Perhaps one of the most iconic aspects of “It” is Pennywise’s ability to transform into each child’s specific fear. Throughout the book there are numerous flashbacks to 1957-1958, when Bill’s younger brother, Georgie, is murdered and the gang take on Pennywise for the first time.īut the film, perhaps banking on the wave of ’80s nostalgia triggered by “Stranger Things” (which also stars Finn Wolfhard), has the young Losers Club growing up during the 1980s, complete with New Kids on the Block jokes and nods to “Batman” and “Street Fighter.” Since “It” is in fact Chapter One of the story, and the film’s sequel, which is being written but still hasn’t technically been green-lit, will chronicle the Losers Club when they reunite as adults 27 years later, Chapter Two will now take place in the present day. In King’s book, the action is set between 1984-1985, when the Losers Club are adults. The most immediate difference between the novel and the film is the time period. The opening scene detailing Georgie’s murder is almost beat-for-beat lifted from the book’s opening chapter, with one huge exception: In the film, Georgie’s body is never recovered. As fans flock to see this year’s second major Stephen King adaptation on the big screen, here are six key changes the film makes that are different from the book. Luckily for “It” fans, the new film is pretty faithful to the source material, due in part to the filmmakers’ decision to split the story into two parts. Even 1990’s “It” TV mini-series, which clocks in at three hours and twelve minutes, doesn’t encompass everything King crammed into his exceptionally detailed book. Spoilers aplenty from here on out, so readers beware! But, as with so many film adaptations of classic novels, not everything in the book makes the final cut. With King’s mammoth novel sitting around 1,138 pages, the bloody details of Derry’s darkest days are fleshed out across multiple time periods. Derry had popped up in several King novels before “It,” including “Pet Cemetery” and the novella “The Body,” which served as the source material for the film “Stand By Me,” but it wasn’t until “It” that King fans really got to know the dark history and evil lurking in the sewers of the fictional Maine town. In 1986, King published “ It,” which introduced the world to seven scrappy kids nicknamed The Losers Club, who faced off against a child-killing, shape-shifting clown named Pennywise, an evil entity that was infesting their hometown of Derry, Maine. Clowns were always creepy, but then Stephen King came along.

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