14 DAY TRIAL // For the first time in almost two years, specifics on the long-gestating Warner Bros. “It” remake have emerged online. Cary Fukunaga, who has been working on the script since sometime in 2009, will also direct.
Fukunaga may not be a name that instantly rings a bell, but he’s been enjoying lots of success thanks to last year’s “Jane Eyre,” the adaptation of the novel of the same name. He also directed “Sin Nombre.”
Now, he will oversee work on “It,” Stephen King’s longest, densest and, some say, most popular horror novel.
“Warner Bros. is planning to split ‘It’ into two films and has tapped Cary Fukunaga to direct its adaptation of Stephen King's horror thriller with Fukunaga co-writing the script with Chase Palmer,” Variety confirms.
“A quarter of Warner-based producers – Roy Lee, Dan Lin and the team of Seth Grahame-Smith and David Katzenberg via their Katz-Smith banner – are producing the long-in-development project,” the same media outlet says.
No estimated release date has yet been circulated. “It” has been in the works at Warners since 2009.