<P> Stephen Bogaert appears as Alvin Marsh, the abusive father of Beverly Marsh; Molly Atkinson appears as Sonia Kaspbrak, the overprotective mother of Eddie Kaspbrak; Geoffrey Pounsett appears as Zack Denbrough, the father of Bill and George Denbrough; Pip Dwyer appears as Sharon Denbrough, the mother of Bill and George Denbrough; Stuart Hughes appears as Oscar "Butch" Bowers, a police officer and abusive father of Henry Bowers; Steven Williams appears as Leroy Hanlon, the stern grandfather of Mike Hanlon, who runs a nearby abattoir; Ari Cohen appears as Rabbi Uris, the father of Stanley Uris; Joe Bostick and Megan Charpentier appear as Mr. Keene and Gretta Keene, the pharmacist at Derry, and his teenage daughter who targets Beverly for ridicule, respectively . </P> <P> The project first entered development in 2009 . The proposed film adaptation went through three phases of planning: initially a single film with screenwriter David Kajganich; then the dual film project, first with Cary Fukunaga attached as director and co-writer, then with Andy Muschietti . </P> <P> On March 12, 2009, Variety reported that Warner Bros. would bring Stephen King's novel to the big screen, with David Kajganich adapting the novel, and Dan Lin, Roy Lee and Doug Davison producing the piece . When Kajganich learnt of Warner Bros .' plans to adapt King's novel, he went after the job . Knowing that Warner Bros. was committed to adapting It as a single feature film, Kajganich began to reread the novel in an attempt to try to find a structure that would accommodate such a large number of characters in two different time periods, around 120 pages, which was one of Warner Bros .' stipulations . Kajganich worked with Lin, Lee, and Davison on The Invasion (2007), and he knew they would champion good storytelling, and allow him the time to work out a solid first draft of the screenplay . Kajganich spoke of the remake being set in the, "mid-1980s and in the present...mirroring the twenty - odd - year gap King uses in the book...and with a great deal of care and attention paid to the backstories of all the characters". </P> <P> Kajganich also mentioned that Warner Bros. wished for the adaptation to be rated R, saying, "...we can really honor the book and engage with the traumas (both the paranormal ones and those they deal with at home and school) that these characters endure". He said that his dream choice for Pennywise would be Buster Keaton if he were still alive, and that the Pennywise that he scripted is "less self - conscious of his own irony and surreality". As of June 29, 2010, Kajganich was re-writing his screenplay . </P>

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