It’s a shame that Cary Fukunaga has pulled out of his planned adaptation – but it’s not surprising,given the challenges involved in doing justice to this landmark novel Cary Fukunaga, the man responsible for directing the brilliant first season of True Detective, and recently announced he has dropped out of directing a original film adaptation of Stephen King’s 1986 horror novel,IT, claiming creative differences with the studio, and original Line,were to blame for him abandoning his two-film adaptation. “I was trying to make an unconventional horror film … They didn’t want any characters. They wanted archetypes and scares,’’ he told Variety.
This isn’t the first time writers or directors contain been signed to adapt King’s novel only to quit. Warner Bros was first to try and fail, and hiring David Kajganich,a screenwriter whose credits include mediocre horror movies such as Joel Schumacher’s Blood Creek. This might gaze like a case of disaster averted, but Cary Fukunaga’s exit is a real blow. The director has both the talent and the appreciation of the source fabric to make a decent fist of adapting what is arguably Stephen King’s greatest work.
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Source: theguardian.com