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LIST OF MAJOR EDITS

What follows is a list of all the major, noticable edits in the film. Every frame was tweaked or updated in some way.

• New opening credits.
• Many new musical cues and sound effects throughout.
• Colour-graded the entire film.
• Cropped to 16:9 (and lovingly pan-and-scanned throughout)
• Removed Mike Hanlon’s voiceover wherever it occurs.
• New establishing plates for all cities outside Derry.
• Bill & Audra’s establishing scene is shortened.
• “Georgie & Pennywise” tightened up.
• Ben’s awkward dialog with his date is removed.
• Ben’s first encounter with IT tightened.
• Bev & Tom meeting the Japanese businessmen removed.
• Bev’s “Call” removed.
• Tom’s endless search for champagne is VERY tightened.
• Moved Eddie’s ‘revelation’ from Mr. Keene to immediately after his adult character is established. This makes the payoff later more satisfying.
• Theater (I Was A Teenage Werewolf) scene tightened.
• Removed awkward “men or mice” line.
• Eddie’s shower scene re-cut to heighten tension, add franticness, and hide poor visual effects.
• Removed Eddie’s chauffeur from the train scene. I mean… ugh.
• Adult Richie’s establishing shot scaled WAY back because it adds nothing.
• Removed Richie’s entire conversation with his agent. It was awful.
• Werewolf scene re-paced.
• Removed intervention of shop owner from the Hanlon/Bowers scene. Doesn’t make sense that he would step in when it is later established that adults don’t get involved.
• Rock fight scene got new foley, and dialog cuts.
• The daylight-is-fading-and-we-need-to-get-this-in-one-shot super-pan of the now complete Loser’s Club changed to standard cuts.
• Bill’s “Help Me” speech now 40% more inspirational!
• Adult Stan’s “sex maniac” dialog and lingering shots of Perfect Strangers is cut.
• Stan’s Mummy encounter added during the phone call with Mike.
• Vic Criss’ encounter with the Deadlights tightened
• Deadlights have a custom lighting effect
• Henry whitehair is cut
• Eddie’s “Battery Acid” is re-timed to make his intervention for Stan seem more “last-minute”
• The “Drain Incident” has been quick-cut to mask the poor effects somewhat without losing the sense of place or understanding what is happening.
• “Stan Found” has been recut for gradual discovery and to remove the total lack of blood in the opening shot.
  “Audra/Greco” moved to right after “Stan Found”, but Greco is removed completely, it doesn’t set up or pay off anything, so it’s cut.
• The various “[Character] Arrives in Derry” scenes have been reordered.
• The “Bill & Mike Ride Silver” montage was cut because, honestly, it feels like filler.
• “Ben Helps Fellow Fat Kid” is cut because it was too convenient, and the new fat kid cannot act. At all.
• “Bev Returns Home”: removed close-up of “MARSH” doorbell plate, because it was too obvious. Now it’s more subtle, more of a detail that will reward repeat viewings.
• “Bev Returns Home”: removed the “You’re not real!” exchange by the closed door, makes it feel more like an escape and less like IT just allowed Bev to leave.
• Re-ordered the Library scene between Richie and Pennywise
• Trimmed down the “Dinner Montage” at the Chinese restaurant.
• Removed the image of Pennywise superimposed on the moon during “Wake Up, Henry”. It is still implied that he sees Pennywise in the moon, but not shown directly.
• Trimmed the “Fortune Cookie” sequence to tighten it up a bit and mask some of the lesser effects.
• Cut A LOT of Harry Anderson’s CLEARLY improvised comedy during the “Calling Stan” sequence.
• Re-cut Bill’s re-telling of Stan’s “Mummy Encounter” so we ONLY see flashbacks of things that Bill witnessed firsthand.
• Trimmed the part where Mike slams the prop fridge and it pops back open momentarily. That has bugged me since the 90s.
• Trimmed the Clown Dog from “Henry Escapes” and leaves the how nebulous, but implies that he used the switchblade given to him by It-as-Belch.
• Removed some of the hokey dialog from “Ben and Bev Kiss”, but because of the single tracking shot (there are a LOT of those in this miniseries) I couldn’t really do much with the “Why is it so mean?” mini-monologue.
• Bill’s “I don’t want to be scared anymore” speech is now 30% more inspirational!
• Re-cut the “Pennywise in the vines” monologue to hide the superimposed pennywise. We still see the Losers Club looking at a singular location, but what they actually see is not shown to the viewer.
• HEAVILY re-cut the final fight with IT in its spider form. Removed almost all wide shots of the spider. Removed MOST of the close-ups. Basically tried to show as little of it as possible. While I think the practical spider looks pretty good, I think it’s better to be less explicit, and allow each viewer to fill in the blanks on their own. Let the creature be more personal that way.
• The film now ends with the remaining Losers Club members standing outside the cave. No closure, or happy ending. They survive. That’s all.
• Custom end credits (expanded from original, using IMDB to credit many more folks who went unrecognized in the original miniseries).