Cary Fukunaga’s adaptation of It about to start pre-production

Last Updated on August 5, 2021

Cary Fukunaga, the director behind the great HBO series “True Detective,” is about to embark on his biggest project yet: a big-screen adaptation of Stephen King’s classic tome, IT. The project has been in the works for a while – longer than we actually suspected – and it appears as though “IT” is finally ready to set sail. (They all float down here.)

In an interview with the film’s producer, Dan Lin, Vulture reveals IT is almost ready to begin the pre-production faze.

The idea is to start official prep in March for a summer shoot,” said Lin. “Cary likes to develop things for a while, and we’ve been with this for about three or four years, so we’re super excited that he stayed with it. You guys are gonna be really excited.”

Lin confirms that the plan remains to split IT into two films:

The book is so epic that we couldn’t tell it all in one movie and service the characters with enough depth.”

And in case you were wondering if the Master of Horror himself was on board with the project, Lin assures us that Uncle Steve is all in.

The most important thing is that Stephen King gave us his blessing,” said Lin. “We didn’t 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, ‘Go with God, please! This is the version the studio should make.’ So that was really gratifying.”

Here’s IT’s synopsis:

It’s a small city, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. Only in Derry the haunting is real… They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they are grown-up men and women who have gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But none of them can withstand the force that has drawn them back to Derry to face the nightmare without an end, and the evil without a name.