Nicholas Hamilton.
Young Australian actor Nicholas Hamilton has been cast in the film adapation of Stephen King's horror classic It.
The film will be directed by Andrés Muschietti (Mama), and is produced by Barbara Muschietti, Roy Lee, Dan Lin, David Katzenberg and Seth Grahame-Smith.
Hamilton caught the acting bug after playing Elvis Presley in a Year Five school production, the young actor told IF in January.
"I loved the behind the scenes [stuff] and all the rehearsals, and after the night of the play I went to my Mum and asked her what I had to do to get on TV", he said.
The teenager first joined a small agency in Lismore before being referred to Catherine Poulton Management in Melbourne, who soon secured him a part in Kim Farrant's Strangerland.
He's since starred in Captain Fantastic with Viggo Mortensen, which bowed at Sundance before heading to Cannes last month.
Per Deadline, Hamilton will play Henry Bowers in It, which is about an evil clown who terrorizes a group of kids in a small town.
The actor is on something of a hot streak. It is shooting in Toronto, where Hamilton has touched down after a stint in South Africa, where he filmed a small role in the adaptation of another Stephen King work, The Dark Tower, starring Idris Elba, Matthew McConaughey and fellow Aussie Abbey Lee (Mad Max: Fury Road, The Neon Demon).
Hamilton is repped by Catherine Poulton Management in Melbourne.