It goes down a storm drain, where Georgie encounters Pennywise The Dancing Clown. In Derry, Maine, 1960, Georgie Denbrough plays in the streets with a paper sailboat made by his stuttering big brother Bill. For his work on the miniseries, Richard Bellis received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music Composition for a miniseries or a Special Dramatic Underscore. Critics praised Tim Curry's performance as Pennywise. It aired on ABC over 2 nights on November 18th and 20th 1990, attracting 30 million viewers in it's premiere. Production on IT began in early 1990, and the miniseries was filmed over a period of 3 months in New Westminster, British Columbia in mid-1990. Lawrence's script condensed the source work into a 2-part, 3-hour miniseries that retained the core elements of the novel, but Lawrence was forced to abandon numerous subplots by virtue of the novel's length and the network's times-lot restrictions. Originally planning a 4-part and 8-hour series, ABC enlisted writer Lawrence D. Turner, Tony Dakota, Michael Ryan, Tom Heaton and Chelan Simmons also played supporting roles. Michael Cole, Jarred Blancard, Gabe Khouth, Chris Eastman, Olivia Hussey, Frank C. The child counterparts of the Losers that appear in part one are played by Jonathan Brandis, Seth Green, Emily Perkins, Brandon Crane, Adam Faraizl, Marlon Taylor and Ben Heller. IT features an ensemble cast, starring Richard Thomas, John Ritter, Annette O'Toole, Harry Anderson, Dennis Christopher, Tim Reid and Richard Masur as the 7 members of The Losers Club, and Tim Curry as Pennywise. The miniseries takes place over 2 different time periods, the first when the Losers first confront Pennywise as children in 1960, and the second when they return as adults in 1990 to defeat him a second time after he resurfaces. The protagonists are The Losers Club, a group of outcast kids who discover Pennywise and vow to destroy him by any means necessary. IT mostly takes the human form of a sadistic, wisecracking clown called 'Pennywise'. The story revolves around a predatory shapeshifter which has the ability to transform itself into it's prey's worst fears, allowing it to exploit the phobias of it's victims.

It is the first of 2 adaptations of the novel, the second being the 2017 film and the third being it's 2019 sequel.

Cohen from the Stephen King's novel of the same name. $12 million IT also known as Stephen KingвЂ™s IT is an 1990 American supernatural horror drama miniseries directed by Tommy Lee Wallace and adapted by Lawrence D.

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