The Stephen King reboot IT is killing the international box office at the moment, so what better time to reveal that one of scariest scenes didn’t even make the final cut.
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According to Bill Skarsgård, who plays Pennywise in the horrifying remake, there was one scene in which he filmed that was left on the cutting room floor. The revelation came through a recent episode of Variety’s Playback podcast in which Skarsgård was being interviewed and in which he hinted at a possible re-emergence of the scene in a sequel.
“There was a scene we shot that was a flashback from the 1600s, before Pennywise [was Pennywise],” he explained on an episode of Variety‘s Playback podcast. “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 back story for what It is, or where Pennywise came from.”
“That might be something worth exploring in the second one,” he said. “The idea is the ‘It’ entity was dormant for thousands and thousands of years. The [flashback] scene hints on that.”
Although a sequel hasn’t been officially confirmed, could the use of the unused scene be part of an Origin story the filmmakers want to explore? It would certainly make for an interesting story to see how or what made Pennywise evolve into the monster we are all so familiar with.
Skarsgård, in the podcast, didn’t confirm our theory for a sequel but he did go on to give his own thoughts as to where the future of IT may end up going.
“The book is very abstract and metaphysical about what it means to exist and the idea of fantasy and imagination and all of these things,” he said. “I think that could be cool to explore as well. It’s like, what is Pennywise? He only exists in the imagination of children. If you don’t believe him to be real then he might not be real. There’s an interesting aspect to explore there.”
Do you think IT needs a follow-up sequel? If so where would you like the story to explore next?
