12/21/2023 0 Comments Tim curry characters![]() Stan’s wife later discovers he has committed suicide in the bath. All of The Losers, save Stan, promise to return. Bill has become a bestselling horror novelist married to British actress Audra Phillips, Ben is an architect, Beverly is a fashion designer abused by her co-worker Tom Rogan, Richie is a late night television comedian, Eddie runs a limousine service but still lives with his overbearing mother and Stan is a married real estate broker. IT resurfaces and murders several children, prompting Mike to contact his estranged friends to fulfil their vow. In 1990, Mike works as a librarian in Derry. Henry, driven insane, falsely confesses to the child murders and is institutionalized. The Losers make a vow to return to Derry as adults, should IT return. Beverly fires silver bullets at IT, The Losers believing it can kill the clown. Eddie imagines his inhaler is full of battery acid, melting half of IT’s face. The Losers use IT’s ability to access their imaginations and use it against him. Stan regroups with The Losers, but is grabbed by IT. Henry is left traumatized, his hair turns white. Stan is ambushed by Henry and his friends Vic Criss and Reginald “Belch” Huggins, but the latter are both killed by IT. Bill realizes It killed Georgie, leading The Losers into Derry’s sewers to kill the clown. While looking through Mike’s history scrapbook, The Losers realize that Pennywise, which they refer to as “IT”, is a monster who awakens every 30 years to devour children. They chase them off with a rock fight, Henry vowing to kill the children, who are dubbed " The Losers Club". The group are joined by Mike Hanlon, an African American new kid in town being pursued by Henry's gang. Besides being bullied by a gang led by Henry Bowers, the children all encounter Pennywise. As they all start to know each other, Ben develops feelings for Beverly, only to discover she has feelings for Bill. They are later joined by Beverly Marsh, who lives with her abusive father, the comical Richie Tozier and the Jewish boy scout Stan Uris. Months later, Bill and asthmatic Eddie Kaspbrak befriend the overweight new kid Ben Hanscom. Pennywise entices Georgie to reach in to retrieve his boat, only for him to bite his arm off and leaves him to bleed to death. ![]() It goes down a storm drain, where Georgie encounters Pennywise The Dancing Clown. ![]() In Derry, Maine, 1960, Georgie Denbrough plays in the streets with a paper sailboat made by his stuttering big brother Bill. For his work on the miniseries, Richard Bellis received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music Composition for a miniseries or a Special Dramatic Underscore. Critics praised Tim Curry's performance as Pennywise. It aired on ABC over 2 nights on November 18th and 20th 1990, attracting 30 million viewers in it's premiere. Production on IT began in 1989, and the miniseries was filmed over a period of 3 months in New Westminster, British Columbia. Lawrence's script condensed the source work into a 2-part, 3-hour miniseries that retained the core elements of the novel, but Lawrence was forced to abandon numerous subplots by virtue of the novel's length and the network's times-lot restrictions. Originally planning a 4-part and 8-hour series, ABC enlisted writer Lawrence D. Turner, Tony Dakota, Michael Ryan, Tom Heaton and Chelan Simmons also played supporting roles. Michael Cole, Jarred Blancard, Gabe Khouth, Chris Eastman, Olivia Hussey, Frank C. The child counterparts of the Losers that appear in part one are played by Jonathan Brandis, Seth Green, Emily Perkins, Brandon Crane, Adam Faraizl, Marlon Taylor and Ben Heller. IT features an ensemble cast, starring Richard Thomas, John Ritter, Annette O'Toole, Harry Anderson, Dennis Christopher, Tim Reid and Richard Masur as the 7 members of The Losers Club, and Tim Curry as Pennywise. The miniseries takes place over 2 different time periods, the first when the Losers first confront Pennywise as children in 1960, and the second when they return as adults in 1990 to defeat him a second time after he resurfaces. The protagonists are The Losers Club, a group of outcast kids who discover Pennywise and vow to destroy him by any means necessary. IT mostly takes the human form of a sadistic, wisecracking clown called "Pennywise". The story revolves around a predatory shapeshifter which has the ability to transform itself into it's prey's worst fears, allowing it to exploit the phobias of it's victims. It is the first of 2 adaptations of the novel, the second being the 2017 film and it's 2019 sequel. Cohen from the Stephen King's novel of the same name. ![]() IT also known as Stephen King’s IT is an 1990 American supernatural horror drama miniseries directed by Tommy Lee Wallace and adapted by Lawrence D. ![]()
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