It has taken a winding road to the big screen. Like many Stephen King properties, it wasn’t quite clear what the best approach to the film would be. Should it be a mini-series on HBO, a single film, a trilogy, or two films? Clocking in at well over 1,000 pages, it was one of those stories that could have been tackled in many different ways.
Ultimately, the filmmakers decided that the best way for It to make the big screen would be in a two-part film series. However, rather than splitting the book in half, they decided to follow things chronologically. The way the original story is structured, it goes back and forth between the 1950s and 1980s — or between when the lead characters are kids and when they’re adults. Rather than do that, they thought it best to do one film about them as kids, and one film as adults.
Ultimately, the filmmakers decided that the best way for It to make the big screen would be in a two-part film series. However, rather than splitting the book in half, they decided to follow things chronologically. The way the original story is structured, it goes back and forth between the 1950s and 1980s — or between when the lead characters are kids and when they’re adults. Rather than do that, they thought it best to do one film about them as kids, and one film as adults.
- 7/27/2017
- by Joseph Medina
- LRMonline.com
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