Posting on Upcoming Stephen King movie projects

[srboone]

Here's an interesting note on the development of The Stand:

http://collider.com/the-stand-movie-...eries/?_r=true

[bookworm 1]

I always had mixed feelings for It. The tv movie. I loved Pennywise and some of the character development. However the giant spider at the end looked like something out of a 50's B movie. While I love those movies I just felt it was to over the top for the rest of the movie. I do love the book and do need to do a re-read of it some day soon.

The article I read had directly attributed the sales of Poltergeist to It. 30 mil is a lot, but many films these days cost MUCH more than that, that's almost a pittance compare to most major studio films these days. And we're not simply talking about another horror movie, but one of the most highly regarded horror novels ever, in addition to being a remake of one of the more highly regarded made for TV movies. People of my generation remember it well and are still horrified of clowns, simply because of the It TV movie.

[subie09lega]

Yea I heard the CG was distracting and the two lead actors kinda "checked out" so to speak part way through. Like they looked at each other and said "What the hell are we doing?"

Spoiler!

They certainly didn't seem to care much about what was happening to Maddy (formerly Carol Anne). The tree was kind of stupid and the clown, which could have been even more a threat than the first time around was a blip on the screen - what you see in the trailer is what you get in the movie. There was a few good scenes like when the boy walks in on his parents getting frisky, that was funny and, well, maybe that was all.

[Dan Hocker]

I went to Poltergeist opening night and it's really a shame they didn't do a better job with it. I left feeling a void and a desire to watch the original.

Yea I heard the CG was distracting and the two lead actors kinda "checked out" so to speak part way through. Like they looked at each other and said "What the hell are we doing?"

[subie09lega]

I went to Poltergeist opening night and it's really a shame they didn't do a better job with it. I left feeling a void and a desire to watch the original.

[Dan Hocker]

The article I read had directly attributed the sales of Poltergeist to It. 30 mil is a lot, but many films these days cost MUCH more than that, that's almost a pittance compare to most major studio films these days. And we're not simply talking about another horror movie, but one of the most highly regarded horror novels ever, in addition to being a remake of one of the more highly regarded made for TV movies. People of my generation remember it well and are still horrified of clowns, simply because of the It TV movie.

Based off of budgets on Box Office Mojo for horror remakes, I'd say 30 mil is probably in the mid range of horror movie remakes. That said I doubt the clown had much to do with it, probably more likely just the fact that a big horror movie that everyone thought was going to do well, bombed. Granted everything I've heard about Poltergeist was that it was a pretty bad movie.

[Theli]

Someone on Liljas Library made a good point. The budget was 30,000,000 . How can you not make a decent horror movie for that kind of money? The fact the director wanted to increase the budget to me makes no sense .
I would like to see this get made. Maybe one day. Oh and reports say that the director has been wanting a bigger budget for awhile now. I think that the failure of Poltergiest is just a coincident.

The article I read had directly attributed the sales of Poltergeist to It. 30 mil is a lot, but many films these days cost MUCH more than that, that's almost a pittance compare to most major studio films these days. And we're not simply talking about another horror movie, but one of the most highly regarded horror novels ever, in addition to being a remake of one of the more highly regarded made for TV movies. People of my generation remember it well and are still horrified of clowns, simply because of the It TV movie.

[bookworm 1]

The way I read it that was just the first. ... Here is a question. If the first movie is made and tanks does the second part still get made or does the movie studio cut it's loss.?

I'm still waiting for the second arc of The Talisman graphic novel. That was years ago and will probably never get done.

[Sock Monkey]

Yeah, 30 million is a nice chunk of change. It was projected as two movies so I'm curious if that was 30 each or 30 for both?

[bookworm 1]

Someone on Liljas Library made a good point. The budget was 30,000,000 . How can you not make a decent horror movie for that kind of money? The fact the director wanted to increase the budget to me makes no sense .
I would like to see this get made. Maybe one day. Oh and reports say that the director has been wanting a bigger budget for awhile now. I think that the failure of Poltergiest is just a coincident.

[Theli]

I love the foresight of the studio/marketing execs. Part of the reason funding is being cut is because Poltergeist was a flop and it featured a clown in it's markeying campaign, thus It too will fail... Seems like sound logic

[Sock Monkey]

Looks like It may be stalled. Reports are saying that director Cary Fukunaga has left the project over clashes with the studio over budget issues. There has also been some talk about the movie being cut down from two parts to one.

[Theli]

I have no problems with the decision. I reserve all judgement until the film is released.

[srboone]

We'll have to wait and see.

[Martin]

Well that could either work brilliantly or fail. I am intrigued by the choice.