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Directed by | Andrés Muschietti |
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Music by | Benjamin Wallfisch |
Cinematography | Chung-hoon Chung |
Edited by | Jason Ballantine |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
It (also known as It: Part 1 – The Losers' Club) is an upcoming 2017 American supernatural horror film based on Stephen King's 1986 novel of the same name, produced by KatzSmith Productions, Lin Pictures and Vertigo Entertainment, and distributed by Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema. It is intended to be the first installment in a planned duology, as well as being the second adaptation following Tommy Lee Wallace's 1990 miniseries. The film tells the story of seven children in Derry, Maine who are terrorized by the eponymous being, only to face their own personal demons in the process.
The film is directed by Andrés Muschietti and written by Chase Palmer, Cary Fukunaga and Gary Dauberman.Bill Skarsgård stars as Pennywise The Dancing Clown, with Jaeden Lieberher starring as Bill Denbrough. Jeremy Ray Taylor, Sophia Lillis, Finn Wolfhard, Wyatt Oleff, Chosen Jacobs, Jack Dylan Grazer, Nicholas Hamilton, and Jackson Robert Scott are all featured in supporting roles.Principal photography began in Toronto on June 27, 2016, and ended on September 21, 2016. The locations being used for It are in the municipality of Port Hope, Oshawa, Ontario, and Riverdale, Toronto.