A Certain Point of View: Writing, Film and Stuff

The Deadly Years   Stardate 3478.2 (Earth Calendar Date 2267)   Episode Production Number: 60340   Episode Number (Aired): 40   Original Air Date: 12/8/67   Writer: David P. Harmon   Director: Joseph Pevney       " Captain's log, stardate 3478.2. On a routine mission to resupply the experimental colony at Gamma Hydra IV, we discovered a most unusual phenomenon. Of the six members of the colony, none of whom were over thirty, we found four had died and two were dying ... of old age. "  During the third year of her five-year deep space mission, the  Starship Enterprise,   Capt. James T. Kirk  (William Shatner) commanding, arrives at the experimental colony on Gamma Hydra IV.  Her assignment, to resupply the team of six Federation scientists – none of whom are over the age of 30 – who are assigned  there.  Capt. Kirk, First Officer Spock (Leonard Nimoy), Dr. Leonard McCoy (DeForest Kelley),  Ens. Pa...

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...