It - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of It or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to It

[darrell]

Finn Wolfhard was the only member of Cary Joji Fukunaga's cast for the movie who ended up staying on the project when Andy Muschietti took over as director.

[sophie]

When the Losers Club are at the 4th of July festival, a clown can be seen performing on a nearby stage. The clown's suit greatly resembles serial killer John Wayne Gacy's clown suit.

[gerald]

Bangor, Maine is the only US location used in the film (which is set in the fictional town of Derry). All other location shooting was done in Canada.

[jessie]

Before release, the film was initially projected to earn around $50 million on its opening weekend. The number gradually grew as good word of mouth became evident. Ultimately, the film made more than double its initial tracking numbers in its opening weekend by making about $123 million.

[leo]

John Oliver was such a fan of the novel that he was cast as an extra in this film. Oliver can be seen in the town's diner.

[lonnie]

The order in which the Losers' Club leave after the blood oath is the order in which they die or are injured in the book. Stanley leaves first, who commits suicide after learning that It has returned. After giving a hug to Richie, Eddie leaves next, who dies in the final confrontation between It and The Losers Club. The hug between the two could symbolize Richie's love for Eddie, as he sacrifices himself to save Richie. Mike leaves third, being heavily injured when he was attacked by Henry Bowers, but ultimately survives. The rest of the members survive and are relatively uninjured by the end of the book.

[frederick]

It's most true form is bright orange lights that exist in the "Macroverse" called Dead Lights. Seeing these will cause any human to go insane. They make a brief appearance in the movie when Pennywise opens his mouth while holding onto Bev.

[phyllis]

Stephen King wrote several books about writer's block. It, Misery and The Shining are just three of them. (Salem's Lot also touches on this).

[brent]

Belch Huggins (Jake Sim) wears a shirt featuring the band Anthrax, with the phrase "Follow me or die" on the back. This is a lyric from Anthrax's song "Among the Living", which the band wrote about another Stephen King book, "The Stand".

[gerald]

Bill Skarsgård's father, Stellan Skarsgård, appeared with the original actor of Pennywise, Tim Curry, in The Hunt for Red October (1990).

[tom]

A spoof of the story titled "IT Happens" is the first segment in The Simpsons' Treehouse of Horror #23, the twenty-third and final issue of the Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror, a horror comedy anthology comic book series inspired by the eponymous yearly episodes on the show. It was released on September 20th, 2017.

[marc]

While filming the scene where the bullies are harassing and assaulting Ben on the Kissing Bridge, Nicholas Hamilton actually punched Jeremy Ray Taylor in the face during a take.

[maureen]

Film debut of Jackson Robert Scott. His only acting credit before this film was on TV, a one episode character on Criminal Minds (2015).

[stephanie]

The trailer for this film enraged real-life professional clowns, who stated that the Pennywise character will encourage people to think of clowns as scary and murderous (though the filmmakers and actors have said, clearly, that Pennywise is not a clown at all, but a representation of "It"'s pure evil, who takes on the form out of a mix of sadism and childishness). Rallies to defend the good name in general of clowns in the U.S. were planned following the month It (2017) was released in theaters.

[liam]

Director Andy Muschietti confirmed that Bill Skarsgård spoke in Swedish sometimes while in character as Pennywise.

[melinda]

The novel, "It" was originally published in September 1986. The film, It (2017) was released in September 2017. September is also the birth month of Stephen King, the author of the novel.

[ruby]

Wyatt Oleff, Bill Skarsgård, and Jack Dylan Grazer each starred in comic book films. Respectively, Oleff starred in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), Skarsgard starred in Deadpool 2 (2018), and Grazer starred in Shazam! (2019).

[lena]

Sophia Lillis says that she had to stand on a box in some scenes as, at only five feet tall, she is the shortest of the cast.

[leo]

It (alongside Randall Flagg) is regarded as the most evil and popular of Stephen King's villains, and an immense icon in horror. In 2006, Wizard Magazine ranked It as the 15th Greatest Villain of All Time.