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People, when making a mini-series from a book, it MUST be at least six hours long. Eight is better. Don’t even bother with four. You won’t get the nuances and you will rush through stuff.
I doubt they’ll show how Bev got them all to connect again. But please, come up with a better monster this time!
My thought process while reading that post:
“Redoing it? Redoing what? I suppose I could click on the link, but let me see what I can gleen from the post. Hmmm…‘Bev’…still not sure. Oh, ‘better monster this time’…they must be redoing It’! Oh…wait…she said that, didn’t she.” :smack:
And ditto to making it a decent length this time.
Ha, me too. I was like “Redoing what?” and then I saw mention of Bev and figured it out.
How exciting! Ideally I’d love to see Mick Garris attached to it, but I’ll just settle for anything over the old one. Gods…who the hell was responsible for the casting in that one? Bev didn’t have red hair, Ben wasn’t as fat as he should have been, Bill wasn’t bald when he grew up…even at the age of 13 or so, which I was when that version came out, I spent most of the movie yelling at the screen “Who the hell are these people??”
I did the same thing Hal.
Seems to me the tough part about re-doing this story is that the ending is very, umm, let’s say non-action oriented. I won’t go into details because of spoilers (and I don’t know how to do the tags). But basically seems to me it is pretty spiritual, and would not translate to pictures well.
On a related note, does anybody else think that despite Stephen King’s creative genius, he can’t write a proper ending?
If he could come up with endings, he wouldn’t need to make them so long.
Another problem is, it’s one of the worst pieces of crap King has ever written, and if you’re not a Baby Boomer who went through mid-life crisis whiney enough to glaze over the eyes of the whole cast and crew of Thirtysomething, it ain’t gonna resonate with you.
I’m not sure I follow… Steven King has been attached to write a miniseries about the development of the Segue?
[sup]Hey… what’s that down in the sewer?[/sup]
They’re making a mini-series about those Ebay commercials? I don’t think they’re that good.
I’ve never thought King’s books translate well to the screen. He doesn’t rely so much on blood and gore to scare you as that monster under the bed…you know, the one you were terrified of as a kid…he brings that kind of frignt to his books, to me. When I saw the first version of The Shining, and the blood came pouring out of the elevator, I was so pissed! I was like “where in hell did that come from? And where are the hedge animals?”
But after reading “Gerald’s Game” I have and will never participate in consentual bondage unless I can chew through the restraints.
I got very thirsty reading that book.
I think his psychological horrors translate better to the big screen (Misery, Shawshank, The Body) rather than his monster movies (Dreamscape, It, Salem’s Lot.) Face it, the creature you conjure in your mind is way scarier than anything Hollywood can design.
Can I just say that I hope Tim Curry is Pennywise again? He was awesome
I rather liked It, even though I didn’t grow up remotely like that. But the ending really sucked.
Oh yes. The Stand, anyone?
As for Gerald’s game, they make handcuffs that the tied-up person can release if they need to. Just sayin’.
I’d like to see a second try at It. My main problem with the first version was the continuity. My favorite thing about the book was the back-and-forth in the timeline. You didn’t know what happened to them as kids until they got there again as adults. I remember watching the miniseries with my Dad, and both of us being royally pissed that night one was all kid-time, and night two was the grownups.
They’re never going to include how Bev kept the boys from breaking down, and that’s kind of a shame–it’s one of the more powerful moments in the book. Of course, I can understand why they’d leave it out of prime-time television.
Aw, hell. Now I have to reread the whole damn thing. sigh
Screw IT. When are they going to finish THE TALISMAN, fer cripes sake!!!
Umm, if it’s the scene I think you’re talking about…eww. Squick. And it’s all in the dark anyway. How could you see anything??
Aaack, now I’m trying to remember what that scene is. I haven’t read the book since around the time the miniseries came out, and I don’t remember much about it except for the clown, the kids/adults time shifting, and the sucky ending.
Can someone remind me what the Bev thing is all about (um, in a PG-13 way if necessary…)?
But, Tim Curry was fantastic in the last one. He was pants-wetting, nightmare-inducing good.
He transcended acting.
He floated.
We all float down here.
You’ll float too.
I’ll say. Yuck!
I have to admit, I did like the miniseries, even if it was totally off from the book. I thought the casting was well-done.
I too have only a vague recollection of that bit… something about her having sex with everyone (on a Segue) or some such thing. Anyone wanna help us out and be a bit more descriptive?
Okokoko.k…
They are heading back from It the first time, thinking they have defeated it, in the darkness. However it’s power is still working on them and they begin to grow apart and cranky with each other. Eddie loses his way and bill gets angry. Suddenly Bev knows the way to fix them.
IN the dark she proceeds to have sex with each and every one of them. It sounds lurid but it’s described nicely in the book, and basically you understand that this closeness, this human contact, is as opposite from It as can be and the only thing we can defeat it with, other than the innocence of childhood. When they return they’ve lost their innocence but not the closeness and the bond forged on this day.
Mika pretty much took care of that–it’s not necessarily a pretty scene, but it’s powerful, and it’s always stuck with me. Of course, as I said somewhere up there, it’s not something we’re ever going to see in prime-time television.