Is a high end corporate exec stalking Stephen King or what?
Not only is King's novel The Stand set to be made into a movie by Ben Affleck, a Pet Semetary reboot is in the works, Academy Award winning director Jonathan Demme (Silence of the Lambs) is making King's time-travel novel 11/22/63 into a film, King's short story The Ten O'Clock People was just optioned, The Dark Tower adaptation still has life, Showtime apparently wants Under the Dome to be a new televisions series, and now there is news of yet another Stephen King project.
It's good to be the King.
Stephen King's quintessential novel IT is set to finally make it's way to the big screen. (The novel was adapted into a 1990 ABC Miniseries). According to "Heat Vision" the film will be split into two and Cary Fukunaga (Jane Eyre) is set to direct. Fukunaga will also co-write the screenplay with Chase Palmer, and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter novelist Seth Grahame-Smith will also be a producer. I have to say I like this combination.
It's high time IT got its turn on the big screen. While I loved the original (the miniseries terrified me when I was a kid) the novel is just too tame for television. My only concern is that it is more than likely the studios will not set the dual time frames in 1958 and 1985 as in the novel. My guess is that it will be set in modern days with the childhood story aspect being set in the early 1980s. Now let's just hope they get the casting right.
*Not many people remember that the part of Richie Tozier was played by Seth Green (of Family Guy and Robot Chicken fame) in the original miniseries.
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