Missing poster update! Promo mistakes? Details 6!-
So I absolutely went nuts when seeing this promo package someone had received on Instagram considering it allowed us to see the missing posters we don’t see clearly (Vance, Billy , Griffen) however there’s some… discrepancies with the movie itself and what we know. But also stuff I really like so let’s jump in
New dates!
So these missing posters go so far to have had some of the boys missing since 76! Which at first was a bit of a shock to me but makes a little sense. It also notes that My headcannon of Griffin being the youngest/ 12 years old as correct! BUT it says he went missing in April of 76’ but Gwen said - at least I could’ve sworn she said “last winter” but I know for sure Vance was “last spring”
These posters might be from before they were finalized for the movie because both Robin and Bruce have the wrong dates! Neither of them went missing In 76, they both went missing in 78! It also has the mistake of the newspaper trying to say Bruce was taken before Vance when it’s straight up wrong? Vance was “last spring” and Bruce went missing July of 78.
This is Robin and Bruce’s posters IN MOVIE:
All Info lines up except the dates they went missing. I’m assuming that earlier drafts of the movie would’ve been in 77? This is my best guess considering these are the ones in the movie. Maybe Vance was the last in a earlier draft of the movie?
These two I believe completely, as we get a shot of Billy’s in the opening and it lines up and Vance also lines up apart from it being in September and not spring. (Lines up with Max’s notes. Taken on a Monday etc)
Only thing I don’t agree with is Vance being 13. I’m more inclined to believe he is 14 as he was cannonically held back twice. UNLESS he’s actually a grade below the other boys because of this? So he’s in 7th grade instead of 8th? Idk I think he’s 14. It also says he has brown eyes so I’ll take everything with a grain of salt lmao
New timeline-
Personally I like the idea of it being ? Slightly more spread out. besides some of the dates being straight up wrong in this promomaterial it DOES make a lot more sense for there to be greater stretches of time.
Griffin- Late summer 1976 (don’t like poster date/feels wrong)
Billy- Fall- winter 1976 (poster date also feels wrong)
Vance- Spring 1977 (stated by Gwen)
Bruce- July 18th, 1978 (seen in movie)
Robin- November 9th , 1978 (seen in movie)
Adresses?
So I didn’t know that missing posters (at least used to. I’ve only seen one in reality and it was a kid who’s been missing since like 1987? So a really really old case) contained the kids address? At least these ones and what I’m assuming to be. The adresses that are across the top before the rest of the information. As it later states “last seen” and vauge locations, so fake the  Address info as you will writers.
The constant date mix up’s are giving me “Finney Shaw”* vibes. Where it’s wrong and no one knows how it got that way.
*Literally every info talking about the movie says Finney’s last name is Shaw but it never was. It is Blake. In the short story his last name is Finney so Shaw literally came out of nowhere.
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Even more confused
On Max’s white board the photos used for Vance are straight up just his actor. Not the right hair cut and not even attempted to look in the time period apart from being black and white. YET these two missing posters in the opening have the right images?
It also makes me want his poster more? (Along with Billy and Griffins. We get flashes in the intro but never non blurry and focused.)
I’ve also decoded one of Vance’s notecards reading “used(?) to be a violent kid”
The other one I can only get 5’7
It’s also wrong as by all accounts he is the third victim not forth. Stated by Gwen earlier in the movie and the date Bruce was taken.
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