Re: New Remake of Stephen King's book IT.
To be fair, the original TV film is, in my opinion, about as good an adaptation of his work as you could expect, at least at the level of production you were dealing with. 1990s TV movies -- even miniseries events -- still did not have the budgets of films or TV shows of the "Peak Television" era in which we find ourselves currently.
And, having read the book, once again, the man does NOT know how to write a damn ending. The final confrontation with IT in the book...doesn't make sense. Like, at all. The "Ritual of Chud" is this psychic battle where you stick your tongues out at each other so that they overlap, each bite down, and then (if memory serves) tell jokes or riddles until the other laughs. Whoever laughs or is stumped by a riddle loses.
Now, you tell me: how the hell are you gonna translate that into compelling cinematic drama?
And, of course, then there's the incredibly extended denouement that makes Return of the King's 18 endings seem brief by comparison.
King has similar issues with Needful Things and -- in his absolutely worst example -- The Stand, which involves a LITERAL Deus Ex Machina.
King does AMAZING world building and creates really compelling characters. He has an incredibly distinct voice as a writer. But he does not know how to write a f-ing ending.