Early cinematic adaptations of IT tried to blend the adult-and-kid storylines into one movie, but Andres Muschietti’s upcoming IT is leaving the adult section out, and only focusing on the kids.
Stephen King fans who have been anticipating an adaptation of the author’s eponymous IT have been wondering how a film would balance the novel’s two major storylines.
When we sat down with the director in San Diego Comic-Con, we asked him why he took that approach, and he told us.
For anyone who hasn’t read it, the story of The Losers’ Club taking on Pennywise is split between two distinct time periods — when the characters are children, and when they are adults — and King masterfully weaves between both time frames throughout the whole book.