Cary Fukunaga has racked up quite the resume in Hollywood, with projects like True Detective, Jane Eyre, and Beasts of No Nation just to name a few. He's received accolades from the Television Academy and the Sundance Film Festival, and has worked as a producer on a number of projects. But there’s one that fans recognize that hangs over his head, despite the fact that he never saw the project to completion: 2017’s IT. Fukunaga had been hired to write and direct the adaptation of Stephen King’s classic horror novel before it went into production, even going so far as to write a complete script for the project before backing out — but why?
Ahead of the premiere of No Time to Die, the film that would make Fukunaga the first American to direct a James Bond film, the director spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about his directing career and how he landed a Bond film. Fukunaga addressed the rumors circling around his departure from the production, assuring readers that there was really no bad blood between himself and the production crew — he insists that is the truth — but rather just creative differences, for as often as that term gets thrown around Hollywood:
“I was on that for four or five years with Warners and then it got moved to New Line, right before we were about to go into production...I think New Line’s view of what they wanted and my view of what I wanted were very different. I wanted to do a drama with horror elements, more like The Shining. I think they wanted to do something more [pure horror] like Annabelle [from the Conjuring films]. That was essentially the disconnect.”
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