The IT Directors Cut Will Include 15 Extra Minutes of Footage and Freddy Krueger Almost Showed Up!

As the feature film adaptation of Stephen King's IT continues to dominate the box office, some new details have surfaced from the directors cut of the film that will be released. The film already has a runtime of 2 hours and 15 minutes, but in a recent interview with Yahoo, director Andy Muschietti revealed that the extra footage being added to his cut will add 15 more minutes the film.

Muschietti opened up and shared some details on what some of the extra footage in the Directors Cut would entail saying:

“There’s a great scene, it’s a bit of a payoff of the Stanley Uris plot which is the bar mitzvah, where he delivers a speech against all expectations… it’s basically blaming all the adults of Derry (for the town’s history), and it has a great resolution.”

He went on to reveal that there is an extended version of the quarry scene:

“After the spitting contest it escalates into something that is completely weird and irrelevant to the scene but is so funny. Jack Grazer, who plays Eddie, does something that is completely bonkers.”

Both these scenes sound like they could be good, so I'm excited to see them play out in the Directors Cut of the film that will eventually be released.

In a separate interview with Ain’t It Cool News, the director says that at one point during the development of the film they had Freddy Krueger showing up to terrorize the kids. In the book, at one point, Pennywise takes the shape of the Wolfman, and instead of the Wolfman, it would have been Freddy. He said:

“We considered that for a bit, but I wasn’t too interested in bringing Freddy Krueger into the mix. I love the story and I love how Stephen King basically makes a portrait of childhood in the ’50s. He’s very genuine when he brings all the Universal Monsters to the repertoire of incarnation because that’s what kids were afraid of. It would be a natural path to try to recreate that in the ’80s, but I really wasn’t too crazy about bringing stuff like Freddy Krueger into the story. I thought it was a bit too meta with New Line involved in the film. It’s distracting and it didn’t feel right, for some reason.”

I understand why he didn't include it, but I think it still would have been cool to see. With the film being set in the 80s it would have made sense to see Pennywise take the shape of Freddy Krueger. Regardless, the movie was still awesome without the inclusion of Freddy, although I think it would have worked either way. 

Do you think he made the right call of not including Freddy, or would you have liked to have seen him in the movie?