Beep beep Cary, we all float down here. Even the turtle can't help It remake.
NewsCary Fukunaga has It, but It doesn’t have Cary Fukunaga. The director guided us through the murky backroads of Louisiana as the sole helmsman on the first season of True Detective, but dropped out of New Line’s feature adaptation of Stephen King’s It.
“The remake of IT may be dead--or undead--but we'll always have Tim Curry,” tweeted Stephen King, maniacally I hope. “He's still floating down in the sewers of Derry.”
The adaptation was going to be split up into two movies, but reports say New Line was thinking about slashing the budget to one. Fukunaga was reportedly adamant about making two separated films. As Stephen King said, in It, “You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for... and sooner or later whatever you own comes back home to you.”
Fukunaga joined the project in 2012 while it was still at Warner Bros. He co-wrote the script with Chase Palmer. Fukunaga also directed Jane Eyre from 2011. He won an Emmy for his work on True Detective.
Will Poulter was cast as the evil clown Pennywise last month. Mark Rylance and Ben Mendelsohn were also cast.
Stephen King published Itin 1986. It was adapted as a TV miniseries in 1991 starring John Ritter, Annette O'Toole, Harry Anderson, Richard Thomas, Tim Reid, Richard Masur, Seth Green and Tim Curry as Pennywhistle.
Production was set begin this summer. Now, who knows? Just don’t look into the dead lights.
SOURCE: THE WRAP
