I am going to say here what I wrote to my movie crazy buddy David, the trailer looks good (even though I think the old one was absolutely great already) but I just hope they left enough time to tell the story correctly, a lot of Stephen King books have been filmed to a level of just barely OK (a few ones were good, the Stand, the Shining, Cujo, Misery, Carrie, It, Dolores Claiborne the dead zone, shawshank, the green mile for example) but a lot were just mediocre IMO, sure I watched them because I am a huge King fan but really, children of the corn was just OK, the Tommyknockers, silver bullet, sleepwalkers, maximum overdrive, secret window, firestarter, cell, apt pupil, cat's eye, graveyard shift, needful things, stand by me, etc. etc. etc.
And the one that vexes me most
WHERE ARE THE MOVIE ADAPTATIONS OF ROSE MADDER AND INSOMNIA!!!! and why was Needful things such a mediocre movie, it is one of my favorite books of King, the suspense, the terror, the evil does not come out properly in the movie. Don't get me wrong, it was not a train wreck like Maximum overdrive but also not as good as the Shining. Ed Harris was pretty good in the movie (but then again, I kinda like him as an actor, from things like the Abyss, Apollo 13, the Truman show to name just a few) but Max van Sydow, which is a pretty good actor too, was not convincing as Leland Gaunt. Christopher Walken might have been good, Ricardo Montelban maybe, John Colicos (Count Baltar on battlestar galactica) perhaps, Judd Hirsch, who knows but Max von Sydow?
If it were remade today, Bryan Cranston might have been a good Leland Gaunt, given an older make up to begin with but when he is going into his gun selling he could turn off the grey and back into a normal hair color but I am not holding my breath on that remake LOL.
But seriously, IT is a great concept and can be an awesome movie, just give it enough time, don't make it a 95 minute movie because I am not sure that will do justice to this awesome book.
