Yahoo Movies Stephen King's It remake: Balloon terror in creepy new pics
Not content with stoking coulrophobia, the remake of Stephen King’s ‘It’ is now bolstering globophobia too.
Yes, that’s fear of balloons.
One of a set of new pics from the forthcoming horror movie finds murderous clown Pennywise, played by Bill Skarsgård, hiding behind one, his sinister Elizabethan ruff and blood-red smile showing behind.
Fingerless gloves get a bad rep too, in a second picture which shows Pennywise terrorising the Losers Club, the band of teenagers at the centre of the story.
USA Today got the exclusive on the pictures, director Andrés Muschietti, helmsman of ‘Mama’, telling them: “It happens in the book, this coming of age and kids facing their own mortality, which is something that in real life happens in a more progressive way and slowed down.
“There’s a passage (in ‘It’) that reads, ‘Being a kid is learning how to live and being an adult is learning how to die.’ There’s a bit of a metaphor of that and it just happens in a very brutal way, of course.”
The plot takes place on two timelines, following the malevolent creature who lurks in the sewers and targets the young people of the sleepy town of Derry in Maine every 30 years.
Wyatt Oleff, Finn Wolfhard (‘Stranger Things’), Chosen Jacobs, Jaeden Lieberher (‘Midnight Special’), Sophia Lillis and Jeremy Ray play the kids in question.
Footage of the trailer, shown at the SXSW festival, was received rapturously earlier this month, with actual screams from the audience.
Stephen King, who is often non-plussed by adaptations of his work, even likes it.
Relaying a message from King, producer Seth Graheme-Smith said: “Steve asked me to pass along that he saw a screening of ‘IT today and he wanted to let everybody know that they should stop worrying about it as the producers have done a wonderful job with the production.”
The first trailer is expected to land any day now.
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