With rave reviews rolling in for Cary Fukunaga‘s “Beasts Of No Nation” (read ours), you have to wonder if Warner Bros./New Line is wincing slightly at having let the director go from their brewing adaptation of Stephen King‘s “It” over clashing visions for the movie. “…we just wanted to make different movies,” Fukunaga recently said, being diplomatic about the situation. But in a new interview with Variety, the filmmaker is a bit more pointed, saying things got “quietly acrimonious” with the studio, and he shares what his two-part horror would’ve entailed.
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Fukunaga goes on to say that “millions” were spent on pre-production, but he was being “micro-managed” every step of the way. That said, he does concede: “I’m not sure if the fans would have liked what I would had done. I was honoring King’s spirit of it, but I needed to update it. King saw an earlier draft and liked it.”
So we’ll have to see what direction the project goes in now, but expect something a little more ordinary. Bummer.
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