![]() At 57 years old, Weaving would have been a much older Pennywise than the more boyish Skarsgård and Poulter, but it's fun to think about the steely menace he would've brought to the role. The actor who played Pennywise (Bill Skarsgård) turned 27 just a little more than a month before the movies. The other actor in the running was Hugo Weaving, the Australian thespian famous for playing Agent Smith in The Matrix and Elrond in the Lord of the Rings films. Kajganich spoke of the remake being set in the, 'mid-1980s and in the present mirroring the twenty-odd-year gap King uses in the book and with a great deal of care and attention paid to the backstories of all the characters.'. "It was a personal decision I respected, but I was eager and willing to find my own Pennywise and that’s what we did."įollowing Poulter's departure, there were also rumors of an older actor being cast in the role. "Will basically expressed a feeling that he had slowly disengaged from playing that character, that was so dark and terrifying," said Muschietti in an interview with Deadline. Though Fukunaga is still credited on the movie's screenplay, many of his ideas were abandoned in rewrites and the actor he cast in the role of Pennywise, Will Poulter of The Maze Runner and Detroit, also left the production. for years and eventually walked away from the production over creative differences. Theres not a lot really to recommend it once youve seen the first, but the 80s nostalgia always makes me smile. 2017s remake is a good film, a decent retelling and closer to Kings novel. He wasn't the first actor cast in the roleīefore director Andy Muschietti began working on this new version of IT, True Detective filmmaker Cary Fukunaga was developing the project for Warner Bros. Its as important to 90s horror as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is to 70s horror. (Oddly enough, he was also recently cast in Hulu's Castle Rock, which takes inspiration from King's Maine multiverse.) In some ways, he resembles many other hunky young actors, but if you look closer at his sharp cheekbones and penetrating eyes, you start to get a sense of why he was given such a daunting role. So, who did Muschietti find to follow in Curry's clown-shaped shoe footsteps? Bill Skarsgård, a 27-year-old Swedish actor who you might recognize from this year's Charlize Theron gun-fu thriller Atomic Blonde, the YA sequel The Divergent Series: Allegiant, or the ( very bad) Netflix horror series Hemlock Grove. It's a bit like taking on the role of the Joker after it's been played by Jack Nicholson and Heath Ledger. For one thing, you have to compete with the cultural memory of Tim Curry's portrayal of the sewer-lurking clown in the 1990 ABC miniseries adaptation. He can be seen next in “The Revenant,” which opens on Christmas Day, and is attached to “Yellowbirds” opposite Tye Sheridan.Pennywise is one of literature's most memorable villains, a shape-shifter who reappears every 27 years to strike fear into the hearts of children, and playing him would be an obvious creative challenge for any actor. Variety reports that We’re the Millers actor Will Poulter has landed the role of Pennywise, a terrifying monster who lures children while dressed as a clown. Fukunaga has scripts for both ready, with Poulter appearing in both films, making him the star of the project. Since the original novel ran at about 900 pages and spanned several decades, the plan is for New Line to shoot one movie focusing on the protagonists as kids and another focusing on them as adults. Insiders who have seen early footage feel that Poulter, 22, is more than ready for a villainous lead. In the Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu film, he plays one of the robbers who leaves DiCaprio for dead after he is mauled in the wilderness by a bear. While the role is dark and evil, sources say Poulter is more than capable of taking on the character especially after his work on New Regency’s “The Revenant,” starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Sources say in the end, Fukunaga could not say no after being blown away by Poulter’s audition for the part and felt he was the right choice for the role. ![]() With just a few months to go until the big screen remake of Stephen Kings IT hits theaters, Pennywise makes his way onto the cover of Mad Movies. New Line also distributed Poulter’s “We’re the Millers,” which co-starred Jennifer Aniston and Jason Sudeikis. Ahead of the films release, a terrifying new image of Pennywise the Clown from Stephen Kings IT surfaces on a French magazine cover. Production will begin this summer.Īfter considering older actors like Mark Rylance and Ben Mendelsohn for the Pennywise role, New Line wanted to take a different route and go younger. Niija Kuykendall, Dave Neustadter and Walter Hamada are overseeing for Warner Bros. Seth Grahame-Smith and David Katzenberg are also producing through their KatzSmith banner while Dan Lin and Roy Lee are also producing. Fukunaga penned the screenplay along with Chase Palmer. The It Remake Found Its Pennywise By JOSEPH BAXTER published The upcoming new film adaptation of Stephen King ’s novel, It has just cast the story’s evil eponymous pronoun of a.
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