Cary Fukunaga is still looking for the "perfect" Pennywise for his IT remake...
NewsAccording to Bloody Disgusting via Portuguese newspaper O Globo, Cary Fukunaga, the director of the upcoming IT remake, has spent a really long time trying to find the perfect actor to play Pennywise the Clown, the iconic villain of the book and the 1990 TV film. The wonderful Tim Curry, of course, portrayed the monster in said film.
But Fukunaga can't seem to find anyone to fit the bill as well as Curry did 15 years ago...
I’ve been in this project for about five years. I had already read versions of the script but nothing felt right. Everybody tried to put too much into it, telling it from the perspective of the adult and the child in a two hour movie. It didn’t fit. So I decided to throw it all away and start from scratch.
This will be my first movie in the U.S. and I’m still trying to find the perfect guy to play Pennywise. It’s really good to know Stephen [King] likes what we did. We (Fukunaga and writers David Kajganich and Chase Palmer) changed names, dates (the story is originally set in the 60′s) dynamics, but the spirit is similar to what he’d like to see in cinemas, I think.
Let's hope Fukunaga can find someone soon, since the film is set to begin production this summer. Sorry, but Jared Leto is already taken...
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