As you may recall, New Line’s big screen adaptation of Stephen King‘s killer clown epic IT was originally going to be directed by Cary Fukunaga (“True Detective,” No Time to Die), who was on board the project until a final hour replacement brought Andy Muschietti into the director’s chair instead. What exactly happened there, and what was Fukunaga’s vision like?
Fukunaga reflects in a new profile piece from The Hollywood Reporter this week.
“I was on that for four or five years with Warners and then it got moved to New Line, right before we were about to go into production,” Fukunaga recalls. “I think New Line’s view of what they wanted and my view of what I wanted were very different. I wanted to do a drama with horror elements, more like The Shining.”
The director continues, “I think they wanted to do something more [pure horror] like Annabelle [from the Conjuring films]. That was essentially the disconnect.”
Fukunaga and Chase Palmer had spent years working on the script and were *this* close to filming before they exited the project, with Will Poulter set to play their Pennywise.
Filming on Fukunaga’s version of IT was supposed to kick off in the summer of 2015, with the news his departure from the project surprising us all just a few short weeks prior.
source https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3683995/cary-fukunaga-explains-adaptation-stephen-kings-wouldve-like-shining/
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