Stephen King and Bangor, Maine Are Celebrating the Upcoming Release of IT
The town of Bangor, ME, which is the home of celebrated author Stephen King, is getting into the spirit of IT, which will be coming out in just over a week. Per Bangor Daily, bookstore Gerald Winters and Son have decorated the street outside their storefront with a bloody galosh right next to a sewer grate plus they have some decorations inside. Additionally, King himself has put a red balloon in the window of his home, which is visible from the street.
You can read more about it at the link above and you can see images of this below.
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Stephen King’s IT has been rated R for “violence/horror, bloody images, and for language.”
Jaeden Lieberher, Finn Wolfhard, Nicholas Hamilton, Jack Dylan Grazer, Wyatt Oleff, Chosen Jacobs, Jeremy Ray Taylor, and Sophia Lillis star with Bill Skarsgard, who portrays Pennywise. In addition, creature performer Javier Botet has signed on as The Leper, and Owen Teague plays Patrick Hocksetter, part of a group of bullies who torment The Losers’ Club.
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IT hits theaters on September 8th. Andrés Muschietti directs.
The behind-the-scenes creative team includes director of photography Chung-Hoon Chung (Me and Earl and the Dying Girl), production designer Claude Paré (Rise of the Planet of the Apes), editor Jason Ballantine (The Great Gatsby), and costume designer Janie Bryant (“Mad Men”).
Synopsis:
When children begin to disappear in the town of Derry, Maine, a group of young kids are faced with their biggest fears when they square off against an evil clown named Pennywise, whose history of murder and violence dates back for centuries.
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