


"We were wondering why a few of them were trying to eat us," explains Dylan over the phone from Canada. That doesn't even include the extra rats Dylan found in the cages one day after they finished filming at a "creepy" old farmhouse in Langley, Virginia. Woodley, who has worked on films like The A-Team, X-Men 2, and Freddy Got Fingered, knew the project was going to require something more ambitious: They ended up using 200 rats. When director Zak Hilditch first met with Woodley, a third-generation animal trainer based out of Vancouver, Canada, the filmmaker thought they might be able to make do with about 50 rats.

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There are so many rats in the movie that the film's veteran animal trainer Steve Woodley and his 24-year-old son Dylan, who also works in the family business, often had their hands full. Rats on rats on rats on rats, crawling and scurrying and serving as a furry symbol for the guilty conscience of Wilfred James ( The Punisher's Thomas Jane) after he murders his wife ( Deadwood's Molly Parker). The big screen adaptation of Stephen King 's It might have the more famous villain, but there's one thing Netflix's new King film 1922, based on a novella of the same name from the author's 2010 collection Full Dark, No Stars, has on its blockbuster rival: way more rats.
