IT director Andy Muschetti says that Stephen King personally approved the plot changes made when adapting the story to film.
IT serves as one of the most extreme examples of King’s tendency towards epic length, clocking in at over 1100 pages.
The above sentiments jive with King’s generally expressed opinions about the new IT film, with the author recently saying that he “was not prepared” for how good it was.
He wrote me an email expressing how much he had liked it and that I shouldn’t worry because all the changes were approved.”