This Slate Spoiler Special is meant to be played after you see the movie being discussed.

Hello, this is Dana Stevens, Slate's movie critic, and I'm here with a Slate Spoiler Special podcast on It, the new Stephen King adaptation directed by Andy Muskeetti, and starring a whole host of talented teen Thespians.

So joining me in the Slate studio to Talk It are Aisha Harris.

Aisha is a culture writer at Slate and the host of the Great Slate Podcast represent.

Hi, Aisha.

Hey, I'm glad this is back.

Yeah, me too.

And I'm glad you guys are here for it.

I'm actually really happy about the reinstatement of the spoilers.

It's one of my favorite slate things to do. And I'm joined by Sam Adams, who is the editor of Slate's culture blog, Brabitt.

Hello.

Hey, Sam.

So I'm going to go over quickly with you guys what your qualifications is a strong word, but what your interest was and coming in for this It spoiler.

So I just want to know about your history with this property It, which was a 1986 novel by

Stephen King.

It was one of its most successful novels, I think, and very long. It's like an 1,100-page

tom, which has already been adapted once as a TV miniseries with Tim Curry as It, who will get into

who it is in the 90s. So what is your background with It, and why did you want to come in and talk about

this new version? I went through a pretty big Stephen King phase, I guess, probably mostly in high school and on

into college, which would be when I read It along with a lot of other things. And it definitely

made it a big impression on me, perhaps an 1,100 page impression or so. I mean, I think it was

before I'd gotten to the stand,

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