Spoilers ahead for both the book and film.
In King’s work, after the Losers’ Club seemingly beat Pennywise, they become lost in the endless sewer tunnels.
As panic ensues, the group’s only female – Beverly – comes up with the idea to have sex with each of the males, and then they discover a way out of the maze.
It was intended to mark the young heroes’ transition from children to adolescents, but – for obvious reasons – the story beat is not in the film.
In an initial draft of the film, Beverly hugged all the boys to calm them down. Now, in the finished version, the beat has been left out altogether – and once Pennywise is defeated, the Losers’ Club find their way out relatively easily.
Writer Gary Dauberman told Entertainment Weekly: “Besides Georgie in the sewer, I think it’s the one scene that everybody kind of brings up and it’s such a shame.
“While it’s an important scene, it doesn’t define the book in any way I don’t think and it shouldn’t.
“We know what the intent was of that scene and why he put it in there, and we tried to accomplish what the intent was in a different way.”