IT Prequel Series: Welcome to Derry (FALL 2025)

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Even in the recent movies, they left out of a lot of stuff from the novel

Some of that shyt would have been unacceptable on the big screen lol. I wouldn’t have been mad if they split it into 3 parts and included more though, especially the Black spot and logging camp.

 

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Some of that shyt would have been unacceptable on the big screen lol. I wouldn’t have been mad if they split it into 3 parts and included more though, especially the Black spot and logging camp.

They never should have been feature films. They should have done a GOT style run from the jump.

 

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They never should have been feature films. They should have done a GOT style run from the jump.

Maybe, but I’m sure HBO would have found a way to fukk that shyt up like stretching it out too far or something. I respect and appreciate what the films were able to do.

 

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It’s not really a remake. The old TV miniseries is a relatively loose adaption of the novels. The movies are a way closer adaption of the novels.

The two movies are the first real deal, big screen shot at telling the story. The movies make the miniseries look like a Tubi original.

Both the miniseries and the movies have similar range of faithfulness to the IT novel. Actually Part 2 might be even looser with the the Adult section.

Making IT into a movie was just a bad movie. The story has to be told in an serial streaming format to do it justice

 

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Both the miniseries and the movies have similar range of faithfulness to the IT novel. Actually Part 2 might be even looser with the the Adult section.

Making IT into a movie was just a bad movie. The story has to be told in an serial streaming format to do it justice

The miniseries was the bare minimum. I’ll gladly take ITpart II’s liberties than be stuck with that shyt again. I understand the limitations of TV studios of the time, but it’s still one of the most awful king adaptions out there. The movies were one of the few big screen adaptions that finally did a King horror story justice.

I can live with a different reason for Stan’s suicide, I can live with the missing hut/smoke:m/gamgbang scene, I can barely live with Mike’s fukked up role reduction, I can live the movie portrayal of the “spider”.

I don’t trust ANYONE not to fukk up a series and make it worse than the movies. The movies did job well enough. The movies are nearly what I’ve pictured everytime I’ve read that book since childhood.

 

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The miniseries was the bare minimum. I’ll gladly take ITpart II’s liberties than be stuck with that shyt again. I understand the limitations of TV studios of the time, but it’s still one of the most awful king adaptions out there. The movies were one of the few big screen adaptions that finally did a King horror story justice.

I can live with a different reason for Stan’s suicide, I can live with the missing hut/smoke:m/gamgbang scene, I can barely live with Mike’s fukked up role reduction, I can live the movie portrayal of the “spider”.

I don’t trust ANYONE not to fukk up a series and make it worse than the movies. The movies did job well enough. The movies are nearly what I’ve pictured everytime I’ve read that book since childhood.

The fundamental problem with both is that they separated the adult and kid stories. I recently rewatched Part 1 & 2 after finishing IT and Part 2 was just no longer good to me after reading the source material. I felt the miniseries handled the adult portion much better overall.

 

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The fundamental problem with both is that they separated the adult and kid stories. I recently rewatched Part 1 & 2 after finishing IT and Part 2 was just no longer good to me after reading the source material. I felt the miniseries handled the adult portion much better overall.

Re-reading the source material, for the 6th or 7th time is what made me appreciate Part II even more. It’s one thing to read about certain things (the edition I used to read as a kid was 1178 pages).


It’s another to be stuck watching whole episodes of Beverly getting her ass beat with a belt, or Eddie driving a limo and being emotionally abused by his needy ass wife.

Aside from the more interesting stuff going on in Derry’s past and present, there’s a lot that is better off staying on paper. That’s why I’d rather have had a third movie IF I absolutely needed more shyt included. Even then it would be hard to imagine the writers and producers not trying to stuff in a bunch of unimportant shyt.

We should honestly just be appreciative that this shyt didn’t end up like Salems Lot, or yet another fukk up of The Stand.

This new show will hopefully satiate everyone on the interesting things that happened in Derry’s past, even if it didn’t necessarily happen in the novel.

 

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Re-reading the source material, for the 6th or 7th time is what made me appreciate Part II even more. It’s one thing to read about certain things (the edition I used to read as a kid was 1178 pages).


It’s another to be stuck watching whole episodes of Beverly getting her ass beat with a belt, or Eddie driving a limo and being emotionally abused by his needy ass wife.

Aside from the more interesting stuff going on in Derry’s past and present, there’s a lot that is better off staying on paper. That’s why I’d rather have had a third movie IF I absolutely needed more shyt included. Even then it would be hard to imagine the writers and producers not trying to stuff in a bunch of unimportant shyt.

We should honestly just be appreciative that this shyt didn’t end up like Salems Lot, or yet another fukk up of The Stand.

This new show will hopefully satiate everyone on the interesting things that happened in Derry’s past, even if it didn’t necessarily happen in the novel.

I think it is vital to the story to have the story bounce around from adults to kids and back again. Oh and the interludes Looks like we'll at least get the Black Spot story.

By the time you get to the Spiderish IT, you have full understanding of what motivates and bonds the Losers and the repressed trauma into their adulthood (feels like King was working out Roland's story and the Ka is a wheel concept in this book). But besides the seven Losers, Derry is just as much as a main character. I think you get glimpses of that in Part 1 but it felt lessened in Part 2.
Ultimately, the best way to get the story is to read the book because it's way more going on than an interdimensional creature killing kids horror story which seems to be the main take away people get from the movies

Salem's Lot felt like it was hurt in the edit. I only seen the 90s The Stand.

 

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This new show will hopefully satiate everyone on the interesting things that happened in Derry’s past, even if it didn’t necessarily happen in the novel.

For me, I'm glad we're getting it, but I won't be satisfied by the show unless they actually run back the actual Losers Club story arc (ideally they do if the show is a mega-success).

 

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I think it is vital to the story to have the story bounce around from adults to kids and back again. Oh and the interludes Looks like we'll at least get the Black Spot story.

By the time you get to the Spiderish IT, you have full understanding of what motivates and bonds the Losers and the repressed trauma into their adulthood (feels like King was working out Roland's story and the Ka is a wheel concept in this book). But besides the seven Losers, Derry is just as much as a main character. I think you get glimpses of that in Part 1 but it felt lessened in Part 2.
Ultimately, the best way to get the story is to read the book because it's way more going on than an interdimensional creature killing kids horror story which seems to be the main take away people get from the movies

Salem's Lot felt like it was hurt in the edit. I only seen the 90s The Stand.

True. The only thing that really sucked about it all was the minimizing of Mike and his father’s story. If the upcoming show is what I think it is, it should probably do exactly what you’re saying. Tracing all the rot running under Derry, and exposing all the horror going on behind closed doors, that helps to exacerbate Pennywise’s 27 year buffet sprees.

 

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True. The only thing that really sucked about it all was the minimizing of Mike and his father’s story. If the upcoming show is what I think it is, it should probably do exactly what you’re saying. Tracing all the rot running under Derry, and exposing all the horror going on behind closed doors, that helps to exacerbate Pennywise’s 27 year buffet sprees.

Not having his parents in it and him being raised by his grandfather was a pointless change, like Georgie's body being missing.