With the new film “It” in theaters now, we asked John Campopiano — one of several filmmakers doing a documentary about the 1990 version of Stephen King’s “It” — to take us deep into the history of that TV miniseries. Here are five things we didn’t know.
Stephen King has said he decided to make his scary creature a clown because clowns scare children more than anything else. “They do have that kind of monstrous thing going for them,” he told Conan O’Brien.
Jonathan Brandis, who portrayed young Bill Denbrough in “It,” had worked on another Stephen King film adaptation the year prior.