Horror film It has been called one of the scariest films of the year, but it's recently been revealed it was almost a lot more intense.
The original script reportedly contained a scene where Pennywise the Clown eats a baby; a scene so disturbing, even producers couldn't stomach it.
Veep actor Timothy Simons, who tried out for the part of Pennywise, explained on a Throwing Shade podcast that in his audition he read a scene in which Pennywise eats a baby.
He told the podcast; "It was [Pennywise] way back at the beginning of Derry convincing the woman to give him her baby to eat. And it was scary. The thing that was scariest about it was that it was very direct. It was, 'If you don't do this, these are the things that I'm going to do.' And they were all terrible".
A Reddit post containing a section of what is supposedly the leaked script, seems to back up these claims. The script reads:
"She's shaking, doesn't want to let go. Behind her, the Door OPENS. A Little Boy, 6, asks, 'Mama?' ABIGAIL, 'NO! OUT! NOW!' Frightened by his mother, the Boy runs. Abigail turns back to Pennywise. Wherever he may be now in the room. The light somehow seems to spin faster now. She kisses her baby and sets it down. It BAWLS. ABIGAIL, 'I'm sorry, I'm so sorry.."She turns away from the baby. Faces those dying embers. We keep on her face as they seem to begin GLOWING BRIGHTER AS, OVER HER SHOULDER, OUT OF FOCUS...Pennywise crawls over to the Baby and starts to feast. SHARP CRY FROM THE BABY CUT OFF as we hear a CRUNCH. Abigail continues to look into the BRIGHT ORANGE GLOW of not the flickering fire...But the DEADLIGHTS. Her expression changing. Fear. Denial. Grief. Acceptance. And then nothing. Just a glazed look."
Bill Skarsgard told Variety earlier this year the original cut contained a flashback to the character's origins in the 1600s.
"There was a scene we shot that was a flashback from the 1600s, before Pennywise [was Pennywise]," he told the magazine.
"The scene turned out really, really disturbing. And I'm not the clown. I look more like myself. It's very disturbing, and sort of a backstory for what IT is, or where Pennywise came from."
As rumours swirl that the horror film's sequel is meant to contain more flashbacks to Pennywise the Clown's past, it remains a possibility that the scene might make it into It 2.
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