From left: Jack Dylan Grazer as Eddie Kaspbrak, Jaden Lieberher as Bill Denbrough, Chosen Jacobs as Mike Hanlon, Wyatt Oleff as Stanley Uris, Sophia Lilles as Beverly Marsh, Jeremy Ray Taylor as Ben Hanscom and Finn Wolfhard as Richie Tozier star in 2017's “It.” (BROOKE PALMER PHOTO/WARNER BROS. PICTURES)
“It,” Stephen King’s novel about a shape-shifting entity that feeds on children and takes the preferred form of Pennywise the Dancing Clown, successfully makes the leap to the big screen, following a TV miniseries adaptation in 1990.
Bill Skarsgard stars as Pennywise in Stephen King’s “It.” (BROOKE PALMER PHOTO/WARNER BROS. PICTURES)
Let’s address the elephant in the room. Is Bill Skarsgard a worthy successor to Tim Curry, who famously played Pennywise in the 1990 miniseries? Absolutely. If he is better is open to debate, and is a matter of personal taste.
From left: Jack Dylan Grazer as Eddie Kaspbrak, Jaden Lieberher as Bill Denbrough, Chosen Jacobs as Mike Hanlon, Wyatt Oleff as Stanley Uris, Sophia Lilles as Beverly Marsh, Jeremy Ray Taylor as Ben Hanscom and Finn Wolfhard as Richie Tozier star in 2017's “It.” (BROOKE PALMER PHOTO/WARNER BROS. PICTURES)
Alec Kerr, the film critic for The Conway Daily Sun, gets reactions of the new adaptation of Stephen King's "It" at the Mountain Valley Mall Cinema 7 in North Conway.
Alec Kerr, film critic for The Conway Daily Sun, explores his favorite adaptations of Stephen King stories and novels and attempts to pinpoint what made them work so well.
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