Apparently he accidentally made some children on set cry. I think it was while filming the scene where he appears on a TV surrounded by the dead kids chanting “Kill them all! Kill them all! “

See my reply to the original comment. The miniseries was awful and a complete middle finger to the novel and its fans. I don’t know anyone who read the novel who liked the miniseries. It was basically a poorly acted, family-friendly pale imitation of the original story.

Oh please. Stop looking at it with nostalgia goggles. I say that as someone who saw it when it originally aired. Curry did a good job as Pennywise (except for the hammy bits), but the miniseries was a typically limp, bland network TV turkey that in no way captured the spirit of novel. The series and actors apart from…

Actually the movie is said to have a “Stand By Me” feel to it.