Stephen King "it"The killer clown is back.

Warner Bros. is bringing Stephen King’s “It” to the big screen, almost two decades after the top-selling horror novel was turned into an TV miniseries starring Tim Curry as the sadistic clown Pennywise.

Dave Kajganich (”The Invasion”) has been hired to pen the screenplay, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Published in 1986, King’s novel follows a group of kids in the fictional town of Derry, Maine, as they encounter an evil entity called “It”. The creature, which lurks in the town’s sewers, preys on children by shape-shifting into their biggest fears, its favourite form being that of a balloon-wielding clown.

The story revolves around the main characters’ battles with It, first as children and then decades later as adults.

Besides Curry, the 1990 ABC miniseries starred John Ritter, Harry Anderson, Tim Reid, Annette O’Toole and Richard Thomas.






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