Warner Brothers to bring Stephen King's IT to the big screen

"Warner Bros. is bringing Stephen King's landmark horror novel "It" to the big screen in an adaptation being produced by Lin Pictures and Vertigo Entertainment.

Dave Kajganich has been hired pen the script, which follows a group of kids called the Losers Club that encounter a creature called It, which preys on children and whose favorite form is that of a sadistic clown called Pennywise. 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.

The novel is set in 1958 and 1985, though the feature version will be set in the present day."
Stephen King's 'It' heads to theaters

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Oooooh. That clown scared the sh*t out of me.

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IMHO, all of King's books are so much more frightening in your head than onscreen. The clown in my head, as I was reading the book, was far scarier than Tim Curry could ever have been.

But, I wish them the best.

I LOVED this book.

CHRISTINE is one of the best books ever written about American teenagers.

Not to mention Carrie, which is the one book I've read more than any other. I think It is one of King's finest horror tales, just under The Shining and Salem's Lot, perhaps. I read it as a teenager and it scared the bejeezus out of me. But as with most King novels, the ending will be a challenge. His descriptions of these terrifying monsters and images are difficult to transfer to the screen without them coming across as cheesy and hokey.

When will we finally get a non-television film treatment of Rose Madder or Bag of Bones? I would love to see Alfonso Cuarón direct Bag of Bones and perhaps Guillermo del Toro for Rose Madder.

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and john boy! don't forget john boy!

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Ha, and Seth Green.

Whoever played Henry Bowers didn't turn out like anything I had imagined from the book. He was like an evil Fonz.

I wasn't crazy about the TV version, but Tim Curry was perfect in it.

Updated On: 3/17/09 at 12:07 PM

I can't believe it but somehow I never saw the TV version.

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