It’s a pretty big year for Stephen King fans, with a film adaptation of The Dark Tower, a new original show Castle Rock, a television adaptation of Mr. Mercedes, and more being announced/released. But the most exciting upcoming project has got to be the IT remake, a new adaptation of one of King’s most famous (and longest) novels.
The first trailer blew up online, with its terrifying new vision of Pennywise the Clown and 1980’s setting (as opposed to the 60’s setting in the novel). With just a few months until IT is released, a few people in the industry have seen an early cut, and at least one of them has high praise for the Andres Muschietti’s directed film.
“Andres’ adaptation of IT is one of the 5 scariest films ever made,” Hill confidently stated. “It’s tremendously humane. You love the characters in it. But it is just relentlessly terrifying.”
That quotes from author and Stephen King’s son Joe Hill, an accomplished writer in his own right.
“Only Jaws, The Exorcist, John Carpenter’s The Thing and Let the Right One In are scarier. It’s that good. It’s that brilliant.”
While I absolutely adore Let the Right One In, I’m not sure I’d say its one of the top five scariest films of all time, but if It really can stand next to films of such caliber as Jaws and The Thing, we might be looking at not just a great Stephen King adaptation but a horror film for the age. Guess we’ll have to wait until September to see if Hill knows what he’s talking about.
