Andy Muschietti to Adapt TIME MACHINE with Leonardo DiCaprio Producing

Director Andy Muschietti is set to develop a film adaptation of H.G. Wells' "The Time Machine" with Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way producing along with Warner Bros. and Paramount Pictures, according to Variety.

Andy, who will direct, and his producer sister, Barbara Muschietti, wrote a treatment for the film. Barbara will produce with DiCaprio and Appian Way's Jennifer Davisson.

Wells published the original "Time Machine" in 1895 with the unnamed Time Traveller using a machine to stop in A.D. 802,701, where he finds that society has devolved into an elite of Eloi and the downtrodden Morlocks, then travels 30 million years ahead to find the Earth dying before returning to Victorian times.

Arnold Leibovit is executive producing. He was an exec producer of the 2002 movie version that starred Guy Pearce. The first film version was directed by George Pal in 1960.

Andy Muschiett directed the latest adaptation of Stephen King's "It." It became the biggest horror film of all time with $700 million worldwide. He is currently in production on the sequel, "It: Chapter 2."

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