That isn't confirmed, and anonymous sources usually aren't too reliable. Combined with his indie credentials (Killing Them Softly, The Place Beyond the Pines, and Mississippi Grind), Mendelsohn proved himself as exemplary a character actor as any in recent memory.Īn anonymous source claims Mendelsohn turned down Pennywise because studio executives were concerned about It's budget and lowered the actor's salary.
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Reportedly, Fukunaga wanted to cast Ben Mendelsohn, a reputable actor in every circumstance but one who shined as a complicated baddie in Animal Kingdom, the Netflix series Bloodline (for which he won an Emmy Award), and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. The 2017 film's R-rating would allow the freedom to be as graphic as King's words, so it was a tall order to live up to two different but complimentary images of King's most culturally recognizable creation.
We young ones thought Tim Curry was bad? Oh, the horrors awaiting us once we were older and met the real, uncensored thing. It was published in 1986 and petrified existing King fans and casual readers alike. It's a balancing act familiar to remakes and reimaginings: infuse Stephen King's abhorrent monster with unique ideas but not lose the forest for the trees. Any actor donning white makeup and floppy shoes for a modern Pennywise needed to be recognizable enough to ring true but as far from a carbon copy as possible. This writer can testify to having nightmares after just a glimpse of the cackling, balloon-dispensing clown. Although Tommy Lee Wallace 's 1990 miniseries is stylistically dated by today's standards and hampered by a network TV budget, the venerable Tim Curry's exquisitely vile performance as Pennywise cast a long and nigh-indomitable shadow.
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