I'm more excited about this than anything else Hollywood has cooking.

I always hated the original ABC miniseries, and while I get why some people love it (and how that has everything to do with Tim Curry's iconic performance as Pennywise) that movie was really a piss poor adaptation of the novel. I'm a pretty big Stephen King fan, but IT is my favorite novel of his, and the movie they made out of it is one of the crappiest adaptations.

So now Cary Fukunaga (True Detective) is directing, and has stated that he wants to do justice to the original novel... Stephen King read the screenplay and was apparently thrilled.

aaaaaand now they've cast the role of Pennywise.



Not what I was expecting, but at least they're obviously going in a different direction with this?
Really though, if they did a gritty, disturbing version of IT, it could be the greatest horror film ever. I'm not going to expect that, but I'm keeping my hopes up that this will be at least a little great.