BobtheInquisitor wrote:Is this just a retelling of the earlier half of the book? If not for the IP, I would guess this was some Blumhouse level mediocrity.
No. The 2017 film took place in 1988-89, instead of 1957-58 as the novel did. Therefore, this would have occurred in 1930-31 if they would have kept the dates used in the novel instead of the films.