Subscribe: Download App (Android): Download App (iOS): br 'Maze runner' and 'We're the Millers' actor Will Poulter is in negotiations to play the evil clown Pennywise in New Line Cinema's highly-anticipated remake of Stephen King's IT. New Line will break King's epic novel, about a group of children who fight off a child-killing clown known as Pennywise,into two movies. The first movie will focus on the lead characters as children and the other about them as adults. filming is slated to begin this summer in New York.br Poulter will next be seen in The Revenant, alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy and Domhnall Gleeson.