UPDATE: Hemlock Grove’s Bill Skarsgård has been cast as Pennywise.
The actor who’ll be playing the role that Tim Curry made famous, Pennywise the Clown from the television adaptation of Stephen King’s It, is a pretty surprising choice. Variety reports that Will Poulter (We’re the Millers, Maze Runner) will be the one filling the over-sized shoes.
Now, before anyone starts screaming, “What?!? The nerd from Meet the Millers?!? Are they crazy?,” keep in mind that “True Detective’s” Cary Fukunaga is at the directorial helm of this film that is set to go places that the 1990 TV mini-series simply was not able to. Sources say in the end, Fukunaga could not say no after being blown away by Poulter’s audition for the part and felt he was the right choice for the role.
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This second adaptation of the classic novel will be split into two (or maybe three) parts, chronicling the childhood and then adult life of the main characters. At this time Fukunaga is only attached to direct the first part. Seth Grahame-Smith, David Kajganich, and Chase Palmer penned the new feature for Warner Bros.
More as we get it!