![]() ![]() (His dad doesn’t want him to be a “sheep.”) His parents are still alive in the draft, but his dad spends the second half of the movie in the hospital, dying of cancer. In the movie, he’s just kind of … there, but the script fills in more about his character, including why he’s homeschooled. Bev still knocks him out with the lid of a toilet tank, but the moment that caused the biggest jump-scare in my theater - Pennywise showing up immediately afterward - doesn’t happen. While the movie subtly implies that he’s been abusing her for a long time, in the original script, the potential for abuse is more of an implied threat - until the very end, when he tries to assault her, a scene that goes much further than the movie’s version. They commit police brutality against Mike’s dad, and they end up framing an one-legged WWII veteran for the murders.īeverly’s dad is shaded a little differently. In the original script, the cops are more involved with trying to solve the disappearances, but they’re hardly helpful. The movie makes a big thing about how the town brainwashes all the adults into not caring so much about the missing kids. Police are generally more hands-on about everything. Instead, Bev is the one who comes up with the diversion, by having Eddie fake an allergic reaction. There’s no scene of Beverly flirting with the creepy pharmacist. In the draft, this is where pyromaniac Patrick Hocksetter meets his unfortunate end, and it’s how the kids get to Pennywise’s HQ for the final showdown. Fukunaga’s script adds a third: an abandoned ironworks outside town. In the movie, the scariest bits happen in two places: the sewer entrance by the river, and the abandoned house on Neibolt Street. There’s another “freaky place” in town: the Kitchener Ironworks. Which is maybe a little too similar to a moment in The Shining, but it does tie into Stan’s bar-mitzvah arc. Pennywise first appears to Stan as a naked woman, not a lady in a painting. There’s no New Kids on the Block gag, or Molly Ringwald shout-out. The ’ 80s references are more toned-down. Unfortunately, this doesn’t make Bev’s home life any better: Mom is heavily drugged-up, and she has a gross scene where she lectures a squeamish Beverly about periods, then holds up a bloody tampon. Not so in the original draft, where it’s common knowledge that the poor boy suffered a terrible death.īill’s mom has actual lines, and she and the dad (who’s anachronistically named Zach) have a tiny arc about getting over Georgie’s death. In the finished film, Bill holds out hope that his little brother is still alive, and his search for Georgie motivates a lot of the action. (Poulter left the project with Fukunaga, leaving room for Bill Skarsgård to jump in.)Įveryone knows Georgie got his arm ripped off. Here’s how Fukunaga and Palmer envision the infamous clown: “Not Bozo, or Ronald McDonald, but something more old world, freakish, like that of a 19th-century acrobat - bald, lithe, almost child-like.” Fukunaga considered Ben Mendelsohn and Mark Rylance for the part, but he eventually cast the younger Will Poulter. Grab a flashlight and a gang of nerdy teens, and let’s explore. The movie that’s in theaters keeps most of the skeleton of Fukunaga and Palmer’s version, but there are a few key differences. Fukunaga’s original script has been floating around online for a while, and it makes for fascinating post-viewing reading. Those first two names are a vestige of an earlier incarnation of the movie, which was primed to be Fukunaga’s follow-up to Beasts of No Nation until the director parted ways with New Line over budget cuts, which he reportedly felt would “compromise his artistic vision.” The studio eventually hired Andy Muschietti to direct the film, and given the box office, you’ve got to figure everyone’s pretty happy with how It turned out. When Ithit theaters earlier this month, it arrived with a screenplay credited to Cary Fukunaga, Chase Palmer, and Gary Dauberman. Photo-Illustration: Maya Robinson/Vulture and Photos by Getty Images and Warner Bros. ![]() “We’re all handsome and talented directors down here.”
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