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Both the 2017ITmovie and the 1990 miniseries version featured slap-up performances from Seth Green and Finn Wolfhard as Richie Tozier - here ’s how the two versions of the eccentric comparability . Stephen King’sITnovel was published in 1986 and is famously one of the writer ’s lumpy tale , coming in at over 1,100 pages in length . The book follows the engagement of the self - exclaim Losers ' Club , a radical of seven outcast kids who occur together to fight down an evil creature in their home townsfolk that usually takes the form of a clown called Pennywise .
When this monster re - emerges decades later , the group reunite as adults to kill it for good . George A. Romero ( Night Of The Living Dead ) was originally localize to direct the ABC version ofITwhich was intend to be a ten - part modified serial . Romero finally left over creative difference and went on to direct King movieThe Dark Halfinstead . Tommy Lee Wallace ( Halloween III : Season Of The Witch ) occupy over the projection , with the miniseries being reduce to a two - parter instead . Tim Curry won plaudits for his terrific execution as Pennywise the Dancing Clown , and the show boast some memorably creepy succession .
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Other cast members from the 1990ITminiseries included John Ritter , Richard Thomas and Seth Green ( Austin Powers).ITwas an early role for Green , who was cast as young Richie Tozier , the comic of the group . Just like the Word of God , Green ’s Richie is hyperactive and always seek tending , in summation to cracking silly joke . The miniseries had to tone down his famous use of foul language , however , and while Green ’s Richie does his best to mask his reverence of Pennywise from the others , he feel it just as powerfully . TheITminiseriesalso shows him to be terrify of werewolves .
Finn Wolfhard ’s take on Richie in the 2017ITmovie leans a little unaired to the source stuff , and he lets loose with the swear word constantly . The movie version of Richie is terrify of clowns , with Pennywise later luring him into a room filled with buffoon statues . Like the novel , both versions of Richie wear down thick glasses but while the book suggests he may have
Tourette ’s syndrome , theITminiseries and movie note down this component of the character .
Both Green and Wolfhard ’s Richie serve as important comic relief in both version , and the young performers do very well conveying Tozier ’s barely oppress fear . Green would after congratulate Wolfhard ’s execution and the 2017ITmovie itself and while both adaptations have their metier and weaknesses , Seth Green and Finn Wolfhard both did a great job bringing Richie Tozier to life in their own singular path .
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