Most filmmakers inevitably end their careers with some unrealized projects. Adapting Stephen King's horror tome "IT" is one such effort for Cary Fukunaga , but also the late George Romero, godfather of the zombie movie.

The first "IT" adaptation was a 1990 TV mini-series, aired on ABC in two 90-minute episodes. Writer Lawrence D. Cohen, who previously adapted King's novel "Carrie" in 1976 for director Brian DePalma, wrote the script. Much of that script, though, was rewritten by director Tommy Lee Wallace. A friend and collaborator of John Carpenter, Wallace was an editor and production designer on the horror master's famous 1978 slasher "Halloween. Five years later, Wallace stepped up to direct "Halloween III: Season of the Witch." On "IT," Carpenter's understudy became Romero's.

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