Remakes just keep getting bigger and weirder, man…but one of the strangest bits of news I gleaned from my travels about the interwebs had to be the story that Stephen King’s classic movie IT was being remade.

This Has Me Worried

I liked IT, okay? It was one of my first Stephen King movies. I saw it when it originally aired over the course of three nights on ABC, back in the day when Stephen King miniseries were an annual event, usually somewhere near May. I knew the school year was winding down because a Stephen King movie would hit ABC and stay there for three solid nights.

I alternately gasped with terror and laughed myself stupid at the antics of Tim Curry, the best Pennywise there ever was or ever could be. While a remake has the potential to improve some of the now horribly dated jokes and effects, it also has the potential for executive meddling writ large.

This Has Me Really Worried

The worst news is just who authorized the resurgence of IT, folks…none other than the Sci Fi Channel, the network responsible for such atrocities as Shockwave and Alien Apocalypse. This really can’t end well, can it?

Maybe It Can End Well…Maybe….

There’s really only one way that the Sci Fi Channel can get its Broken Clock points on this one…stay as faithful to the source material as possible. Bring in the upgraded effects and the upgraded jokes and such, but leave the rest alone.

And of course, Tim Curry comes back as Pennywise. Not like he’s doing much these days anyway. Maybe we can get Seth Green to reprise Richie Tozier! The adult version, of course…much as I liked Harry Anderson’s version, he might be a little long in the tooth these days.

And if you want to keep busier than Tim Curry, then get back in touch with Stephen King’s earlier works like 1408 or The Shining questions on Kwanzoo.

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