Andy Muschietti Continues To Change the Hanlon Family in ‘Welcome to Derry'

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Andy Muschietti began his time in Derry, Maine, by making changes to the original story he was adapting: Stephen King’s IT . First and foremost, he shifted the timeline of the story from the late 1950s and mid-1980s to the late 1980s and 2010s. That’s a big change! The novel very specifically deals with the racial prejudices present in the 1950s and the consumerism and social changes (limited as they may have been) of the 80s. But this is an adaptation after all. Changes must occur, and plenty have started to emerge in the new show, Welcome to Derry .

If anything, I appreciate how willing Muschietti was to make his IT films different from the nov

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