IT - Neibolt House Hollywood video en interview met Andy Muschietti

RDJ134 22 augustus 2017 om 01:57 uur

In 1990 verscheen er de TV mini serie It, die gebaseerd was op Stephen Kings gelijknamige boek. Deze vertelde het verhaal van een groepje kinderen die door een demoon in clowns vorm onder de naam Pennywiste terroriseerde en verantwoordelijk was voor een serie verdwijningen. De zeven jongeren vormde 'The Losers Club' omdat niemand hen geloofde en samen probeerde de clown te vermoorden. Vandaag verscheen er niet alleen de onderstaande video maar ook een interview met Andy Muschietti die verteld dat Stephen King totaal geen invloed of bemoeienis met deze film heeft gehad. IT draait overigens vanaf 7 oktober in de Nederlandse bioscopen.


Since you approached them, so was this a book you had already been a big fan of? What was it about the story that really resonated with you?

MUSCHIETTI
: I've always veen a big fan of Stephen King, especially in my teenage years. It was always one of my favorites. But in years when you grow older and start to appreciate certain things, like friendship, and love, and you know, you go through several experiences in life and you get to know several stages of friendship, like the disintegration of groups and stuff, and that's why I felt like connected to the story, again, after probably twenty years of reading it for the last time.

I know that there's the idea of splitting the story pretty evenly in half, with just doing the adults and just doing the kids, came from, originated from Cary's camp, but when you came on board, can you talk about what benefits you see in not trying to make one long, giant story and intertwining the adult story and the kid story. Like, as a storyteller, how does that appeal to you?

MUSCHIETTI
: Well it appealed to me because I always thought that the kids' storyline was more interesting than the adults, but I also appreciate the fact that there is a dialogue between the two timelines, and that's where... I came to the project when that was sort of dealt, that it would be about the kids. But I always insisted that if there is a second part, there would be a dialogue between the two timelines, and that it would be approached like the adult life of the losers, there would be flashbacks that sort of illuminate events that are not told in the first one.




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