>tfw people are going to go watch this thinking it's a horror movie about clowns >tfw the trailers and promotions all enforce this
>tfw the look on their faces when they realize it's actually about a group of kids enlisted by a gigantic benevolent turtle god to defeat a transdimensional evil eldritch demon taking the form of a spider on earth while hiding from the turtle god but also trying to build up the power to defeat the turtle god and is sealed away by an initial ritual aided by the turtle god but later comes back when the turtle god dies due to other reasons so the main kids now grownup must unite and in the name of the turtle god fight the evil transdimensional spider demon one last time and slay him to finally put an end to the evil he seeks to enact on the macroverse and mainstream universe
also what the fuck was stephen king smoking when he wrote this
Is this a reference to the turtle? Doesn't the turtle guide the boat to the storm drain in the book?
Benjamin Johnson
It's a frog named kek not a turtle
Anthony Phillips
No, the turtle and It are rivals, one good the other evil, and the turtle tries to fuck with It and It keeps running away, so the turtle decides to step back and help the kids take him on. The book is less about evil clowns and more about two vague god-like entities, a turtle and a spider, fighting each other in a million-years-old war.
Asher Gray
I remember the turtle saying he got georgie killed since he needed bill to be motivated in killing IT.
Isaiah Taylor
>spider >spider
It's a drider.
Zachary Sanders
It is a really, really weird novel with some of the most inconsistent writing I've ever seen in a Lovecraftesque horror book.
The way I remember it is the turtle god is a good guy who created the entire universe, but It was an evil spirit living there beforehand and was initially subservient to the turtle, then became rebellious, then the turtle chased him away because he was a few fuckatons more powerful than It, so It has been fleeing from him and fucking him with then fleeing again repeatedly.
When It came to Earth he started feeding off of fear and mortals to gain strength, hoping one day to be able to usurp the turtle. Knowing It would just run away again if he confronted him, assuming he could even find the slippery fuck, the turtle baited It with George in order to get the kids motivated to fight It, then gave them the strength indirectly to do so, thinking It would be too proud to run away from mortal kids, and he was absolutely right.
The turtle explained it more or less as a sacrifice of one for the good of all, because through his death It didn't run away and instead got put away, then later killed.
Dylan Ortiz
Pills and cocaine. One of them. That man never stops writing in whatever state hes in
John Ward
WHEN DO ALL THE KIDS FUCK?
Henry Bailey
I wonder if they're going to have some Dark Tower shit in it to build up the Stephen King cinematic universe.
The Losers Club is essentially a ka-tet.
Matthew Ortiz
...
Jose Garcia
It has a lot of evil clown shenannagins though.
Isaiah Butler
I just want to see Floating Dragon.
A book that came out at the same time with almost the exact same plot, except the bad guy is a fucking dragon.
Hunter Carter
I'm only watching for pic related. I had no idea there were clowns in this movie.
Henry Gray
I haven't read the book in about 10 years, but I don't remember the turtle being too involved in the conflict. It was just sorta there.
Lincoln Bennett
I'm just gonna watch this for the Bev gangrape
Joseph Baker
Bill and fatboy build a sweat lodge that makes them hallucinate themselves into the macro verse where they meet Maturin. There they learn of the origins of IT and the ritual of Chüd.
Owen Torres
The turtle will be featured and have a larger role in the film
The turtle will be Gamera
Levi Hughes
Shut the fuck up tabletop faggot, it's literally known as "the Spider", kill yourself
Elijah Nelson
It's not a spider and it's not a gay fantasy non-spider. The spider form is automatically given by the kids minds because they can't comprehend its real form and so their minds chose a spider as a placeholder form.
Wyatt Bailey
Is Stephen King /ourguy/?
Landon Brown
Wrong, it's a drider but was shown as a spider because the children didn't know what a drider was
William Torres
Reading The Stand at the moment and I have noticed that King frequently uses the word Nigger. I'm currently on chapter 35 and every time King mentions black people he uses the word, with the exception of the scene where black soldiers clad in loincloths execute white soldiers live on tv (chapter 27, I think).
I understand that King has racist characters in his books, and that he uses nigger when he is writing from their perspectives, but I find him using it in his "narrator's voice" in The Stand. He throws the word in every time he refers to black background characters and it's becoming jarring.
Landon Nelson
It's been years since i read IT.
Wasn't the turtle dead during the last part? Or was it just IT's ego who made it think that?
Brandon Sullivan
He was smoking literally everything. Dude was on drugs for the better part oft his carrer.
Benjamin Carter
I wonder if this version will include the graphic sex scene of a bunch of eleven year olds having an orgy
Ryder Ortiz
The only part i remember where the narrator calls anyone a nigger is in the prison part.
Grayson Fisher
I read Bev as Xev and got excited
Gavin Ross
Oh yead, forgot the part where Trashcan mans dad buys a gun from "A nigger in a bar".
John Gray
It's pretty accurate tho, in a post-apocalyptic world there would be no political correctness and any surviving black people would get called niggers constantly
Also Stephen King's white guilt is probably due to him being a closeted racist, lots of SJW are secretly extremely prejudiced
Jason Hill
Am i the only one who hates the fact that King stole A'tuin from discworld and nobody realises this/gives a shit? King is a fucking hack. I never read a King book that didn't have a shit ending, and him trying to connect all his stories to try make him look a decent writer is cringeworthy.
Oliver Scott
so...yes?
Henry Nguyen
uh, wut?
Nolan Carter
Who cares?
Easton Scott
I'm not joking user, there's literally a scene in the original book where an eleven year old girl gets (consensually) gang banged by a bunch of eleven year old boys, Stephen King is a sick fuck tbqh
Joseph Fisher
Where are you guys getting this turtle stuff from?
Camden King
Seriously, this happened. I remember that angered me actually that he would fuck up a decent quality novel like that. It derailed the whole fucking thing imho.
I'm imagining him coked out of his mind trying to stem the mania with downers and booze cooking this shit up and I don't even
Oliver Bennett
Driders are part humanoid
It isn't
Michael Sanders
That part in the original movie where the clown turns into a huge spider was the stupidest fucking thing I have ever seen. I watched it as a little kid and it completely destroyed the horror that had built up to that point. I don't care if that's what is like in the book, they should completely scrap that shit.
Also fuck Stephen King.
Justin Sanchez
Shock value. If you want the reader to hate somebody and to feel bad about somebody else add a rapescene. What an amazing writer, up there with george rr martin
Gabriel Richardson
God you people don't remember shit about this book.
The sweat lodge showed the coming of It to Earth. Mike and Richie were the ones who saw It.
The Turtle is largely inconsequential. He's the embodiment of the White/ka. He's nor at war with It. They just coexist and hate each other
Levi Lopez
This
Jacob Bell
Protip: King inserts unnecessary yet disturbing sexual subplots into a lot of his stories, it's pretty jarring if you're only familiar with the movie/tv adaptions of his works
Get the fuck off my board and return to wherever the fuck you came from
Colton Perry
>Stephen King cinematic universe this 'cinematic universe' meme has gone too far already
Christian Edwards
>Yfw they will show the turtle in this movie and the final scene will reveal elephants on its back and then they will start a full discworld cinematic universe and disregard king's stories forever because he's a hack
Aiden Mitchell
That's not in the book
Cameron Sanders
Didn't the turtle die because it puked inside its own shell and suffocated? How could It be scared of such a giant failure of a faggot animal?
Kayden Edwards
>He doesn't know it's a Sup Forums meme >Newfag detected
Jonathan Cooper
Is this shit in the book? It's been a while since I saw the original film.
Luke Rodriguez
>It was used ironically >N-newfag!
Not an argument
Luke Gonzalez
this guy gets it
Henry Miller
y u so mad?
Liam Mitchell
There's this book, and it's written by Stephen King, and it's called...
IT!
Evan Gomez
Digits confirm
The creatures from the dungeon dimension are scarier than IT anyway.
Aiden Richardson
Agreed. It would have been better to keep Pennywise's true form a secret from the audience.
A mystery is always more intriguing than an answer in fiction. Especially so in horror.
Dylan Gray
Absolutely not. Limp wristed liberal faggot who can't handle his booze or his vans.
Robert Nelson
He choked on some galaxies if I remember correctly.
Brody Garcia
King is such a fucking hack.
Angel Carter
>Vans
Ouch!
Asher Thompson
Steven King said he was a massive cocaine addict in the 80's. Apparently he doesn't even remember directing Maximum Overdrive.
Bentley Ross
The Turtle isn't a god, it's just one of the guardians of the beams. Like that giant cyborg bear.
Jeremiah Wood
I distinctly recall the line, "he choked to death coughing up some galaxy years ago" or something very similar.
Nolan Peterson
this book sounds wild af.
Sebastian Ortiz
>Giant cyborg bear
You mean Shardik
Cooper Reyes
That's... because he didn't direct it. He got director credits, but that wa smostly a publicity thing. He was, in practice, second chair director and didn't do much at all. It was (still is) something Hollywood likes to pull sometimes to get people in the theatre seats.
Dominic Diaz
>Shardik
That's the one!
Aiden Roberts
The gangbang is suggested by Bev as some B.S. metaphor for the loss of childhood innocence and was 100% consensual.
Or she's just some girl who got raped by daddy and now has issues with sex and relationships.
Ian Myers
How would he choke come to think of it? He's a space turtle, how does he get oxygen in the first place and why does he need it?
Charles Hall
Yup. Waste Lands was the peak of the DT series. It went downhill from there. It's the only book of the series that I re-read sometimes.
Hunter Hernandez
This is the best fanart ever!
Levi Martin
I've can never tell if King is actually bad, or just one of those guys who get hated because it's a really cheap way to signal you're refined.
Christopher Torres
So why is EVERYONE talking about this?
I refuse to believe IT was that popular, even miniseries got "eh" reactions aside Tim Cook.
I mean were the other series that requested on the past?
The fuck is going on?
Jace Clark
>Waste Lands was the peak of the DT series
Agreed
Eli Rogers
The miniseries is really weird because they act as adults like the gangbang actually happened.
Ayden Rivera
The later. He's good for what he is and he doesn't pretend to be some classy fuck. People have too much expectations of him because of his popularity and the number of things he's written. He's just a really good pulp writer. Close to being real literature, but not quite.
Joseph Smith
He for sure did. There's a while HDTGM episode about the film and also Blake Harris did an article about the film where king was continued to be credited as director. So either I can believe every single person involved with making and researching the film, or some guy online who is pretty sure Hollywood lies about that sometimes.
Charles Hernandez
The miniseries is pretty popular. People love to talk about Tim Curry as It. Idk about this new one though, Sup Forums and targeted ads on Facebook are the only things over seen about it. Maybe he didn't choke so much as over exert himself, like dying during childbirth? maybe it just lost its power and it was just saying that as a quick way to get across to the losers club that their sides' force was no longer around?
Daniel Lee
>Space eldritch alien that turns into a fucking clown
R E T A R D E D
Nolan Reyes
Shardik thread?
Parker Rogers
Are you unironically suggesting that the only thing keeping people from using highly offensive and derogatory terms is "PC-ness"?
Asher Kelly
Stephen King has even described his writing as being "The Big-Mac of literature."
Jonathan Scott
If Sup Forums was writing the script it would've been 2 hours of underage train in the sewers without any mention of It, just lots pf feet shots.
Colton Parker
He "died" because of what happened in the Gunslinger universe (the world changed).
Even back then King had some ideas about his DT series that went into his other works. He also wrote The Shining as a contrast to the death of Jake in The Gunslinger. Or the other way around, I forget. It's been some time since I read On Writing. Good book, btw.
Blake Watson
For some people, yes.
Evan Fisher
I never got why a dumb slingshot can harm literal god.
Jonathan Gomez
>just started listening to the IT audiobok >45 hours of wonderful horror entertainment
Feels good friends.
Ian Scott
>on writing I have that one, never finished it. I also have a shit ton of Stephen king books. It's what I grew up reading. I never read any of the dark tower series though. Hate to burst your bubble, but even now yes. Especially for people who were adults around the time The Stand was published.
Dominic Bell
Because they BELIEVED it would.
IT feeds on the fear of people through a psychic link. This link also makes IT vulnerable to people when they show courage.
It wasn't the slingshot that hurt IT, it was the kid's courage.
Gavin Ward
It wasn't the slingshot, it wasn't the silver, it was the losers club faith in the weapons and each other. Remember when Richie used his asthma inhaler by saying, "this is battery acid" he thrusts his fists against the post and still insists he sees the ghost
Zachary Johnson
I'd pay billions of dollars for this
Angel Green
Big Macs are comfort food if taken in moderation.
King>Barker>Rice>Koontz and Company(Z. Brite, Steakley, Harris, etc,)>Rowling>>>>>YA
Hudson Thompson
NO TIM CURRY
NO BUY
>mfw when IT will never sing Sweet Transvestite
Zachary Gonzalez
Who reads it?
Robert Kelly
But wouldn't ancient eldritch god know that slingshot is harmless to him/her?
Aiden Jackson
How to kill It: trick it into playing with you at "floor is now lava"
Gabriel Hall
...
are you serious or just pretending to be obtuse?
Landon Scott
How many people are gonna walk out of the theater when they're suddenly witnesses to an orgy with underage kids?