Yet fellowship was the best of the movies.Originally Posted by Johnny Alien
Yet fellowship was the best of the movies.
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I'm getting really excited about it. I have to keep trying to hype it down a bit to myself because I know it can't live up to my full expectations. I think I'm going to reread the book soon. It's been a long time.
Thanks for posting the pics Matt!
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
They can cut out a lot of IT or they can cut out a lot of "IT"? It's all so confusing!
Return of the King was solid too but I think I agree with you.
http://www.cinemablend.com/news/1543...wanted-to-make
The hit Netflix series Stranger Things has seen numerous comparisons to the work of Stephen King. It's clear that The Duffer Brothers hold the author in high regard. However, it turns out they love one of his books so much they tried to direct the movie version. While there are several Stephen King properties currently being adapted for film, The Duffer Brothers actually tried to get handed the reins of one of them. They asked to direct It.
Stranger Things is a love letter to the 1980s, Stephen King, and John Carpenter. There's really no other way to look at it. It's clear that things like the work of Stephen King are truly loved by Matt and Ross Duffer, the creative minds behind the Netflix series. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the pair were asked if they would have liked to have actually directed one of the upcoming King adaptations, such as It. It turns out, that they really do want to. In fact, they wanted to so much, they already tried.
Ross: Absolutely, because we asked to do it.
Matt: We asked, and that's why we ended up doing this, because we'd asked Warner Bros. I was like, "Please," and they were like, "No." This was before Cary Fukunaga. This was a long time ago.
While Matt and Ross Duffer have become overnight sensations thanks to Stranger Things, they were hardly household names a couple of years ago. However, when their horror film Hidden was picked up by Warner Bros. the two apparently used that opportunity to lobby for themselves to take on It. One assumes the fact that they were unknowns were the major thing that was held against them. It was clearly a long time ago, as they say, this was before True Detectives director Cary Fukunaga was attached, and it's been a year since Fukunaga left the project.
Ultimately, the pair seems happy that they decided to go after their own project, rather than directing It. Both brothers say It was the Stephen King novel that had the most impact on them, and that they're not sure they'd really want to take on the responsibility of doing it, as they would hate to screw it up. If they screw up Stranger Things, it's their own work, so they're not disappointing anybody else.
Of course, now we can't help but wonder what might have been. The It movie has had trouble keeping a director. It's never seemed to have been sure whether it was going to be one movie, or two. Maybe people who are a bit more invested in the material is what this project needs.
I was at 29 Neibolt St. today. Filming doesn't start until Tuesday. I'll post more pictures then as I'll be hanging out there most of the day.
And the one I got in a little (just a smidgen) of trouble for going over the boundaries to take head on.
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It's looking good.
"One day you're going to figure out that everything they taught you was a lie."
Very cool pics! If I could I'd take a flight to Canada just to see the filming
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This got me a little excited...
http://collider.com/it-movie-stranger-things-dan-lin/
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I'm not sure the "wink-wink nostalgic nod" quality is such a good ingredient for It, despite how well it worked for ST (which was great). It's "kid" segment is set in the 80s, but that isn't the same as the movie feeling like it was made in the 80s or being an homage to works of that time period. Part of ST's charm was that it evoked things other than itself, but I consider It to be its own thing, which shouldn't need to reference something else.
The other negative is that to compare your current project to the new media darling feels a bit desperate, a bit "look at me!"
Of course, the whole thing could work brilliantly and maybe the ST comparison is apt; I'll be happy to eat these words - but this bit of info just didn't hit me in a good way.
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I think 69 Neibolt Street looks very 'Tim Burton' in style....
Maybe I should have clarified what I was pumped about. haha It really wasn't that part but the talk of the Pennywise audition. The way they talked about how they knew they had thier man right away... spoke volumes to me. They bring up Ledger... which was the best clown I have ever seen on TV... it got me a little amped up!I'm not sure the "wink-wink nostalgic nod" quality is such a good ingredient for It, despite how well it worked for ST (which was great). It's "kid" segment is set in the 80s, but that isn't the same as the movie feeling like it was made in the 80s or being an homage to works of that time period. Part of ST's charm was that it evoked things other than itself, but I consider It to be its own thing, which shouldn't need to reference something else.
The other negative is that to compare your current project to the new media darling feels a bit desperate, a bit "look at me!"
Of course, the whole thing could work brilliantly and maybe the ST comparison is apt; I'll be happy to eat these words - but this bit of info just didn't hit me in a good way.
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That's cool, and I don't mean to suggest that you (or anyone) shouldn't get excited about any of this. I am optimistic about it.
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The comparison was inevitible anyway, with Stranger Things so obviously borrowing a lot from It. About two years ago the movie was already described as The Goonies meets hardcore horror.
Apparently the STRANGER THINGS directors wanted to direct IT a few years back, and they got declined.
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Not an expert on Cadillac's, but the one in the picture is either a 1967. or 1968 Eldorado.
Don't care what year, I want it...
25K and a green one could be yours. Looks to be in much better shape than the one pictured above.
https://classiccars.com/listings/vie...virginia-20166
I'm undecided if I'm going to try to get any pictures for filming. I was talking someone who lives two doors down from the house (their windows are going to be all boarded up during filming and junked cars on the lawn etc) and they said there are going to be assloads of police and security around it, no doubt blockng off the only couple ways to see the shooting. Evidently they don't want images of the leper and the werewolf to get out.
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I swung by the set again today and I have a more updated picture on my brothers phone (I left mine in the car since I'd seen it twice already), with the front lawn all decked out in bright, yellow daisies which just makes the house seem far darker than it already does.
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Ah it's set In 80s..that explains all those 70's era cars that confused me. Was wondering if they were updating the timeline.
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It's set in 1989 to be exact.
That's why a dilapidated 1967 car works well.
As well as the Batman & Lethal Weapon 2 posters.
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