| rdfs:comment | - It is a 2014 American Supernatural Horror film. It is the second film adaption of Stephen King's 1986 novel of the same name. The film also serves as a remake of Tommy Lee Wallace's 1990 film adaption starring Tim Curry, Richard Thomas, John Ritter, Annette O'Toole and the original young ensemble cast which included the late Jonathan Brandis, Emily Perkins and Seth Green. The child ensemble cast comprises of Mason Cook, Luke Benward, Maxwell Perry Cotton, Dmitri Schulyer, Ryan Ketzner and Taylor Geare, Dusan Brown, Jonathen Morgan Heit, Billy Unger and Dylan Everett.
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| abstract | - It is a 2014 American Supernatural Horror film. It is the second film adaption of Stephen King's 1986 novel of the same name. The film also serves as a remake of Tommy Lee Wallace's 1990 film adaption starring Tim Curry, Richard Thomas, John Ritter, Annette O'Toole and the original young ensemble cast which included the late Jonathan Brandis, Emily Perkins and Seth Green. The remake is written by Cary Fukanaga, David Kajganich and Chase Palmer and directed by Cary Fukanaga starring an adult ensemble cast including Matthew McConaughey, Kevin Connolly, Sarah Silverman, Will Arnett, Martin Freeman, Charlie Day, Nolan North, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Joanna Garcia. The child ensemble cast comprises of Mason Cook, Luke Benward, Maxwell Perry Cotton, Dmitri Schulyer, Ryan Ketzner and Taylor Geare, Dusan Brown, Jonathen Morgan Heit, Billy Unger and Dylan Everett. Shooting for the film began on February 23rd, 2012 in Gaston County, North Carolina, Queen Anne, Seattle,Lower Manhattan, New York City,Hampstead, London, Atlanta, Georgia (Martin Luthor King Jr's childhood home serving as the Uris residence), Chicago, Illinois and on a controlled set at Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida. Shooting concluded on March 19th, 2013 and post-production on August 29th, 2013. The film was then released theatrically on February 6th, 2014 to phenomenal box office success and critical acclaim. It has been praised as a truly frightening, atmospheric and devilishly entertaining remake as well as more faithful re-imagining of King's illustrious 1986 novel. Mixed reception was dealt out to the performance of the film's iconic antagonist Pennywise The Dancing Clown which is portrayed by Steve Buscemi who agreed to portray the role and auditioned after recommendations from friends, internet raving fans and even by the original Pennywise Curry who contacted him in regards to portraying the role. Certain critics had a mixed response to the one drastic change in the story of the remake/second adaption of King's novel as it kills off all it's lead characters as adults down to two: Bill Denbrough and his trailing wife Audra who through the same act of the 1986 King novel and original 1990 adaption is able to shock her out of her state of paralysis at the hands of the primordial antagonist. The change was criticized as the film was meant to be an immensely more faithful adaption to King's novel but writer/director Fukanaga commented in an interview with Variety who praised the change along with viewing audiences, he wanted to go for the horror, not the original happy ending and in consultation with King when explaining the reason he wished to change the ending coerced him to agree, telling the faithfulness promised that was apparently more absent from the original 1990 masterpiece was the inclusion of several cut characters: including the highly significant young homosexual teen victim Adrian Mellon. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun Times praised a particular scene involving a manifestation of Mackenzie Foy's deceased character who begins to sing the Hearse Song before turning a corner and becoming the Steve Buscemi played Pennywise who further continues the song taunting a young Beverly Marsh, he hails the scene "as one of the most terrifyingly creepy moments in a horror since Isla Cameron's O Willow Waly scene in the 1961 Deborah Kerr starring picture The Innocents."
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