Warner Bros. has been interested in a new feature film adaptation of Stephen King's IT for quite some time. The difficulty has always been how to tackle the material, as the book is over 1000 pages long and they weren't interested in a 3-hour movie structured like the 1990 miniseries.
Back in 2012, it was revealed that Cary Fukunaga would be directing and co-writing the new movie and a new interview reveals that the project continues to move forward. Here's what producer Dan Lin had to tell Collider about his upcoming projects:
"My next hope movie I hope is The Brotherhood. It’s to be directed José Padilha, who directed Robocop. So we’re out to cast on that. It’s genre that I love — cops, gangsters. Based on true story, a mob/cop story in 1980s New York. So we hope to shoot that in the fall. Then Cary Fukunaga is writing and directing Stephen King’s It for me, and I’m really excited for that. So I’m hoping that’ll be his next movie after the indie he’s shooting in Africa. So I love what he did with True Detective. I think it’s a great sample for Stephen King’s It. So I’m really excited about that."
According to previous reports, Cary Fukunaga would co-write the script with Chase Palmer and the plan was to break the material into two separate movies, but we don't know if that's still the case. We'll keep Daily Dead readers posted on any new developments. For those that haven't read the novel, here is the official plot synopsis:
"A promise made twenty-eight years ago calls seven adults to reunite in Derry, Maine, where as teenagers they battled an evil creature that preyed on the city's children. Unsure that their Losers Club had vanquished the creature all those years ago, the seven had vowed to return to Derry if IT should ever reappear. Now, children are being murdered again and their repressed memories of that summer return as they prepare to do battle with the monster lurking in Derry's sewers once more."
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