True Detective's Cary Fukunaga is searching for "the perfect guy to play Pennywise" for his upcoming remake of Stephen King’s It

Bloody Disgusting (via Portuguese paper O Globo) reports that Fukunaga revealed that the project has been a long process, and that he has been working on an It remake for several years and still hasn't found the right actor for the iconic killer clown.

“I’ve been in this project for about five years. I had already read versions of the script but nothing felt right. Everybody tried to put too much into it, telling it from the perspective of the adult and the child in a two hour movie. It didn’t fit. So I decided to throw it all away and start from scratch," said Fukunaga.“This will be my first movie in the US and I’m still trying to find the perfect guy to play Pennywise," he added. "It’s really good to know Stephen [King] likes what we did. We [Fukunaga and writers David Kajganich and Chase Palmer] changed names, dates [the story is originally set in the '60s] dynamics, but the spirit is similar to what he’d like to see in cinemas, I think.”Stephen King's It novel was adapted into a 1990 miniseries starring Tim Curry as Pennywise. Producer Seth Grahame-Smith has said the new film " will bring back some of the viciousness of the book that they couldn’t do with the [1990 TV] miniseries." Production on the film will start this summer.

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