I'd be satisfied with theater actors or character actors that aren't that well known but I'd understand if, to boost box office sales, they get a few bankable big names.
IT- Adult Cast Suggestions
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The only one I really want is Jessica Chastain. But given the surprising performance of Chapter 1, I think the studio could comfortably go with lesser-known actors and be confident that the audience will be there.
IT (2017) was 2 hours and 15 minutes. What would be a good length for the next chapter? I'd sit for three hours, would you? Let me know.
In the novel we are introduced to our lead characters as adults (excepting Bill and Georgie's scene as children) via Six Phone Calls which is followed by childhood flashbacks for each character. In the new film the audience is first introduced to the Losers as children so the Six Phone Calls section may be rewritten or abbreviated. We have the advantage of knowing our protagonists pretty well by now so we will be ready for the action to launch.
I predict the director will start the film with a festival scene which will culminate with a glimpse of Pennywise or a red balloon, then the opening title. I think the adults will be introduced briefly in their current lives away from Derry but we won't see each phone call punctuated by a flashback. Maybe the flashbacks will be used sparingly to fill in important emotional backstory that was glossed over in the first film. However it unfolds I think it will be inventive and fun. My hopes are high.
In the novel we are introduced to our lead characters as adults (excepting Bill and Georgie's scene as children) via Six Phone Calls which is followed by childhood flashbacks for each character. In the new film the audience is first introduced to the Losers as children so the Six Phone Calls section may be rewritten or abbreviated. We have the advantage of knowing our protagonists pretty well by now so we will be ready for the action to launch.
I predict the director will start the film with a festival scene which will culminate with a glimpse of Pennywise or a red balloon, then the opening title. I think the adults will be introduced briefly in their current lives away from Derry but we won't see each phone call punctuated by a flashback. Maybe the flashbacks will be used sparingly to fill in important emotional backstory that was glossed over in the first film. However it unfolds I think it will be inventive and fun. My hopes are high.
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i'd sit for 5 hours if it's anything like the first one
I'd have happily sat through Chapter 1 for 3 hours. I can't see the second going beyond 2hrs 20mins though, unless the studio is really generous. One thing I do know is the director REALLY wanted to include scenes of Pennywise in ancient times, so I hope we get that in the second film.
I agree. I have been perplexed by some fans saying the film was too long. They do realize the book is over a thousand pages, right?
Those people clearly are not fans.
This is from Lilja's Library:
Disturbing Scene Cut From IT
Posted: September 19, 2017, 19:44:12
Section: Film » It
Bill Skarsgård revealed in an interview that IT originally included a scene that even he considered "disturbing."
"There was a scene we shot that was a flashback from the 1600s, before Pennywise [was Pennywise]," he explained on an episode of Variety's Playback podcast. "The scene turned out really, really disturbing. And I'm not the clown. I look more like myself. It's very disturbing, and sort of a backstory for what It is, or where Pennywise came from."
It would be even sweeter if they turned it into a trilogy.......
It would be even sweeter if they turned it into a trilogy.......
Bet they regret that now!
Bill Skarsgard will be the only person that gets to be in both movies. Pennywise doesn't age.
Read a breakdown of that scene last week.
Pennywise is bartering with a woman to take her newborn infant. In return he promises to spare her other children, giving her a variation of the "weeds" speech we saw in the movie.
It would have been awesome.
I'd sit for three hours or more easily, so long as they inserted an intermission for a bathroom and popcorn refill break. My TWB (teeny, weeny bladder) can't handle long movies.
I think I said this somewhere else, but during my showing, lots of people were getting up and going to bathroom. At first, I thought they were leaving and I was thinking, Oh No! But then they came back. They always come back. Sometimes.I'd sit for three hours or more easily, so long as they inserted an intermission for a bathroom and popcorn refill break. My TWB (teeny, weeny bladder) can't handle long movies.
I'm not sure if they make 3+ hour movies anymore. I can't wait to see IT chapter 2. I truly enjoyed part 1.
I'd sit for three hours or more easily, so long as they inserted an intermission for a bathroom and popcorn refill break. My TWB (teeny, weeny bladder) can't handle long movies.
I remember seeing Gettysburg at the theater as a Senior in highschool and boy, was it a long movie. There was a fifteen minute intermission. I think if it were 3 or 4 hours that would be long enough to warrant an intermission. Usually they do it for serious, artsy films. Didn't The Godfather III have an intermission? Musicals from the Fifties and Sixties have them, too.I think I said this somewhere else, but during my showing, lots of people were getting up and going to bathroom. At first, I thought they were leaving and I was thinking, Oh No! But then they came back. They always come back. Sometimes.
I know Gone With the Wind had an intermission.
It would be even sweeter if they turned it into a trilogy.......
Oh man. You got me thinking and I think a trilogy would've been great. The first movie could've still started with Georgie and then go into a mixture of character development for each of the Losers, including their personal scares, and also some of the It backstory through flashbacks to colonial times, the Black Spot, the Bradley Gang, etc. The second movie could have spent more time tracking the group as they tried to figure out how to fight It and then have all the climactic action scenes (the house on Neibolt St, the sewers) that were in the latter part of the actual first movie. And then the third movie could be all about them coming back as adults.
6-7 hours in total would have been almost enough time to cover everything, and if they were still going to tell the story chronologically as opposed to flipping back and forth between the kids and adults then I think spending 2/3 of the total time on the kids is about right.
Kinda hope b...b...buh...Bill is bald, like in the book. Dunno why. Gravitas, maybe? Authenticity? I mean, we don't need a buncha pretty boy d-bags all over the place.
Long as it ain't John Boy with a pony tail. Blecch.
Long as it ain't John Boy with a pony tail. Blecch.