Stephen King's It Gets Mama Director Andy Muschietti

According to The Hollywood Reporter, New Line is in negotiations to have Andy Muschietti direct their feature film adaptation of Stephen King's It.

Muchietti only has one feature film under his directing belt and that was the 2013 horror film Mama, which starred Jessica Chastain and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. He spun a $15M budget into $146M worth of gold.

As for It, Cary Fukunaga (True Detective) had been attached to direct it for years but he exited the project in May. He was planning on making two films out of the material. THR reports that is still the plan.

Before Fukunaga departed he had selected Will Poulter (We're The Millers) to play Pennywise, the creature that disguises itself as a clown so that it can easily murder children in a small town. THR says, "the actor is no longer officially attached but could possibly return depending on scheduling and other factors."

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