So they cancelled the IT movie but here's why

[Jello Biafra]

They're putting the project on hold because another horror movie featuring a clown didn't fare well at the box office therefore, audiences must not like horror movies about clowns.

New Line is run by a bunch of retards.

 

[MartyMcFly]

New Line is run by a bunch of retards.

That's my conclusion breh

 

[Jello Biafra]

speaking of clowns..

this was a let down..yes Eli Let down Roth

I hated that stupid fukking movie.
Eli Roth is on thin ice with me. If Green Inferno and Knock Knock are terrible then I am not even going to bother with movies with his name on them anymore.

 

[Jello Biafra]

you guys are lookin at it through the lens of a hardcore movie fan. these execs don't act on emotion, they act on data.

i don't know whether they're right or wrong but i could at least see where they're comin from. no matter how you spin it the fact is poltergeist (a remake of an 80's classic with heavy clown imagery) just underperformed. based on that i could see why they might be hesitant to pump money into something that will look similar. and IT doesn't have the same name recognition that poltergeist does.

There is absolutely nothing similar about Poltergeist and It though.
There is no data that correlates anything between the two properties aside from them being horror and remakes.
The new Poltergeist wasn't even all that clown heavy; the original made more and better use of the clown doll than the remake. Using the clown as a barometer is silly. Might as well stop making ghost movies or movies featuring white families using their logic.
WB needs to just take the property away from New Line, movie it to HBO as a mini-series and get Fukunaga back on board.

 

[hex]

you guys are lookin at it through the lens of a hardcore movie fan. these execs don't act on emotion, they act on data.

i don't know whether they're right or wrong but i could at least see where they're comin from. no matter how you spin it the fact is poltergeist (a remake of an 80's classic with heavy clown imagery) just underperformed. based on that i could see why they might be hesitant to pump money into something that will look similar. and IT doesn't have the same name recognition that poltergeist does.

After the Sony email leak I find to hard to believe execs are anything other than high functioning autistics.

Fred.

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

Yup. The conjuring has set the bar

that movie is status and I don't dig possession demon type shyt usually. Rewatched it several times and it still holds up. Hide and clap brehs :damn

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

After the Sony email leak I find to hard to believe execs are anything other than high functioning sociopaths.

Fred.

corrected*

 

[hex]

corrected*

After the Sony email leak I find to hard to believe execs are anything other than high functioning autistic sociopaths.

*corrected

Fred.

 

[MartyMcFly]

that movie is status and I don't dig possession demon type shyt usually. Rewatched it several times and it still holds up. Hide and clap brehs :damn

That and the first insidious are tough breh. Like if you're making a haunted house flick now what do you do?? Then you find out James Wan can make big action flicks too? Homie is playing chess while everyone else is playing checkers.

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

*corrected

Fred.

yeah I think that's definitely more accurate

 

[Kill Dat Noize]

There is absolutely nothing similar about Poltergeist and It though.
There is no data that correlates anything between the two properties aside from them being horror and remakes.
The new Poltergeist wasn't even all that clown heavy; the original made more and better use of the clown doll than the remake. Using the clown as a barometer is silly. Might as well stop making ghost movies or movies featuring white families using their logic.
WB needs to just take the property away from New Line, movie it to HBO as a mini-series and get Fukunaga back on board.

I understand, but the clown was definitely the thing they harped on most in the marketing. and for whatever reason, the people didn't turn out.

i'm just playing devil's advocate here. just sayin i could see why someone might not wanna invest the money into another 80's/90's horror remake with the creepy clown in it so soon after poltergeist underperformed.

 

[Zombi_Jeezus]

Damn IT split into two movies would be dope. I've always liked movies thAt have a group of kids facing some shyt. Movies like stand by me, monster squAd, the gate, sandlot, super 8 etc...
They always remind me of the stupid shyt I used to get into as a kid

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

Okay so I wanted to see what they'd do with this but I'm not too devastated about the news. With that said, Cary Fukunaga is a great director and the first season of True Detective had me shook in a lot of parts. No, really tho. The atmosphere was chilling. I still want to see Cary involved in horror.

 

[hex]

This isn't surprising to me really, I remember when Del Toro was talking about "Prometheus" would most likely make it harder for him to get "At The Mountains Of Madness" funded.

Fred.

 

[Dominic Brehetto]

That and the first insidious are tough breh. Like if you're making a haunted house flick now what do you do?? Then you find out James Wan can make big action flicks too? Homie is playing chess while everyone else is playing checkers.

James wan low key one of my favorite directors.

Death sentence was under rated as hell.

fukk it, get wan to remake IT. He'd probably make a better IT movie with a $5million budget than other directors would with $50 million.