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Cary Fukunaga Explains That His Adaptation of Stephen King’s ‘IT’ Would’ve Been “More Like The Shining”
As you may recall, New Line’s big screen adaptation of Stephen King‘s killer clown epic IT was originally going to be directed by Cary Fukunaga (“True Detective,” No Time to Die), who was on board the project until a final hour replacement brought Andy Muschietti into the director’s chair instead. What exactly happened there, and what was Fukunaga’s vision like?
Fukunaga reflects in a new profile piece from The Hollywood Reporter this week.
Fukunaga and Chase Palmer had spent years working on the script and were *this* close to filming before they exited the project, with Will Poulter set to play their Pennywise.
“I was on that for four or five years with Warners and then it got moved to New Line, right before we were about to go into production,” Fukunaga recalls. “I think New Line’s view of what they wanted and my view of what I wanted were very different. I wanted to do a drama with horror elements, more like The Shining.”
The director continues, “I think they wanted to do something more [pure horror] like Annabelle [from the Conjuring films]. That was essentially the disconnect.”
Filming on Fukunaga’s version of IT was supposed to kick off in the summer of 2015, with the news of his departure from the project surprising us all just a few short weeks prior. The movie that ultimately came to the big screen was written by Gary Dauberman and of course directed by Muschietti, with Cary Fukunaga and Chase Palmer also getting writing credits.
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‘The Devil’s Bath’ – Shudder Sets Release Date for Horror Movie from ‘Goodnight Mommy’ Filmmakers
Austrian filmmakers Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala (The Lodge, Goodnight Mommy) are back with new horror movie The Devil’s Bath, and it’s coming to Shudder this summer.
The Devil’s Bath debuts on Shudder June 28, Variety reports today.
The film makes its North American premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in June.
Here’s the official plot synopsis for the German-language horror movie: “In 1750 Austria, a deeply religious woman named Agnes has just married her beloved, but her mind and heart soon grow heavy as her life becomes a long list of chores and expectations. Day after day, she is increasingly trapped in a murky and lonely path leading to evil thoughts, until the possibility of committing a shocking act of violence seems like the only way out of her inner prison.”
Anja Plaschg, David Scheid, Maria Hofstätter, Camilla Schielin, and Lorenz Tröbinger star. You can check out a first look image above. Expect the trailer in the coming weeks.
The filmmakers tell Variety, “We want to see the world how it is, and that’s of course sometimes very difficult and painful, but I think we owe it to ourselves and other human beings to be honest about everything that’s not great in the world. Many movies just depict the world as a humongous place that’s amazing to live in. We think sometimes that’s not true and feel the responsibility to look into those pieces.”
The Devil’s Bath is produced by Heimatfilm Productions and Ulrich Seidl Productions as a co-production with Heimatfilm and Coop99 Filmproduktion.
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