Fukunaga himself will also attend to scripting duties alongside Chase Palmer with David Katzenberg, Roy Lee, Dan Lin and Seth Grahame-Smith producing.
IT joins other in-development King adaptations of The Stand, The Dark Tower (both also eyed as multi-part epics), Carrie and, just announced this week, The Ten O’Clock People. His recent novel, Under the Dome is also headed to television, planned to air as a Showtime series with Steven Spielberg executive producing.