Warner Bros is Re-Adapting ‘It’ for the Big Screen

Published by Jeff Leins on: March 13th, 2009

Warner Bros is about to ruin clowns for a whole new generation.  Stephen King’s horror novel It is receiving a new adaptation and this time it will show in theaters.

Dave Kajganich (The Invasion) will take a shot at condensing the 1,100+ page novel into the typical 90-minute horror movie.  It was the best-selling book of 1986.

The 3-hour miniseries in 1990 starred Tim Curry as Pennywise (the creepy clown seen left) and the late John Ritter.  It followed a group of kids called the Losers Club encounter a creature called “It,” which preys on children and whose favorite form is that of a sadistic clown. When the creature resurfaces, the kids are called upon to regroup again, this time as adults, even though they have no memory of the first battle.

Watching it recently, I noticed it is quite dated, but so is the Godfather at times and no one says, “You know what would be good make us a lot of money?  A new Godfather.”  I hope that day never comes, my friends.

Either Stephen King isn’t producing the classic scary novels like he used to or this is just another recognizable property ripe for a remake.  Nevermind that almost every horror movie these days is a redo, this is just another in a long list of “Hey, people have heard of that.  Let’s update it.  Great.  Now let’s go because tee off is in an hour.”  I’m going to venture that it’s a little of both.

For the record, Stephen King’s novels have been adapted far more than any other author.  There are currently 109 movie and TV adaptations of his work completed or in production.  King has written a total of 54 novels (not including short stories).