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ITdirector Andrés Muschietti has hold that he"wasn’t a big fan"of the 1990 miniseries based on author Stephen King ’s classic repugnance novel . Twenty - seven years ago , ITscared the wits out of television viewing audience when the adaptation of King ’s 1986 bestselling novel was presented in two terrifying part on ABC - TV .
The narrative of a group of pre - teen misfits tormented by the demented clown , Pennywise ( Tim Curry ) , the series no doubt result in phobias of the circus role player , especially for viewers the same years as the protagonists in the story .
Apparently not one of the hoi polloi affected by theITminiseries is Muschietti , who in three weeks is unleashing his heatedly - anticipated , R - snitch motion picture version of the twisted narration in movie theater with Bill Skarsgard as Pennywise . In an audience withSFXMagazine , the director give an honest answer about his touch sensation towards the 1990s TV version of the story :
" To be honest , I was n’t a braggart sports fan of the miniseries . I was not a child any longer when it came out in 1990 . So my attachment was very much to the book and to the domain of Stephen King more than the miniseries . "
That ’s not to say that Muschietti does n’t understand how the miniseries messed with people ’s psyches :
" I totally acknowledge how iconic that miniseries was for a coevals . But also you have to say that it impacted that genesis because they saw it with very new eyes as a idiot box movie or on VHS . A mountain of people do n’t commend the whole thing , but they are terrified of the iconic scenes of the clown behind the flat solid in the beginning and the storm drain . "
Just because the film did n’t affect Muschietti in the same way it terrorise looker , fans should n’t book the helmer ’s remarks against him . Apart from cultural phenomenons likeStar WarsandStar Trek , very few movie or TV display have the same effect on viewer that traverse generations - and in the pillow slip of Muschietti andIT , he was simply in a phase angle of his life where such puerility terrors did n’t affect him any longer .
In fact , lover should comprehend a director who"wasn’t a freehanded fan"of the miniseries , since he clearly wo n’t be influenced by what came before him . genuine , the heart of the story will likely remain the same , except for this meter it will be told through a fresh vision that look as shuddery , if not scarier , as it did before .
No matter how standardized or different Muschietti ’s version ofITends up being , the pursuit is certainly there . Not only wasITteaser traileran online smash success in terms of views , the picture is project to have thebiggest September opening everwith $ 50 million or more in its first weekend of handout . With that sort of reception , maybe Muschietti will get hiswish to remake King ’s horror hitPet Sematarynext .
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