10 Things You Didn't Know About Stephen King's IT (1990)

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The highly anticipated retelling of Stephen King’s classic horror novel IT (2017) will be dancing its way into theaters this Friday! That being said, here are ten things you didn’t know about the 1990’s version of IT.

#1: The original King novel is much darker and disturbing which was obviously toned down for the miniseries. This includes more gruesome murders of adults and children alike. There’s even some incest but maybe the most off putting off all: there’s a part where Beverly, in order to keep the Losers Club or the Lucky Seven as they are called the book, united offers up her virginity, which the boys accept.

#2: Tim Curry was so unsettling as Pennywise the clown many of the cast would avoid him on set.

#3: John Ritter got to keep a souvenir from the film, a playing card with Pennywise’s face on it.

#4: Speaking of Pennywise, it’s hard to believe anybody but Tim Curry in the iconic role as the sinister clown. However, he was not the first person up for the role. Roddy McDowall, Malcolm MacDowell and even shock rocker Alice Cooper were all considered.

#5: Tommy Lee Wallace was not the original director. Originally it was to be directed by none other than George A Romero but due to scheduling conflicts while shooting the remake of Night of the Living Dead he had to bow out. It’s interesting to note that this also happened to Romero on another Stephen King project: Pet Sematary.

#6: Seth Green who plays young Richie is terrorized by a werewolf in a very memorable scene from the movie. In a bit of wonderful irony, Green would go onto play a werewolf on the hit show Buffy The Vampire Slayer.

#7: Wallace has been vocal about not being happy with the second half of the film and when interviewed by comingsoon.net he said quote “I don’t think the second part quite matches the first in its magic,” and went onto say “I have no doubt that another writer, perhaps Lawrence himself, could’ve improved on what I did, but I am proud of having captured a great deal more of the spirit of the book than had been there in the second part’s script when I first came on board.”

#8: Despite exchanging letters after shooting director Tommy Lee Wallace never met famed author Stephen King.

#9: It was no surprise that like their on-screen counterparts, the kids naturally bonded with one another off set, making the chemistry we see on-screen realistic.

#10: When director Tommy Wallace was asked what scene was most difficult to shoot, oddly enough, it was the toy boat in the iconic and frightening opening scene. Monofilament was used to pull the boat which wasn’t the problem as much as getting tracking shots of the boat. He also noted that making Georgie’s photo spring to life was another tricky scene to pull off.

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