Stephen King's IT Gets Retro-Style Art With A Menacing Pennywise The Clown
Stephen King's IT gets a retro-style reimagining in new art featuring a scary and menacing rendition of Tim Curry's 1990s vision of Pennywise.
It (2017)
It Chapter One is a supernatural horror film based on the book by Stephen King where several children, including the younger brother of one of the film's protagonists, have gone missing. A group of kids called "The Loser's Club" decide to investigate the cause and hopefully save the others. However, they realize they may be in over their head when they discover their foe is an evil clown known as Pennywise, a being that preys on fear and has been the rumored cause of murders in the town of Derry for centuries.
It
- Director
- Andres Muschietti
- Release Date
- September 8, 2017
- Studio(s)
- Warner Bros. Pictures , Sony
- Distributor(s)
- Warner Bros. Pictures , Lionsgate , 20th Century , Sony
- Cast
- Bill Skarsgard , Jack Dylan Grazer , Wyatt Oleff , Nicholas Hamilton , Jaeden Lieberher , Sophia Lillis , Finn Wolfhard , Chosen Jacobs , Jeremy Ray Taylor
- Writers
- Chase Palmer , Gary Dauberman , Cary Fukunaga
- Franchise(s)
- IT
- Budget
- 35m
Summary
When children begin to disappear in the town of Derry, Maine, a group of young kids are faced with their biggest fears when they square off against an evil clown named Pennywise, whose history of murder and violence dates back for centuries. Based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King.
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