Advance notice: The adaptation of Stephen King’s It will scare the crap out of you in 2017.
Variety reports that the movie version of It, the 1986 horror novel by Stephen King, will be released on September 18, 2017.
The novel follows seven children, who make up “The Losers Club.” Apart from dealing with normal problems like bullies and parents, these kids also face a terrifying shapeshifting monster named Pennywise. Aside from the clown most people know him as this monster can also take on the shape of other iconic childhood nightmare personas: It terrorizes the children as a mummy, a leper, a werewolf, and more.
After It manipulates, kills and/or hurts the kids and their friends/family it vanishes, but the Losers Club swear a blood oath to return to their home if it ever resurfaces. A little under 30 years later that’s exactly what happens, and the now-adult Losers Club come together again to defeat it once and for all. Do they succeed? You’ll have to read and find out… If you dare.
It‘s directed by Andrés Muscietti, who previously terrified us with Mama. Beasts of No Nation‘s Cary Fukunaga was originally set to helm, but dropped out due to creative differences, and Variety notes that this probably indicates that The Maze Runner actor Will Poulter (who was set to play Pennywise — which would have been perfect casting indeed!) will drop out as well.
The movie version of It will likely be split into two parts, for each of the time periods presented in the novel.
Stephen King’s It has previously been adapted as a TV miniseries in 1990, with Tim Curry as the eponymous It.
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