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IT Director's Cut On The Way (Maybe)

posted 7 years ago by Reaperscout (606)
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Not good at making links clickable, but I've read a few articles saying that an IT Director's Cut is coming. It's supposed to add about 15 minutes of new footage. The Director's Cut and Blu-Ray/DVD/Digital Copy release is targeted for a December 2017 release too. Well, the articles said a Christmas release date, but I think they meant a December release date. They just said Christmas because it'll be available in time to be buy it as a Christmas present for yourself or someone that enjoyed the movie. If I had to make a guess, maybe the 12th or 19th of December as the Blu-Ray release date.

I would provide a link, but as I said, I'm not good at making things clickable. But I wouldn't have made this topic if I hadn't read an article or two on this info. So just doing a Google search of "It Director's Cut" should bring up a bunch of articles on it. And probably a few movie news sites have an article up. I saw it on my Facebook news feed.

[–] DracTarashV2 (4493) 7 years ago

Here's one

http://collider.com/it-directors-cut-blu-ray/

This is good to know and I'm definitely planning on getting it. While the scenes they said are going to be included sound good, it would be even better if this Director's Cut includes the "disturbing" flashback scene that Bill Skarsgard mentioned was cut -- one which gives us a look at Pennywise's origins. That's probably a scene they're going to save for the sequel, but the way he's described it sounds too good not to be released already. :)

[–] Reaperscout (606) 7 years ago

I read about that scene too. Would be interesting to see it be one of the new scenes added in the Director's Cut.

Kind of surprised that there is a Director's Cut, although this is an adaptation of a book, so some stuff probably got cut because of runtime. But everything in the trailers seemed to have been in the movie and not left out, so I didn't really see this coming. At least the Theatrical Cut is pretty good already.

[–] Ari (24) 7 years ago

"the 'disturbing' flashback scene that Bill Skarsgard mentioned was cut -- one which gives us a look at Pennywise's origins."

Is he talking about the Smokehole vision Richie and Mike had?

I hope so, I really do. It also explains this take on Pennywise, to a degree.

[–] DracTarashV2 (4493) 7 years ago

This is what he had to say [from an interview with Variety]:

“There was a scene we shot that was a flashback from the 1600s, before Pennywise was Pennywise. The scene turned out really, really disturbing. And I’m not the clown. I look more like myself. It’s very disturbing, and sort of a backstory for what IT is, or where Pennywise came from. That might be something worth exploring in the second one. The idea is the IT entity was dormant for thousands and thousands of years. The (flashback) scene hints on that.”

It's not a vision from "a million years ago", but it definitely hints at It's origins. I think more than anything it was meant to be like a teaser for what's to come in the sequel. Sounds very interesting.

[–] olioz (3701) 7 years ago

Sounds very cool. I'll definetely get the director's cut when it's released. At 2 hours and 15 minutes it didn't feel that long at all so I'm happy about all the extra footage they'll put in the DC.

[–] membrane29 (228) 7 years ago

Awesome news, I was hoping they would do that!

[–] Pliolite (4) 7 years ago

The flashback with a pre-Pennywise IT sounds like something they could open the 2nd movie with. There are also some amazing moments from the book they can put in the 2nd movie, like a flashback of the fire at the Black Spot (which was at least mentioned in the first movie) and maybe even do a version of the cut scene from the start of the book where the teen drowns as Pennywise looks on from the shadows (one of the creepier moments in the entire book)