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Speaking to [_Vulture_](http://www.vulture.com/2014/12/fukunaga-to-shoot-stephen-kings-it-next-summer.html?mid=twitter%5Fvulture) on Dec. 4, producer Dan Lin confirmed that _True Detective_ director Cary Fukunaga is on board for a new adaptation of Stephen King’s _It_. “The idea is to start official prep in March for a summer shoot,” Lin, a producer on _The Lego Movie_, told _Vulture_. However, Lin said _It_ was too big to keep to one movie, and so the plan is to split _It_ into two films (which, if Lin takes inspiration from Peter Jackson, will turn into a trilogy culminating in _It:_ _A Pennywise for Your Thoughts_). Lin only confirmed Fukunaga’s involvement for the first film, but did say he is working to sign on the director for the second one as well. The two-part film does have some precedent in the case of _It_, however. The original 1986 novel has only seen one other major adaptation, a two-part miniseries on ABC that aired in 1990\. That version is particularly memorable for Tim Curry’s horrifying portrayal of Pennywise the Clown, and should serve as a standard-bearer for clown-based scares as Fukunaga and Lin prep their version. More so than signing on Fukunaga for both parts, Lin has been most concerned with earning the approval of one man: Stephen King. “The most important thing is that Stephen King gave us his blessing,” Lin said. “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.” [_This article originally appeared on Entertainment Weekly_](http://insidemovies.ew.com/2014/12/05/cary-fukunaga-stephen-king-it-2015-filming/?xid=IFT-Trending) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3620968/film-adaptation-stephen-kings-it/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3620968/film-adaptation-stephen-kings-it/"},"headline":"True Detective Director to Film Adaptation of Stephen King's It","datePublished":"2014-12-05T21:40:24.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T02:37:37.765Z","description":"The plan is to split 'It' into two films","url":"https://time.com/3620968/film-adaptation-stephen-kings-it/","keywords":["movies","Books","Stephen King","IT"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7fe240cee11b0c5e/69876d1206f2c185e6332b34/stephen-king-it-1990.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Entertainment Weekly / Jonathon Dornbush"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7fe240cee11b0c5e/69876d1206f2c185e6332b34/stephen-king-it-1990.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Stephen King's \"It\" (1990)","caption":"Stephen King's \"It\" (1990)","creditText":"Warner Bros.","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3620968/film-adaptation-stephen-kings-it/","name":"True Detective Director to Film Adaptation of Stephen King's It"}}]}] ```