Holy Sh - IT!

I gotta say - I'm excited.

I just saw the trailer for the upcoming IT movie.

That is some serious booga-booga right there. I think I'm like a lot of people who read the novel and saw the old TV movie with Tim Curry as the titular murderclown. I was worried they'd fuck it up. Royally. Tim Curry was amazing. Terrifying. The movie was actually pretty good even if the adults were not well cast. And of course, TV - especially in 1990 - just can't cover all the subject matter. But they did a hell of a job with one hell of a book.

So now it's the 24th and a half century and the only movie that gets made it a movie based on a movie. I can't wait until most movies so fucking meta that they're movies about movies about movies based on movies that are adapted from the novelization of a movie.

I'm concerned. What dumb shit will they do? How can there be a clown without Tim Curry? Will they add a witty, talking raccoon because people seem to like those? Are they making it R rated just because they can and that also seems like a thing that audiences are clamoring for?

Fuck. I was nervous.

But that trailer? Now I'm not so nervous. I understand that there's probably another hundred and forty eight minutes of movie I still haven't seen. but those two look pretty ok.

Like scary as hell. And the clown? Yeah, he'll do just fine, thanks.

The other excitement bursting from me like Geiger art from John Hurt is another Stephen King adaptation. The Dark Tower has been around my whole life and its mythology is woven throughout the stories of Stephen King - including IT. 

I am hopeful (read: cautiously optimistic) about this movie. It has good leads - Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey - and it is one movie that will require the best of modern digital wizardry to bring to life fantastical places, people and events in a properly convincing way.

Strangely enough, there is no trailer yet for The Dark Tower, which will hit theaters about three months before IT. There was a rough cut trailer leaked online last October. I got to see it before the NSA scrubbed it form the internet. It was every bit as promising as the one embedded above. Of course, when movies have pushed back release dates and what seems like limited publicity, ya might wanna worry.

Anyway. Fingers crossed. And poster ain't bad.