Yesterday we were given a new poster and a teaser for IT, the new movie adaptation of Stephen King‘s book of the same name, with the promise of a first trailer being released sometime today.

That sometime is now, as the first trailer—and our first real look at the movie that has both excited and severely worried fans of the book and the 1990 TV movie adaptation starring Tim Curry as Pennywise the clown over the past few years—has now been released to the masses.

Grab a balloon and head below to give it a peek and find out if it looks like you hoped, or perhaps feared, it would look.

SYNOPSIS:

New Line Cinema’s horror thriller IT, directed by Andrés Muschietti (Mama), is based on the hugely popular Stephen King novel of the same name, which has been terrifying readers for decades.

When children begin to disappear in the town of Derry, Maine, a group of young kids is faced with their biggest fears when they square off against an evil clown named Pennywise, whose history of murder and violence dates back for centuries.

IT stars Bill SkarsgÃ¥rd (Allegiant, TV’s Hemlock Grove) as the story’s central villain, Pennywise. An ensemble of young actors also star in the film, including Jaeden Lieberher (Midnight Special), Jeremy Ray Taylor (Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip), Sophia Lillis (37), Finn Wolfhard (TV’s Stranger Things), Wyatt Oleff (Guardians of the Galaxy), Chosen Jacobs (upcoming Cops and Robbers), Jack Dylan Grazer (Tales of Halloween) and Nicholas Hamilton (Captain Fantastic).

Muschietti is directing IT from a screenplay adapted by Chase Palmer & Cary Fukunaga and Gary Dauberman. Dan Lin, Roy Lee, Seth Grahame-Smith, David Katzenberg and Barbara Muschietti are producing, with Marty P. Ewing, Doug Davison and Jon Silk serving as executive producers.

The behind-the-scenes creative team includes director of photography Chung-Hoon Chung (Me and Earl and the Dying Girl), production designer Claude Paré (Rise of the Planet of the Apes), editor Jason Ballantine (The Great Gatsby), and costume designer Janie Bryant (TV’s Mad Men).

IT is set to arrive in theaters later this year on September 8th.

If interested, you can find more on the movie right here, including some images and all the details on some of the drama the project went through before this version began to take shape.

Trailer

IT – Official Teaser Trailer (U.S.)

UK Trailer:

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