All we know right now, and all we really need to know, is that
It hasn’t been abandoned. In an
interview with Collider, Lin indicated that of his 15 projects in development,
It was near the top of the priority list, and that Fukunaga’s work on
True Detective was “a great sample” for what he could bring to the adaptation. And, as
ScreenRant points out, that’s true — but not just because of the show’s split-timeline structure.
True Detective has, so far, interlaced hallucination and reality in a way that doesn’t lessen the real, physical threat of what you think you just saw. That’s the crux of
It: the terror (and mortal harm) that fantasy can impart.
Can we just jump into an optimistic casting game now, or do I have to buy you a drink first?