Is There More to Mine From Stephen King’s ‘It’?

The number of Stephen King stories that have made their way to our screens is downright scary: over 50 movies (and counting), along with dozens of shows and miniseries. To become the highest-grossing King adaptation of them all is no small feat, then—one might say there has to be an It factor. Eight years ago, director Andy Muschietti’s big-screen imagining of It didn’t just break records within the Stephen King Cinematic Universe: By grossing over $700 million, It made more money than any horror film in history. Throw Muschietti’s sequel into the equation, and the two-parter was a billion-dollar behemoth.