A Certain Point of View: Writing, Film and Stuff

Dust jacket of the original 1986 hardcover edition. Art by Bob Giusti. Lettering by Amy Hill. (C) 1986 Viking Press/Penguin Random House I'm glad I don't live in Maine. Oh, I'm not talking about the real New England state that was once part of Massachusetts and is famous for its lobsters and still very rural ambiance. I've never even been there, although I wouldn't rule out a tourist excursion at some point in the future, though if I do go, it would probably be in the summer, since winters up North are too chilly and snowbound for this Miami native's taste. No, the Maine I'm talking about is the Maine that exists in the imagination of Stephen King. Quite a few of his novels are set there, most of them in the fictional towns of Castle Rock, Tarker's Mills, Jerusalem's Lot, Little Tall Island....and Derry. Here, in towns that have existed since before the American Revolution, the inhabitants of these communities have coexisted with vampires...

It (2017) AKA It: Chapter One Directed by: Andy Muschietti Screenplay by: Chase Palmer & Cary Fukunaga and Gary Dauberman Starring: Jaeden Lieberher, Bill Skarsgard, Wyatt Oleff, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Sophia Lillis, Finn Wolfhard, Jack Dylan Grazer, Chosen Jacobs, Nicholas Hamilton, Jackson Robert Scott From Page to Screen On September 15, 1986, Viking Press, a division of Penguin Random House, published It, a 1,138 horror novel by Stephen King set in the fictional town of Derry, Maine. In It, seven pre-adolescent children band together as the "Losers' Club" and confront It, an evil entity that exploits their innermost fears and takes many forms, including that of Pennywise the Dancing Clown. The novel depicts the Losers' Club's efforts to defeat It in two time periods - the late 1950s and 1985 - and often alternates between the two eras. Dust jacket of the original 1986 hardcover edition. Art by Bob Giusti. Lettering by Amy Hill. (C...