It Chapter Two
Short description
It Chapter Two continues the story of the Losers' Club, the group of friends from Derry, Maine, who as children defeated the shape-shifting entity known as Pennywise. Twenty-seven years later, the seven have grown up and scattered across the country, most of them having forgotten the horrors of their childhood. When Mike Hanlon, the only one who stayed behind, learns that the killings have resumed, he calls the others to remind them of the promise they made to return if It ever came back. Reunited as adults, they must recall their shared past and confront Pennywise once more.
Andy Muschietti directed the film, the second of the five features listed for him, following It (2017) and preceded by Mama (2013). Gary Dauberman and Jason Fuchs wrote the screenplay, and Roy Lee, Dan Lin and Bárbara Muschietti produced. The adult Losers are played by Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, Bill Hader, Isaiah Mustafa, Jay Ryan and James Ransone.
Released in September 2019, the film runs 169 minutes and cost about 79 million dollars, going on to take roughly 473 million worldwide. It holds a 6.5 rating on IMDb from around 352,000 votes and a 6.8 on TMDB from a much smaller base, while its critics' score sits at 6.1 from 380 reviews, below both audience measures.
What's left behind the scenes
- Isaiah Mustafa reread King's novel eight times before filming to better understand his character, Mike.
- On the side of the Native American artifact, Mike depicts a circle with one large dot and several small ones. This is a symbol of the Dark Tower. Stephen King's novels from the Dark Tower cycle are also mentioned in his other works – for example, 'It' (1986), 'The Shining' (1977), 'The Stand' (1978), and others. In the sixth book of the cycle, 'Song of Susannah' (2004), it is stated that It is one of the six greatest demons. It is opposed by Maturin the turtle, one of the guardians of the Beams that converge in the Dark Tower, and It tries to destroy the Beams.
- The role of Richie in this adaptation was written with actor Bill Hader in mind, but the screenwriters kept in mind that the role could go to someone else. When Hader officially joined the cast, the role was slightly “tailored” to him.
- According to screenwriter Gary Dauberman, the scene in which Bill meets the junk dealer and buys an old bicycle was written into the script as a joke. The junk dealer in the script is written as a man very similar to Stephen King. Eventually, the filmmakers persuaded King himself to play the role.
- The film broke the record for the amount of fake blood used in a horror film. There were 19,000 liters in just one scene.
- In the scene where a bicycle is purchased in the store, a license plate can be seen above the salesperson (Stephen King): a yellow sign with the text “CQB 241”. This is the number from the 1958 Plymouth Fury in the 1983 film “Christine”, which is a screen adaptation of King’s novel of the same name.
- Marlon Taylor, Jared Blancard, and Brandon Crane, who played Mike, Henry Bowers, and Ben as children in the film (Tommy Wallace, 1990), expressed a desire to reprise their roles, but only Crane ended up in the cast – and only in a cameo role as one of Ben’s architectural firm’s employees.
- The members of the so-called “Losers’ Club” had to shave their heads and raise the pitch of their voices for this film.
- As the main characters descend into the sewers towards Pennywise's lair, Eddie initially has a scratch on his right cheek, and a few seconds later it's on his left.
- When working on the first film, applying Bill Skarsgård's clown makeup took 5 hours each time; now it only took 2.5 hours.
- James McAvoy, who played Bill, was injured during the filming of the fight scene with the monster in the form of a clown.
- Initially, director Andrés Muschietti wanted to portray Mike as a drug addict, but he later abandoned this idea.
- Bill Skarsgård filmed the final confrontation scene wearing a motion capture suit.
- Both in the novel and in this film, Bill buys a bicycle as a child at a shop called “Secondhand Rose, Secondhand Clothes.” Shops with the same name also appear in other works by Stephen King, such as the novels “Insomnia” (1994) and “11/22/63” (2011).
- The trailer briefly shows a scene in which Beverly tries to escape from the house she lived in as a child, and Pennywise is shown in human form. This is the only instance in which Bill Skarsgård is shown without clown makeup.
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