Stephen King’s It has many shocking moments including that of Pennywise eating a child’s hand, but nothing comes close as to how the book ends. If you’ve never seen the TV movie or read the book, here’s your SPOILER ALERT! STOP READING NOW.
At the end of the novel, the Losers Club find themselves lost in the sewers where Pennywise lives and Beverly decides that an act of unity is needed to keep them together, defeat Pennywise, and find a way out. She offers to have sex with all the boys representative of it being the end of childhood and their transition into adulthood.
The 1990 TV mini-series left this out and Andy Muschietti has confirmed that his 2017 film will not feature this scene as well. In an interview with Collider, he revealed that, he “thinks the whole story is a bit of a— approaches the theme of growing up, and the group sex episode in the book is a bit of a metaphor of the end of childhood and into adulthood. And I don’t think it was really needed in the movie, apart from that it was very hard to allow us to shoot an orgy in the movie so, I didn’t think it was necessary because the story itself is a bit of a journey, and it illustrates that.”
He added that “in the end, the replacement for it is the scene with the blood oath, where everyone sort of says goodbye.”
A sequel depicting the second half of the novel where the Losers Club are adults will begin production next year.
