It: where to start reading
Adapts It by Stephen King. Say how far you watched, and pick the book up exactly there.
at It.
The first film covers the Losers Club as children, which is roughly half of the novel's material. The book interleaves the childhood and adult storylines rather than telling them in two blocks, so there is no clean chapter to stop at. Reading the whole novel is the natural path.
It (2017) leaves off about 50% in. Pick the book up right there:
It
What the movies changed here
- ChangedThe Losers' childhood is moved from the book's 1958 up to the 1980s.
- ChangedBen becomes the group's history researcher, a role that belongs to Mike Hanlon in the novel.
- ChangedMike's close bond with his father Will is dropped; a harsher grandfather takes his place.
- ChangedMike's fear is reworked into a house fire; the book's version is a giant Rodan-style bird.
- CutThe film covers only the childhood timeline; the novel interleaves the kids' and adults' stories throughout.
Stephen King's single 1986 novel It is split across two films. It (2017) covers the childhood half; It Chapter Two (2019) covers the adult half. The novel itself interleaves both timelines, so the films untangle a structure the book braids together.
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