'It' film adaptation moves forward
The movie adaptation of Stephen King鈥檚 novel 鈥淚t鈥� is reportedly moving forward.
As was previously reported, 鈥淭rue Detective鈥� director Cary Fukunaga is directing the film adaptation. According to Vulture, the novel is being split into two films.
鈥淭he book is so epic that we couldn鈥檛 tell it all in one movie and service the characters with enough depth,鈥� 鈥淚t鈥� producer Dan Lin told .
As book fans know, the book is divided into the adventures of a group of children who run afoul of an evil force. Then the novel fast-forwards to the group as adults, who come together to face off against the evil again. According to Vulture, the movies will be divided this way and Lin said that while Fukunaga is officially signed on for the first film only at this time, he鈥檚 close to a deal to at least co-write the second movie.聽
Lin said King is fully on board.聽
鈥淲e didn鈥檛 want to make this unless he felt it was the right way to go, and when we sent him the script, the response that Cary got back was, 鈥楪o with God, please! This is the version the studio should make,鈥欌�� he said. 鈥淪o that was really gratifying.鈥澛�
According to Lin, they鈥檙e planning to start filming this summer.
"It" is not the only King novel currently moving toward production. As we noted before, Josh Boone, who was behind this summer鈥檚 movie adaptation of 鈥淭he Fault in Our Stars,鈥� said in a recent interview that he鈥檚 directing an adaptation of King鈥檚 book 鈥淭he Stand鈥� and that it will be filmed in four parts, echoing the multiple-film approach to 鈥淚t.鈥澛�
Like 鈥淪tand,鈥� 鈥淚t鈥� was previously adapted as a miniseries, with actor Tim Curry memorably portraying the villainous clown Pennywise.
