I think are unnecessary or downright destructive. I will say this, however, I'm more forgiving of the change in decades if the story stays fundamentally intact than I am of the changes that are happening in the Dark Tower movie. I can accept (grudgingly) a temporal setting shift if the story remains fundamentally intact. I would just prefer the original setting because I truly believe that context is important to the story, vitally important. Time will tell.
 

Pucker

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I would just prefer the original setting because I truly believe that context is important to the story, vitally important.

Well ...

I'll get blasted for saying this (and rightly so), but if time and tide have taught us anything, the only thing that is "vitally" important is that there are enough zeroes on the check.
 

OldDarth

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Me too - AB! Stranger Things is awesome.

Pics of the Bowers Boys - tidbit, Nicholas Hamilton - baseball cap and muscle shirt - was up for the role of Jake in the Dark Tower movie but lost out to Tom Taylor. He is in the Dark Tower movie as a friend of Jake's:

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