Box office analysts were astounded by IT‘s success, and Stephen King himself couldn’t deduce the reason the film was so popular amongst general audiences.
Muschietti recently revealed that the sequel, IT: Chapter 2, will explore multiple dimensions and take the series back to the ’80s.
Unfortunately, its short, 3-hour length forced Wallace and co-writer Lawrence D. Cohen to cut multiple subplots out of the film.
But now, in an interview with EW, King credits the novel’s 1990 TV adaptation as well as simply being “the right movie at the right time.”