True Detective Director Cary Fukunaga on Casting for IT Reboot
True Detective’s first season director, Cary Fukunaga, has been preparing to reboot Stephen King’s infamous IT for the past while. We know that the film will hopefully be shooting this summer and will eventually be two films.
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Even though Fukunaga hasn’t had all that much to say on this time with True Detective — he did recently lose at the DGA awards — he has been more than happy to discuss his new vision for IT.
Bloody-Disgusting has transcribed an interview with Cary Fukunaga from O Globo, a Brazilian newspaper. Fukunaga talks about the amount of work that he’s put into the project over the past several years:
"“I’ve been in this project for about five years…I had already read versions of the script but nothing felt right. Everybody tried to put too much into it…So I decided to throw it all away and start from scratch.”"
IT has without a doubt been a passion project for Cary Fukunaga. It’s so difficult to disassociate from the previous version which starred Tim Curry, but if anyone can add serious modern style it’s Fukunaga. For those still curious about who will be playing the clown, the jury is still out on that one as Fukunaga is still “trying to find to find the perfect guy to play Pennywise.”
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