Pennywise the clown
The 1986 novel follows childhood friends drawn together as adults to fight the murderous clown Pennywise.
The book was made into a three-hour TV mini-series in 1990, with Tim Curry.
Since then the film rights have bounced around Hollywood, but Warners have now signed The Invasion screenwriter Dave Kajganich to adapt King’s novel.
Kajganich is also working on an adaptation of King’s Pet Sematary, first adapted for screen in 1989.
The novel It, was a best-seller when it was first published.
In the story a group of children, who call themselves the Losers, are menaced by It, a sewer-lurking creature of pure evil which can take the form of the children’s greatest fears.
Nearly 30 years later, the creature returns but the adults, who promised to fight it whenever it appeared, have only hazy memories of their childhood encounters.
The miniseries was once voted the scariest TV programme of all time by Radio Times readers.
The plot was originally set in 1958 and 1985 but the film version will be set in the present day, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
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