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Post by forca85 on Jul 2, 2024 18:58:28 GMT
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Post by Captain Spencer on Jul 2, 2024 19:39:53 GMT
Wouldn't mind seeing this. The way Stephen King described the town of Derry in the novel It was fascinating.
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Post by forca85 on Jul 4, 2024 21:20:59 GMT
Wouldn't mind seeing this. The way Stephen King described the town of Derry in the novel It was fascinating. I'm excited Madeline Stowe was cast. I loved her on "Revenge". I could see her being a Mayor's Wife. Or a shady person in power.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Jul 5, 2024 16:20:30 GMT
I just saw recently that even though Bill Skaarsgard said he would not be reprising this role ever again, that he now has signed on to do this show.
I don't have high hopes for this. I love all of the texture and history of the town in the book, but there's not much of that in the movie's depiction of Derry, and the changing decades robs a lot of those old stories of their impact... kinda like they did in the movies. Like the 2nd movie opening with a hate crime against a gay couple means less today than it did in 1985. I know that can still happen, but it would have been more raw and more immediately recognizable then. If they relay some of those great stories from the book, like the Black Spot club fire where the racist grandfather of the racist bully attacked the black night club and created this horrible event with Pennywise watching along in the shape of a large bird... that could look silly if down faithfully, for one thing, but that scene taking place in the 30s is kind of important to its meaning. Sure, hate crimes like that could have happened in the 60s in Maine, but it's not the same.
Plus, the allusions to the origin of Pennywise in the book are elusive and cryptic but very interesting, and include these kinds of old stories (some of which were apparently deleted scenes from the movies), but if they try to explain too much it's gonna be annoying, and the depictions of IT as it was defeated robs it of all of its power in my mind anyway. It was a terrible ending that makes it less engaging to learn more about it.
I don't know, there's a good amount of material there, and it could be expanded upon, but I don’t entirely trust this creative team to do it the right way. I'm sure I'll check out though. I still hope it's good.
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Post by forca85 on Jul 5, 2024 16:52:09 GMT
You probably already know this... But for those who don't. The Gay bashing was based on a real Case. Stephen King had been so haunted reading about it he put it in his book. Just a way to show Evil has a way of permeating through the decades. His name was Charlie Howard. And he was killed in King's hometown and thrown off a Bridge.
But I agree something was lost in setting the Childhood scenes in the 80's... I have a feeling "Welcome to Derry" will be set in the 1950's due to the Clothes characters wear. But I could be wrong.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Jul 5, 2024 19:31:11 GMT
You probably already know this... But for those who don't. The Gay bashing was based on a real Case. Stephen King had been so haunted reading about it he put it in his book. Just a way to show Evil has a way of permeating through the decades. His name was Charlie Howard. And he was killed in King's hometown and thrown off a Bridge. But I agree something was lost in setting the Childhood scenes in the 80's... I have a feeling "Welcome to Derry" will be set in the 1950's due to the Clothes characters wear. But I could be wrong. From your link above: "The series will begin in the 1960s in the time leading up to the events of It: Part One." So while it's not quite 1958 as it was in the book, you weren't far off. So it appears they're gonna try to capture the tone of that sort of Americana. I just think the best way to do it would be to jump around to all of those other stories that King peppers throughout the book. If they're gonna give us a group of friends in the early 60s dealing with Pennywise I think it'll just kinda feel like a retread.
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Post by forca85 on Aug 5, 2024 16:49:14 GMT
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Post by masterofallgoons on Aug 5, 2024 16:57:37 GMT
VERY little to go on there, but so far it's not doing much for me.
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Post by forca85 on Aug 5, 2024 20:42:09 GMT
VERY little to go on there, but so far it's not doing much for me. Eh that's fair. I'm pretty satisfied. Just a little taste. But I tend to avoid most trailers. Too much Spoilers for me.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Aug 6, 2024 14:46:39 GMT
VERY little to go on there, but so far it's not doing much for me. Eh that's fair. I'm pretty satisfied. Just a little taste. But I tend to avoid most trailers. Too much Spoilers for me. Yeah I get that, but I watch a lot of trailers. Again, there's almost nothing to go on here except for a little bit of a visual tone, which didn't grab me. But there's every chance I'll appreciate seeing more.
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