In fact, in his adaptation of Stephen King’s beloved novel, Andy Muschietti was pretty liberal with the changes he wanted to make, whether those changes involved altering the monsters that Pennywise turned into or cutting the infamous orgy scene.
The result is a story that seems to stand on its own merit and paves the way for the eventual sequel to similarly tell a unique story about friendship and fear.
Fans that have kept up with the IT universe likely already know that this is one of many sequences to get the ax (or change in some way) over the course of the film’s development.