12 Castings For New Movies That Prove Hollywood Has Gone Insane

Either Will Poulter has got a very talented agent, or he's genuinely going to be the real deal. Fresh from picking himself up a number of new fans with The Maze Runner, he's got The Revenant upcoming at the end of the year with Leo DiCaprio, and now he's been cast as Pennywise.

The film-makers behind the new adaptation of Stephen King's coming-of-age horror had admitted that finding the right actor for the job was proving impossible, but nobody would have gambled on the young Brit getting the job.

Will It Work?

Everyone was always going to compare whoever got the role to Tim Curry, because he was incredible as the demonic clown. So perhaps this was a poisoned chalice for anyone with much of a reputation, and it needed a brave move by 

So-called "perfect" castings don't always work for horror films anyway - Jack Earle Haley SHOULD have been a great Freddie Kruger, after all - so a left-field choice might be a better approach.