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8th September 2017
10:30pm BST

"Besides Georgie in the sewer, I think it’s the one scene that everybody kind of brings up and it’s such a shame. While it’s an important scene, it doesn’t define the book in any way I don’t think and it shouldn’t. We know what the intent was of that scene and why he put it in there, and we tried to accomplish what the intent was in a different way."Dauberman co-wrote the movie based on an original draft by Cary Fukunaga, the director of the brilliant first series of True Detective, who was also originally lined up to direct IT before dropping out of the project in 2015. This brilliant video-essay goes into the differences in Fukunaga's draft and the one that eventually went into production, and you can check out part one of that essay below, along with parts two, three and four. Clips via LowRes Wünderbred Stephen King did talk about the orgy scene himself years later, when he answered questions about it on his own website:
"I wasn't really thinking of the sexual aspect of it. The book dealt with childhood and adulthood --1958 and Grown Ups. The grown ups don't remember their childhood. None of us remember what we did as children--we think we do, but we don't remember it as it really happened. Intuitively, the Losers knew they had to be together again. The sexual act connected childhood and adulthood. It's another version of the glass tunnel that connects the children's library and the adult library. Times have changed since I wrote that scene and there is now more sensitivity to those issues."
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