If you've seen IT, you'll know that it ends with Bill Denbrough and The Losers Club managing to defeat Pennywise the Clown by making him realise that they're not afraid of him. The monster feeling fear of the attacking children is what drives him back to whatever depths he came from but it sounds like the movie originally featured a very different climactic battle between that monster and the group of kids.
Talking about that in a recent interview, actor Jaeden Lieberher (Bill Denbrough) reveals that an earlier iteration of the movie would have seen things get a lot more personal between Bill and Pennywise.
"I did have this scene where I climb up the tower at the end. When I’m chasing after Georgie, I climb the tower and I’m at a one-on-one confrontation with Pennywise and then I say that I’m not afraid of him, that none of the losers are afraid of him, and that’s how we beat him. But they took those lines and put [them] toward the end, right after our big fight. So I had this whole thing where Bill Skarsgard is grabbing me and pushing me off the ledge, and I had to wear this harness. That was a more difficult scene."
Bill and Pennywise still have a very tense confrontation in the movie when the clown offers the children the chance to go free if they leave the youngster with him. However, it sounds like that was the result of reshoots and that the place was at one point for the story to end with Stuttering Bill being solely responsible for Pennywise's defeat in a finale that would have clearly been a tad more action-packed.
Perhaps this ending would have been used if Warner Bros. had decided against moving forward with a sequel after seeing how the Stephen King adaptation had come together but it's fair to say that the kids coming together to temporarily beat their foe was probably a better ending. What do you guys think?
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