Pennywise the Dancing Clown appears to be causing problems for more than just the Losers Club: Warner Bros., which distributed the 2017 film adaptation of Stephen King’s It and has a sequel due out in September, now faces a lawsuit from one of the producers on the 1990 ABC miniseries adaptation of the same book. Larry Sanitsky, who produced the ’90s adaptation alongside the late Frank Konigsberg, claims in a lawsuit that Warner breached his contract by making its film adaptations without him—and that the studio shortchanged both him and Konigsberg in profit participation from their miniseries.

As Variety reports, Sanitsky and Konigsberg developed the It miniseries for ABC while they were still running the company Telepictures—which they left after its merger with Lorimar, but, the lawsuit alleges, not before signing a pact to secure their back end participation and involvement in any rehash of the two-part miniseries. According to the lawsuit, Warner Bros. went forward with both 2017’s It and the sequel without consulting Konigsberg or Sanitsky. (Konigsberg died in 2016.) Further, the suit claims that Warner stopped issuing profit-participation statements for the miniseries in 1995—and that when the studio released its first participation statement since then in March, it demonstrated that Warner owed the two $1 million.

From its premiere weekend onward, Andy Muschietti’s 2017 It adaptation was a box office smash; worldwide the film has grossed more than $700 million.

Profit participation, not surprisingly, is not an uncommon subject for Hollywood lawsuits; in late 2013, Frank Darabont sued AMC over allegedly being shortchanged by The Walking Dead after he was fired halfway through season two. (That $300 million lawsuit heads to trial next year.) Representatives for Warner declined Variety’s request for comment, and did not immediately respond to V.F.’s request for comment.

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