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[cuddlycthulhu]

StephenKing's
It getting a two-part movie deal.While I love Tim Curry as Pennywise, the mini-series has not aged well and

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[cuddlycthulhu]

Yeah, and I think the balance rests on the side of "unbearably craptacular". I mean, he's had some good ones, but he's had some huge stinkers too.

[reddheart]

I don't know what I think yet. It could go really well, or it could go down the hills

[cuddlycthulhu]

One of the most important factors for me will be the actor chosen to be Pennywise. Tim Curry did such an insanely good job in the role that anyone who takes it on is filling a pair of clown shoes that are not just huge in the literal sense. If you fail on Pennywise, you fail on the movie.

I liken this to the role of the Joker. Jack Nicholson did, IMO, a very, very good version of a Joker; the ever-smiling, practical-joking, Clown Prince of Crime. If another actor had come along and tried to do that Joker they would've failed, the same way, I think, that the most recent Superman movie failed; that was not my Superman.

But then came along Heath Ledger's Joker, for which, if I remember correctly, he won a posthumous Oscar for, because it was oh-holy-shit-that-good.

Will Tim Curry be a Pennywise for some people? Yes. But can someone else also be a Pennywise? I think so, I think they just need to put their own unique spin on the role that makes it NOTHING like Tim Curry's version but still IS Pennywise.

If they are successful, I

[reddheart]

I certainly think someone can do as well as Tim did. It won't be easy, but not impossible. :)

One big part of what I've noticed of anyone who has taken up a role that's been done before is a) they're overall good actors to begin with and b) they genuinely are interested in the character in more than a superficial way. I've always found it awesome when an actor goes through and really -learns- about the character. That learning can take on a variety of forms, but some of my favorites have gone out of their way to get to know that character as if they were a real being, internalized what they learned, and then surprise me with either a really accurate portrayal, or one that may not be as accurate, but that is so amazingly good and believable that I can overlook the places where it deviates, and perhaps even appreciate why those deviations are there.

Incidentally, does anyone stand out to you as a potential candidate? Matter of fact, I need to sit and read that again. Maybe I'll fire it up on the Kindle app...