So, what did Stephen King think of the new IT? Just prior to the release of IT, King offered effusive praise for the film, and he's said nothing to backtrack on that since. As relayed to Bloody Disgusting: I had hopes, but I was not prepared for how good it really was.
King's inspiration for Pennywise came from his own fear of clowns, heightened by a bizarre encounter with a Ronald McDonald lookalike. Clowns make us uneasy due to their exaggerated features, such as white faces and red smiles, which our brains interpret as threatening.
Andy Muschietti's changes to Pennywise's character in It and It: Chapter Two were approved by none other than Stephen King himself. Pennywise isn't just a terrifying supernatural clown; he is an ancient shapeless entity, possibly older than the universe itself.
While he was promoting the film adaptation of Dreamcatcher in 2003, Stephen King mentioned Christine as one of two film adaptations of his work that had "bored" him, stating: "I may just be the most adapted novelist in modern times... and I don't say that with pride so much as with a kind of stunned bemusement.
King famously hates director Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of "The Shining." However, it's still the absolute scariest film based on King's work ever made.
Why Stephen King Hates Stanley Kubrick's The Shining
Why did Stephen King create Pennywise?
King stated in a 2013 interview that he came up with the idea for Pennywise after asking himself what children feared "more than anything else in the world", and feeling that the answer was clowns.
King praised the ending for its apathy toward Hollywood's love affair with happy endings. "It was so anti-Hollywood — anti-everything, really! It was nihilistic.
In the book, she inherits her evil from her previous owner, who then essentially projects that possession on Arnie. In the film, this subplot is left out, and instead she just becomes an obsessive object that has been possessed since she came off the assembly line.
In "Christine," the 1959 Plymouth Fury's barn scene shows the car miraculously repairing itself. The filmmakers achieved this effect by fitting the car with hydraulic systems, allowing its body panels to be pulled back into shape while playing the film in reverse.
King hopes It: Chapter Two will bring people closer together, in a literal sense. “Andy is brilliant when it comes to creating a horror scenario. He knows what scares people, and he also has a sense of humor,” King said. “It —both chapters of It—are fun.
Stephen King cameos as a pawn shop owner, the film's director Andy Muschietti cameos as a customer at the pharmacy, and filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich cameos as himself, the director of the film based on Bill's novel.
Parents need to know that It Chapter Two is the follow-up to the hugely successful It (2017); both films are based on Stephen King's novel. This one -- which is more centered on adults than kids -- is very long and less scary than the first, but it's definitely entertaining, with great characters and true teamwork.
Stephen King's IT introduced readers to a one-of-a-kind creature that can take any form, the most common one being Pennywise the Dancing Clown, and as menacing as it is, this creature has one big enemy it's truly scared of: Maturin, the turtle.
Pennywise/IT preys on the children of Derry because their fears are easier to manifest into a physical form and harvest. King decided for IT to predominantly take the shape of Pennywise the Dancing Clown because he believes "clowns scare children more than anything else in the world."
Another explanation is connected to the Turtle and the cosmic side of IT and Stephen King's Macroverse, suggesting the Losers as the “chosen ones” that were guided and thus protected to an extent by Maturin, the only creature IT is afraid of.
Christine is the main antagonist of the 1983 American horror film Christine. Possessed by the ghost of retired war veteran Roland LeBay, Christine is a demonic 1958 Plymouth Fury with a jealous obsession with teenager Arnold Cunningham.
Christine does not return the love she is given, in spite of Arnie's stated belief to the contrary. Rather, she is a vampiric consumer of Arnie's expended energy. Willingly seduced by a demon, Arnie falls prey to his own displaced eroticism.
It's Roland LeBay who made Christine evil, his love for Christine overriding even his love for his wife and daughter, both of whom died in the car. Thus, Roland's evil spirit became one with Christine. In both the movie and the book, Christine could drive herself and repair any damage so long as she was kept moving.
It was Darabont's attempt to create something a bit more definitive, an ending that would not only stick with viewers, but leave them feeling the primal horror of The Mist long after the credits rolled. And it worked, so much so that even King agreed it's a better ending than his story.
Director Frank Darabont explained to Slash Film that this was the way to end The Mist because people "make the wrong decision" and "life is like that." In Slash Film's 15-year oral history of The Mist, Darabont said that Stephen King was fine with The Mist ending.
The mist becomes a symbol of the creeping horror of the unknown, preventing people from seeing and interacting with the world around them. At the same time, David cannot shift his suspicion that the mist is a product of human interference.
It describes that it prefers to kill and devour children, not by nature, rather because children's fears are easier to interpret in a physical form and thus children are easier to fill with terror, which It says is akin to marinating the meat.
Answer and Explanation: No, Stephen King's It is not based on a true story. King had the idea for It when looking at an old wooden walking bridge in 1978 near his home in Boulder, Colorado.
Pennywise is just a mask, an act that It uses when convenient. It is the real monster behind the monster. If you want to get technical, It is an alien, but It's origin goes well beyond that. It is actually an ancient cosmic deity.
