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Stephen King’s Pennywise Prequel Can Avoid A Major IT Problem
While Welcome to Derry’s exploration of Pennywise’s backstory could run into story problems, the prequel to Stephen King’s IT does have an opportunity to fill in one frustrating plot hole from the source movies. Released in 2017, IT was a blockbuster success and a hit with critics to boot. An adaptation of Stephen King’s infamously ambitious, timeline-hopping bestseller of the same name, IT wisely opted to split the novel’s potentially confusing story into two distinct time periods and focus on the young characters for the first movie.