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I agree, he’s a a good actor and he’s brilliant in this, he’s been solid in pretty much anything I’ve seen him in
Manhunter is a great film, Red Dragon feels like a by the numbers thriller, the story beats are pretty similar but the execution and style of Manhunter make it far more entertaining.
I disagree, Cox and Hopkins can’t really be compared, they were opposite style of performance, Hopkins played Lector like an otherworldly force of nature, Cox was basically a guy who you wouldn’t look twice at if you passed in the street, which one is scarier is down to peoples opinion.
I agree I was expecting them to reveal Mean Streets era De Niro when they said he would be in his 30s in the role, the last shot from the trailer looked like De Niro in Casino.
Or maybe they will and just aren’t putting it in the trailers.
So was the Frankie character originally meant to be Clemenza? I thought the actor who played Frankie was great but wondered where he’d come from as he’s not in the first film or in the flashback scenes, I definitely think it would have worked well if it had been Clemenza in that role.
Plus if he did kill Isildur he has to go back down the mountain and tell the entire race of men that he’s just murdered their king and the man who has only
minutes earlier defeated Sauron.
So how was the John Connor from the future who sent Reese back born? Did he just have another father in that timeline ? Or is it on just some sort of time loop where Kyle Reese was always sent back to 1984 ?
Maybe he wasn’t sure he could do it and could possibly have been killed himself, so fear to preserve his own life took over.
Check him out in the British film from the 1990s called Naked.
One of the best performances I’ve ever seen.
I think Jackie Brown is his best film
It’d have been totally different but just as interesting in my opinion, he might have been a bit darker than the film was going for though.
He also auditioned for the role of Judge Doom (Christopher Lloyd’s character)in Who Framed Roger Rabbit but was turned down by Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg because they found his audition absolutely terrifying, if he’d been cast as The Joker and able to bring that dark energy to it then maybe he’d have been somewhat similar to Heath Ledger.
Apparently he was Burtons second choice if Nicholson had turned it down, he also considered Willem Dafoe and Brad Dourif.
Curry later got the role of The Joker in the animated series but after a recording a few episodes he was deemed too scary for what was ultimately a kids show and replaced by Mark Hamill.
I wouldn’t mind seeing Pennywise just pop up unexpectedly in a future novel even if he’s just playing a minor part, or even have books where he’s simply alluded to or given hints that he still might be there like it does in Dreamcatcher and The Tommyknockers
In one of his other books (The Tommyknockers I think) a character is driving through Derry and notes that he sees a clown looking out from a storm drain but just shrugs it off as a hallucination.
Then in Dreamcatcher a character sees some graffiti that says “Pennywise Lives”
I’m not sure Stephen King is done with the character yet, two of the Losers Club meet the main character in 11/22/63 and they’re talking about “the clown” when discussing a murder.
That scene is in the new film, in the trailer you see Adrian calling for help and Pennywise appears at the riverbank, plus those thousands of balloons that Haggerty sees coming under the bridge is in the trailer too.
I’m guessing they’ll use it as the opening scene to show Pennywise is back.
Patrick in the book is way more disturbing and twisted than he was in the movie, I won’t spoil it in case you plan on reading the book, you won’t be disappointed.