Instead of a dual narrative, the first film is solely an adaptation of the section that features the characters as children, though the setting has been updated to the late 1980s. It stars Bill Skarsgård as Pennywise and Jaeden Martell as Bill Denbrough.

What year does the it movie take place?

In the summer of 1989, a group of bullied kids band together to destroy a shape-shifting monster, which disguises itself as a clown and preys on the children of Derry, their small Maine town...

Where does the it take place?

The story is based in the year 1978 and tracks the story of a group of friends who try to take care of Pennywise, a shapeshifting monster that harms children in their small town, Derry in Maine.