Stephen King’s It Scheduled For September 2017 Release

The long in-development big screen adaptation of Stephen King’s epic horror novel ‘It’ finally has a release date.

Studio Warner Bros, who are releasing ‘It’ via their subsidiary New Line Cinema, have announced the first part of the two-volume film, to be directed by Andrés Muschietti, will hit US cinemas on 8 September 2017.

This would appear to confirm producer Roy Lee’s earlier pronouncement that the movie would shoot this year in California.

Lee remarked in February, “It will hopefully be shooting later this year. We just got the California tax credit… Gary Doberman wrote the most recent draft working with Andy Muschietti, so it’s being envisioned as two movies.”

There is no word yet on when we can anticipate the second film (or whether we can expect ‘It Vol 1′ to open in the UK at the same time).

First published in 1986, ‘It’ is one of King’s best-loved and lengthiest books (well over 1,000 pages), and was previously shot as a TV mini-series in 1990, with Tim Curry in the central role of the evil clown Pennywise.

‘Mama’ director Muschietti boarded the ‘It’ movie in summer 2015, replacing Cary Fukunaga (’True Detective,’ ‘Beasts of No Nation’) who left over differences with the producers.

Fukunaga claimed he left the project because the studio wanted “a much more conventional, inoffensive script,” but producer Lee has since insisted the film will remain R-rated.

Hand in hand with this announcement, Warner Bros also revealed that their upcoming comedy ‘CHiPs’ (based on the 1980s TV cop show) will open on 11 August 2017, whilst the studio will also release an as-yet unnamed PG-13 comedy on 22 December of that year.

Picture Credit: Warner Bros, Tor Publishing

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