Considering opening weekend projections were initially around $50-60 million, it’s done exceptionally well.
And, as anyone who’s seen it will know, the final title screen of “IT: CHAPTER ONE” implies that more is to come.
Indeed, a sequel is in the works – hardly surprising, given that Stephen King’s original novel was well over 1,000 pages.
So when is Chapter Two out?
No firm date is set in stone just yet – but Variety cites director Andy Muschietti as saying the script should be completed by January 2018.
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Pre-production will then kick into motion next spring, with a likely release in 2019.
He said: “Part one is only about the kids. Part two is about these characters 30 years later as adults, with flashbacks to 1989 when they were kids.”
King himself is known to be a big fan of the movie, which stars Bill Skarsgard as the feared Pennywise the Clown.
Muschietti said: “He tweeted about it and said the movie exceeded his expectations. After that we started a private email exchange because I was so excited about his response.
“My first letter was me asking for indulgence and forgiveness for having changed things. The story is the same, but there are changes in the things the kids are scared of.
“In the book they’re children in the ’50s, so the incarnations of the monsters are mainly from movies, so it’s Wolf Man, the Mummy, Frankenstein, Dracula. I had a different approach.
“I wanted to bring out deeper fears, based not only on movie monsters but on childhood traumas.
It is out now.