It marked some kind of milestone when the lights went out and an audible gasp spread across thousands of people. For the first time in San Diego Comic-Con history, new exclusive footage shared with the excited and hopeful in Hall H was being obscured. The screen literally went dark . This was not done to hide some juicy plot details from Comic-Conners either. After all, the scene they were watching is based on a book sequence Stephen King published nearly 50 years ago. Nor was this meant to conceal unfinished special effects— SDCC fans pride themselves on getting to observe works in progress.

No, the sequence in question was very much finished, and could even still be heard as a young boy played by Roman Griffin Davis (the sweet lad from Jojo Rabbit ) was dragged from the center

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