We’ve seen Pennywise terrorize the kids of Derry in It and It: Chapter Two, but that was only after he had taken several of their lives over a few decades.
This Fall, we are going to see how he terrified the town in 1962, and it is going to be even scarier than we thought.
The series is being brought to life by Andy and Barbara Muschietti, who reimagined It for the big screen. The siblings pondered Pennywise’s past, and now they are adapting that nightmare for the small screen.
It: Welcome to Derry will air on HBO and stream on Max, I mean HBO Max. I don’t know what is scarier: that Warner Bros can’t figure out what to call their streaming service or the teaser trailer. The former, definitely the former.
When I was growing up, there was a wind-up monkey that played the drums with buggy eyes and a haunting smile, and he was scary AF. So, my dad would wind him up all the time when I was sleeping and leave it on my bed to watch me get scared. Then he would laugh and laugh.
I have a feeling that Osgood Perkins’ father, Anthony Perkins, did something like to his son with Psycho.
Because why else would he turn Stephen King’s short story, The Monkey, into such a terrifying tale? But he did, and it will be hitting theaters on February 21st.
Are you going to see it? I won’t! I finally got that evil monkey out of my nightmares. I don’t want him back.
The King of Horror, Stephen King, the King of this millennium’s Horror movies, and the son of Psycho’s Anthony Perkins have teamed up for a film that is going to give us nightmares for years to come.
Osgood Perkins wrote and directed The Monkey. After stumbling upon their father’s vintage toy monkey in the attic, twin brothers Hal and Bill witness a string of horrifying deaths unfolding around them. In an attempt to leave the haunting behind, the brothers opt to discard the monkey and pursue separate paths over time. However, when the inexplicable deaths resurface, the brothers are compelled to reconcile and embark on a mission to permanently eliminate the cursed toy.
The Creature Feature will be monkeying around theaters on February 21st.
We know what Pennywise was doing in the late ’80s, but what was he doing before then? HBO Max is going to answer that question with the prequel series to the recent It movies.
Welcome to Derry is being made for TV by siblings Andy Muschietti and Barbara Muschietti, who gave It life on the big screen. “As teenagers, we took turns reading chapters of Stephen King’s ‘IT’ until the thick paperback fell to pieces. ‘IT’ is an epic story that contains multitudes, far beyond what we could explore in our ‘IT’ movies. We can’t wait to share the depths of Steve’s novel, in all its heart, humor, humanity and horror.”
As of now, we don’t know much about the production. I hope they get Bill Skarsgård to reprise his role. He was brilliant as the killer clown. Not as good as Tim Curry. But no one is as great as Tim Curry.
Stephen King has written so many books. However, there is one novel he wants to pen but we might never be able to read it.
The legendary author revealed the premise. “The best novel idea I never wrote (and probably never will) is I JASON, the first-person narrative of Jason Voorhees, and his hellish fate: killed over and over again at Camp Crystal Lake. What a hellish, existential fate!” Then he explained why he can’t do it, “Just thinking about the legal thicket one would have to go through to get permissions makes my head ache. And my heart, that too. But gosh, shouldn’t someone tell Jason’s side of the story?”
I think whoever owns the rights to the Friday the 13th franchise should let him do it. It can’t be any worse than the painfully horrendous reboot and Jason X.
Imagine King’s take on Jason’s take of it all. Now my head aches thinking about it.
I would love to get Jason: Under the Dome or Jason: Thinner or Jason vs Cujo. What mashup would want to see? Even though that is not what King was going for with his idea.
Going off on his idea, then, which other horror movie killers would you like to see his perspective on about them. I am Freddy Krueger girl, so it would be a dream come true to see what the writer’s nightmare on Elm Street would be. Maybe we can find out what Michael Myers does on the days that are not Halloween. My favorite would be is what was Christine thinking on her joy rides.
