It Chapter Two is a 2019 American supernatural horror film and the sequel to the 2017 film It, both based on the 1986 novel It by Stephen King. The film is directed by Andy Muschietti and written by Gary Dauberman. Set in 2016, 27 years after the events depicted in the first film, it stars James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain, Bill Hader, Isaiah Mustafa, Jay Ryan, James Ransone, and Andy Bean as the adult versions of the Losers Club. Jaeden Martell, Sophia Lillis, Finn Wolfhard, Chosen Jacobs, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Jack Dylan Grazer, and Wyatt Oleff reprise their roles as the younger Losers, while Bill Skarsgård also returns as Pennywise the Dancing Clown.
Talks for an IT sequel began in February 2016. By September 2017, New Line Cinema announced the sequel would be released in September 2019, with Dauberman writing the script and Muschietti expected to direct. Principal photography began in June 2018, at Pinewood Toronto Studios and on locations in and around Port Hope, Oshawa, and Toronto, Ontario, and wrapped on October 31, 2018. The film was produced by New Line Cinema and Vertigo Entertainment.
It Chapter Two premiered at the Regency Village Theater in Los Angeles on August 26, 2019, and was theatrically released in the United States by Warner Bros. Pictures on September 6, 2019. Much like its predecessor, It Chapter Two received praise from critics for its acting (particularly Hader and Skarsgård), themes, and faithfulness to the novel, though criticism was aimed at its runtime and lack of scares compared to its predecessor
Cast
The Losers' Club
James McAvoy as Bill Denbrough:[4]
The stuttering yet resourcefully determined former leader of the Losers' Club who, out of revenge for the demise of his younger brother Georgie, fights his killer, Pennywise, during the summer of 1989. He promises that he and the other losers will return to Derry if It comes back. As an adult, Bill is a successful mystery novelist, and is married to a successful actress named Audra Phillips.
Jaeden Martell as young Bill Denbrough
Jessica Chastain as Beverly Marsh:
The only female member of the Losers' Club, who was abused physically and sexually by her father, was bullied at school over false rumors of promiscuity, and was Bill and Ben's love interest. As an adult, she has become a successful fashion designer in Chicago while enduring several abusive relationships that include her marriage to Tom Rogan.
Sophia Lillis as young Beverly Marsh
Jay Ryan as Ben Hanscom:[5]
A member of the Losers' Club who fought against It and was bullied as a child because of being overweight. As an adult, he is fit and a successful architect living in Nebraska.
Jeremy Ray Taylor as young Ben Hanscom
Bill Hader as Richie Tozier:[4]
Bill's bespectacled best friend and fellow member of the Losers' Club, whose loud mouth and foul language often get him into trouble. As an adult, Richie becomes a successful stand-up comic in Los Angeles, contrary to his occupation as a disc jockey from the novel.
Finn Wolfhard as young Richie Tozier
Isaiah Mustafa as Mike Hanlon:[6]
A member of the Losers' Club who fought against It. As an adult, Mike is the only one to stay behind in Derry and becomes the town librarian and summons the other Losers back to Derry when It resurfaces. Mike also has a serious substance abuse problem stemming from being traumatized by the events in his childhood.
Chosen Jacobs as young Mike Hanlon
James Ransone as Eddie Kaspbrak:[7]
A member of the Losers' Club who is the epitome of a hypochondriac, overly exaggerated by the immense number of objects in his medicine cabinet. As an adult, Eddie is a successful risk assessor living in New York City and is married to Myra, who is very similar to his Munchausen syndrome by proxy-stricken mother Sonia.
Jack Dylan Grazer as young Eddie Kaspbrak
Andy Bean as Stanley Uris:[7]
A member of the Losers' Club who fought against It. As an adult, Stan becomes a partner in a large Atlanta-based accounting firm and is married to Patty Blum, a teacher.
Wyatt Oleff as young Stanley Uris
Forms of It
Bill Skarsgård as Robert "Bob" Gray / Pennywise the Dancing Clown:
An ancient, trans-dimensional monster that awakens every twenty-seven years to feed on the fear of children that it murders. Pennywise the Dancing Clown is It's favorite and primary form. It was overpowered and seriously wounded by the Losers' Club in 1989, forcing it into early hibernation. This defeat motivates the being to rebuild its strength and exact revenge against the Losers' Club once they return to Derry.
Javier Botet as Hobo / The Witch:
Botet reprises his role from the first film as Hobo, a leper man who encountered a young Eddie at the 29 Neibolt Street house. Botet also portrays The Witch, another one of It's forms.
Jackson Robert Scott as Georgie Denbrough:
Bill's deceased younger brother. His arm was bitten off by Pennywise in October 1988, which culminated in the events of the summer of 1989.
Joan Gregson as Mrs. Kersh:
An apparently sweet and gentle elderly woman, but is actually an insidious monster, who lives in Beverly Marsh's childhood home.
Other characters
Teach Grant as Henry Bowers:[8]
A psychopath who terrorized the Losers' Club in the summer of 1989 before he was committed for murdering his father and two friends. As an adult he is a patient at an insane asylum before escaping to try to kill the Losers' Club.
Nicholas Hamilton as young Henry Bowers
Stephen Bogaert as Alvin Marsh:
Beverly's abusive father. He reprises his role from the first film.
Molly Atkinson as Sonia Kaspbrak / Myra:
Atkinson reprises her role as Sonia, Eddie's Munchausen syndrome by proxy-stricken mother, from the first film. Atkinson also portrays Myra, Eddie's obese and needy wife, who is very similar to his obese domineering mother.
Jess Weixler as Audra Denbrough (nee Phillips):[8]
A successful actress and Bill's wife.
Will Beinbrink as Tom Rogan:
Beverly's abusive husband.[9]
Xavier Dolan as Adrian Mellon:[9]
A young gay Derry citizen that is attacked with his boyfriend Don by a group of youths during a festival before being killed by It.
Taylor Frey as Don Hagarty:
Adrian's boyfriend who is also attacked by a group of youths during a festival. He also witnesses Adrian being killed by It.
Jake Weary as John "Webby" Garton:
One of the bullies who brutally attacked Adrian and Don.
Erik Junnola as Steve Dubay:
Webby's best friend and one of the bullies who brutally attacked Adrian and Don.
Connor Smith as Christopher Unwin:
A friend of Webby and Steve and one of the bullies who brutally attacked Adrian and Don.
Luke Roessler as Dean:
A young boy who meets Bill near the storm drain where Georgie was killed in 1988. He is later killed by It at the Funland.
Ryan Kiera Armstrong as Victoria Fuller:
A young girl killed by Pennywise after his awakening.
Katie Lunman as Betty Ripsom:
A missing girl who disappeared in the sewers of Derry in 1989.
Joe Bostick as Mr. Keene:
The town's pharmacist.
Juno Rinaldi as Gretta Keene:
Mr. Keene's daughter who bullied Beverly in childhood.
Megan Charpentier as young Gretta Keene
Owen Teague as Patrick Hockstetter:
Henry's deceased friend who was killed by Pennywise in the sewers in 1989.
Jake Sim as Belch Huggins:
Henry's deceased friend. Belch was murdered by Henry in 1989.
Logan Thompson as Vic Criss:
Henry's deceased friend. Vic, alongside Belch, was murdered by Henry in 1989.
Martha Girvin as Patty Uris (nee Blum):
Stanley's wife.
Additionally, Stephen King cameos as a pawn shop owner, the film's director Andy Muschietti cameos as a customer at the pharmacy, and director Peter Bogdanovich cameos the director of the film based on Bill's novel. Brandon Crane, who portrayed the young Ben in the miniseries adaptation, appears as a cameo. Maturin the Turtle was reported to be in the film early on,[10] however he was not included in the final film.
Production
Development
On February 16, 2016, producer Roy Lee, in an interview with Collider, mentioned a second film, remarking, "[Dauberman] wrote the most recent draft working with [Muschietti], so it's being envisioned as two movies".[11]
On July 19, 2017, Muschietti revealed that the plan is to get production underway for the sequel to It next spring, adding,[12][13] "We'll probably have a script for the second part in January [2018]. Ideally, we would start prep in March. Part one is only about the kids. Part two is about these characters 27 years later as adults, with flashbacks to 1989 when they were kids."[14][15]
On July 21, 2017, Muschietti spoke of looking forward to having a dialogue in the second film that does not exist within the first, stating, "... it seems like we're going to do it. It's the second half, it's not a sequel. It's the second half and it's very connected to the first one."[16][17] Muschietti confirmed that two cut scenes from the first film will hopefully be included in the second, one of which being the fire at the Black Spot from the book.[18]
On September 25, 2017, New Line Cinema announced that the sequel would be released on September 6, 2019,[19] with Gary Dauberman[20] and Jeffrey Jurgensen[21] writing the script. Andy Muschietti was also expected to return to direct the sequel.[22]
Casting
In an interview in July 2017, the child actors from the first film were asked which actors they would choose to play them in the sequel. Sophia Lillis chose Jessica Chastain and Finn Wolfhard chose Bill Hader,[23] both of whom would end up cast in those roles.
In September 2017, Muschietti and his sister mentioned that Chastain would be their top choice to play the adult version of Beverly Marsh.[24] In November 2017, Chastain herself expressed interest in the project.[25] Finally, in February 2018, Chastain officially joined the cast to portray the character,[26] making the film her second collaboration with Muschietti after Mama. By April 2018, Hader and James McAvoy were in talks to join the cast to play adult versions of Richie Tozier and Bill Denbrough respectively.[4] In May 2018, James Ransone, Andy Bean, and Jay Ryan joined the cast to portray adult versions of Eddie Kaspbrak, Stanley Uris, and Ben Hanscom respectively.[7][27][5]
In June 2018, Isaiah Mustafa joined the cast to portray the adult version of Mike Hanlon, while Xavier Dolan and Will Beinbrink were also cast as Adrian Mellon and Tom Rogan respectively.[6][9] Later, Teach Grant was cast to play the adult version of Henry Bowers, previously played by Nicholas Hamilton in the first film, and Jess Weixler also joined the film to play Bill's wife.[8] This also marks the second collaboration between McAvoy, Chastain, Hader, Weixler and Beinbrink after The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby. In September 2018, it was revealed that Javier Botet would appear in the film in an undisclosed role.[28]
Filming
Principal photography on the film began on June 19, 2018,[29] at Pinewood Toronto Studios and on locations in and around Port Hope,[30] Oshawa[31] and Toronto, Ontario, and wrapped on October 30, 2018.[32][33]
Post-production
The visual effects were provided by Atomic Arts and Method Studios, Supervised by Brooke Lyndon-Stanford, Justin Cornish, Josh Simmonds and Nicholas Brooks as the Production Supervisor with help from Cubica, Lola VFX, Make VFX, Rodeo FX and Soho VFX.[34] The young actors will be digitally de-aged to match their respective ages during filming of the first film.[35]
Talks for an IT sequel began in February 2016. By September 2017, New Line Cinema announced the sequel would be released in September 2019, with Dauberman writing the script and Muschietti expected to direct. Principal photography began in June 2018, at Pinewood Toronto Studios and on locations in and around Port Hope, Oshawa, and Toronto, Ontario, and wrapped on October 31, 2018. The film was produced by New Line Cinema and Vertigo Entertainment.
It Chapter Two premiered at the Regency Village Theater in Los Angeles on August 26, 2019, and was theatrically released in the United States by Warner Bros. Pictures on September 6, 2019. Much like its predecessor, It Chapter Two received praise from critics for its acting (particularly Hader and Skarsgård), themes, and faithfulness to the novel, though criticism was aimed at its runtime and lack of scares compared to its predecessor
Cast
The Losers' Club
James McAvoy as Bill Denbrough:[4]
The stuttering yet resourcefully determined former leader of the Losers' Club who, out of revenge for the demise of his younger brother Georgie, fights his killer, Pennywise, during the summer of 1989. He promises that he and the other losers will return to Derry if It comes back. As an adult, Bill is a successful mystery novelist, and is married to a successful actress named Audra Phillips.
Jaeden Martell as young Bill Denbrough
Jessica Chastain as Beverly Marsh:
The only female member of the Losers' Club, who was abused physically and sexually by her father, was bullied at school over false rumors of promiscuity, and was Bill and Ben's love interest. As an adult, she has become a successful fashion designer in Chicago while enduring several abusive relationships that include her marriage to Tom Rogan.
Sophia Lillis as young Beverly Marsh
Jay Ryan as Ben Hanscom:[5]
A member of the Losers' Club who fought against It and was bullied as a child because of being overweight. As an adult, he is fit and a successful architect living in Nebraska.
Jeremy Ray Taylor as young Ben Hanscom
Bill Hader as Richie Tozier:[4]
Bill's bespectacled best friend and fellow member of the Losers' Club, whose loud mouth and foul language often get him into trouble. As an adult, Richie becomes a successful stand-up comic in Los Angeles, contrary to his occupation as a disc jockey from the novel.
Finn Wolfhard as young Richie Tozier
Isaiah Mustafa as Mike Hanlon:[6]
A member of the Losers' Club who fought against It. As an adult, Mike is the only one to stay behind in Derry and becomes the town librarian and summons the other Losers back to Derry when It resurfaces. Mike also has a serious substance abuse problem stemming from being traumatized by the events in his childhood.
Chosen Jacobs as young Mike Hanlon
James Ransone as Eddie Kaspbrak:[7]
A member of the Losers' Club who is the epitome of a hypochondriac, overly exaggerated by the immense number of objects in his medicine cabinet. As an adult, Eddie is a successful risk assessor living in New York City and is married to Myra, who is very similar to his Munchausen syndrome by proxy-stricken mother Sonia.
Jack Dylan Grazer as young Eddie Kaspbrak
Andy Bean as Stanley Uris:[7]
A member of the Losers' Club who fought against It. As an adult, Stan becomes a partner in a large Atlanta-based accounting firm and is married to Patty Blum, a teacher.
Wyatt Oleff as young Stanley Uris
Forms of It
Bill Skarsgård as Robert "Bob" Gray / Pennywise the Dancing Clown:
An ancient, trans-dimensional monster that awakens every twenty-seven years to feed on the fear of children that it murders. Pennywise the Dancing Clown is It's favorite and primary form. It was overpowered and seriously wounded by the Losers' Club in 1989, forcing it into early hibernation. This defeat motivates the being to rebuild its strength and exact revenge against the Losers' Club once they return to Derry.
Javier Botet as Hobo / The Witch:
Botet reprises his role from the first film as Hobo, a leper man who encountered a young Eddie at the 29 Neibolt Street house. Botet also portrays The Witch, another one of It's forms.
Jackson Robert Scott as Georgie Denbrough:
Bill's deceased younger brother. His arm was bitten off by Pennywise in October 1988, which culminated in the events of the summer of 1989.
Joan Gregson as Mrs. Kersh:
An apparently sweet and gentle elderly woman, but is actually an insidious monster, who lives in Beverly Marsh's childhood home.
Other characters
Teach Grant as Henry Bowers:[8]
A psychopath who terrorized the Losers' Club in the summer of 1989 before he was committed for murdering his father and two friends. As an adult he is a patient at an insane asylum before escaping to try to kill the Losers' Club.
Nicholas Hamilton as young Henry Bowers
Stephen Bogaert as Alvin Marsh:
Beverly's abusive father. He reprises his role from the first film.
Molly Atkinson as Sonia Kaspbrak / Myra:
Atkinson reprises her role as Sonia, Eddie's Munchausen syndrome by proxy-stricken mother, from the first film. Atkinson also portrays Myra, Eddie's obese and needy wife, who is very similar to his obese domineering mother.
Jess Weixler as Audra Denbrough (nee Phillips):[8]
A successful actress and Bill's wife.
Will Beinbrink as Tom Rogan:
Beverly's abusive husband.[9]
Xavier Dolan as Adrian Mellon:[9]
A young gay Derry citizen that is attacked with his boyfriend Don by a group of youths during a festival before being killed by It.
Taylor Frey as Don Hagarty:
Adrian's boyfriend who is also attacked by a group of youths during a festival. He also witnesses Adrian being killed by It.
Jake Weary as John "Webby" Garton:
One of the bullies who brutally attacked Adrian and Don.
Erik Junnola as Steve Dubay:
Webby's best friend and one of the bullies who brutally attacked Adrian and Don.
Connor Smith as Christopher Unwin:
A friend of Webby and Steve and one of the bullies who brutally attacked Adrian and Don.
Luke Roessler as Dean:
A young boy who meets Bill near the storm drain where Georgie was killed in 1988. He is later killed by It at the Funland.
Ryan Kiera Armstrong as Victoria Fuller:
A young girl killed by Pennywise after his awakening.
Katie Lunman as Betty Ripsom:
A missing girl who disappeared in the sewers of Derry in 1989.
Joe Bostick as Mr. Keene:
The town's pharmacist.
Juno Rinaldi as Gretta Keene:
Mr. Keene's daughter who bullied Beverly in childhood.
Megan Charpentier as young Gretta Keene
Owen Teague as Patrick Hockstetter:
Henry's deceased friend who was killed by Pennywise in the sewers in 1989.
Jake Sim as Belch Huggins:
Henry's deceased friend. Belch was murdered by Henry in 1989.
Logan Thompson as Vic Criss:
Henry's deceased friend. Vic, alongside Belch, was murdered by Henry in 1989.
Martha Girvin as Patty Uris (nee Blum):
Stanley's wife.
Additionally, Stephen King cameos as a pawn shop owner, the film's director Andy Muschietti cameos as a customer at the pharmacy, and director Peter Bogdanovich cameos the director of the film based on Bill's novel. Brandon Crane, who portrayed the young Ben in the miniseries adaptation, appears as a cameo. Maturin the Turtle was reported to be in the film early on,[10] however he was not included in the final film.
Production
Development
On February 16, 2016, producer Roy Lee, in an interview with Collider, mentioned a second film, remarking, "[Dauberman] wrote the most recent draft working with [Muschietti], so it's being envisioned as two movies".[11]
On July 19, 2017, Muschietti revealed that the plan is to get production underway for the sequel to It next spring, adding,[12][13] "We'll probably have a script for the second part in January [2018]. Ideally, we would start prep in March. Part one is only about the kids. Part two is about these characters 27 years later as adults, with flashbacks to 1989 when they were kids."[14][15]
On July 21, 2017, Muschietti spoke of looking forward to having a dialogue in the second film that does not exist within the first, stating, "... it seems like we're going to do it. It's the second half, it's not a sequel. It's the second half and it's very connected to the first one."[16][17] Muschietti confirmed that two cut scenes from the first film will hopefully be included in the second, one of which being the fire at the Black Spot from the book.[18]
On September 25, 2017, New Line Cinema announced that the sequel would be released on September 6, 2019,[19] with Gary Dauberman[20] and Jeffrey Jurgensen[21] writing the script. Andy Muschietti was also expected to return to direct the sequel.[22]
Casting
In an interview in July 2017, the child actors from the first film were asked which actors they would choose to play them in the sequel. Sophia Lillis chose Jessica Chastain and Finn Wolfhard chose Bill Hader,[23] both of whom would end up cast in those roles.
In September 2017, Muschietti and his sister mentioned that Chastain would be their top choice to play the adult version of Beverly Marsh.[24] In November 2017, Chastain herself expressed interest in the project.[25] Finally, in February 2018, Chastain officially joined the cast to portray the character,[26] making the film her second collaboration with Muschietti after Mama. By April 2018, Hader and James McAvoy were in talks to join the cast to play adult versions of Richie Tozier and Bill Denbrough respectively.[4] In May 2018, James Ransone, Andy Bean, and Jay Ryan joined the cast to portray adult versions of Eddie Kaspbrak, Stanley Uris, and Ben Hanscom respectively.[7][27][5]
In June 2018, Isaiah Mustafa joined the cast to portray the adult version of Mike Hanlon, while Xavier Dolan and Will Beinbrink were also cast as Adrian Mellon and Tom Rogan respectively.[6][9] Later, Teach Grant was cast to play the adult version of Henry Bowers, previously played by Nicholas Hamilton in the first film, and Jess Weixler also joined the film to play Bill's wife.[8] This also marks the second collaboration between McAvoy, Chastain, Hader, Weixler and Beinbrink after The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby. In September 2018, it was revealed that Javier Botet would appear in the film in an undisclosed role.[28]
Filming
Principal photography on the film began on June 19, 2018,[29] at Pinewood Toronto Studios and on locations in and around Port Hope,[30] Oshawa[31] and Toronto, Ontario, and wrapped on October 30, 2018.[32][33]
Post-production
The visual effects were provided by Atomic Arts and Method Studios, Supervised by Brooke Lyndon-Stanford, Justin Cornish, Josh Simmonds and Nicholas Brooks as the Production Supervisor with help from Cubica, Lola VFX, Make VFX, Rodeo FX and Soho VFX.[34] The young actors will be digitally de-aged to match their respective ages during filming of the first film.[35]
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