No Paranormal Activity, Conjuring or Saw: The most successful horror film of all time at the box office in 2017 and it is an adaptation of Stephen King’s famous: This or That, in French. A rather thick story, the two books were split into two films, directed by Andy Muschietti, and it was the first installment that worked best.
With a gross of $704,242,551, It: Chapter 1 is the highest-grossing horror film worldwide. The image of the demonic clown is so familiar that it is familiar even to viewers who have not seen the adaptation.
This scene from the novel, which cinema never dared to bring to the screen
What does “it” say?
In the city of Derry, seven children rejected by their classmates form the “Failure Club”. All of them are confronted by a terrifying clown called “It”, who lives in the city’s sewers and feeds on the greatest fears of his favorite victims: children. Every 27 years, “It”, its real name is the Penny-Grip, reappears to terrorize Derry. Except this time, the losers will unite before him!
It beat its sequel and The Conclusion: Chapter 2 at the box office, which brought in “only” 473,093,228 releases. The studio obviously expected more than the first, but with its $79 million budget, this second opus was profitable enough for Warners to launch a prequel series, which Andy Muschietti is currently directing and producing.
Pennywise, like Pennywise
Before these two films, the novel was the subject of a previous adaptation, “That’s Back,” a two-episode miniseries that aired in France on M6 in 1993, three years after its original American broadcast on ABC on Nov. 20. , 1990. And thanks to his two TV movies, Tim Curry has traumatized an entire generation!
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