IT Adaptations

               

IT

1990-2017

IT, a novel originally written by Steven King was made into a 2 part episode back in 1990. It was later turned into a movie. The movie was directed by Tommy Lee Wallace and adapted by Lawrence D. Cohen from Stephen King's 1986 novel of the same name. The movie is mostly about a killer clown who hunts and preys on pre-teen kids and their absolute worst fears. The clown is called Pennywise and is a shape-shifting clown who turns into the victims biggest fear in order to consume them. Stephen King has written many adaptations to other shows and movies besides IT. In the first film(1990) you can see the older movie style. The clown isn’t the scariest. But in addition to being one mean, multifaceted predator, Pennywise has exerted a malign influence on the entire town. He himself – or It Itself – only emerges from hibernation once every 27 years or so for a feeding frenzy that lasts roughly a year to 18 months. But Its presence in the sewers beneath Derry radiates an evil that makes the small town the murder capital of New England … and generates a sort of willful amnesia among the population. Such forgetfulness keeps folks from reflecting on their sleepy burg’s history of atrocities, disasters, and mass murders. It also prevents people from connecting the dots when the creature resurfaces and kids start going missing en masse. 

Now we have the newer and improved version of, IT Chapter: One. This movie is directed by Andy Muschietti, and portrays as a better version of the original IT movie. The film is set in the summer of 1989 and tells the story of seven children in Derry, Maine, who are terrorized by the eponymous being, only to face their own personal demons in the process. The novel was previously adapted into 1990 miniseries.

References:

• https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-news/it-everything-you-need-to-know-about-stephen-kings-killer-clown-story-113662/

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_(2017_film)

• https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099864/