It Chapter Two

It is the sequel to It (2017) and the second of a two-part adaptation of the 1986 novel It by Stephen King. The film stars Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, Bill Hader, Isaiah Mustafa, Jay Ryan, James Ransone, Andy Bean, and Bill Skarsgård as Pennywise.

Set 27 years after the events of the previous film, the story centers on the Losers Club and their relationships as they reunite to destroy It once and for all.

Talks for an It sequel began in February 2016. By September 2017, New Line Cinema announced that the film would be released in September 2019, with Dauberman writing the script and Muschietti to direct. On a $79 million budget, filming took place from June to November 2018 at Pinewood Toronto Studios, Oshawa, and Toronto.

It Chapter Two premiered at the Regency Village Theatre in Los Angeles on August 26, 2019, and was released in the United States on September 6 by Warner Bros. Pictures.

The film received mixed reviews from critics, who praised its performances (particularly that of Hader and Skarsgård), production design, and themes, but criticized its runtime, pacing and scares, which were unfavorably compared to its predecessor. Despite this, it was a box office success, grossing $473.1 million worldwide against a budget of $79 million.

Mike Hanlon, the only member of the Losers Club who remained in Derry, summons the other members, Bill Denbrough, Ben Hanscom, Beverly Marsh, Richie Tozier, Eddie Kaspbrak, and Stanley Uris. All of them return to Derry, except for Stanley, who commits suicide. Mike refreshes the Losers’ memories before

It itself reveals the news of Stanley’s suicide to them. Richie and Eddie decide to leave, until Beverly reveals that she has had visions of their deaths should they fail to fulfill their oath to kill It. Meanwhile, It lures and kills a young girl with a facial birthmark at a baseball game.

At the library, Mike shows Bill, via a drug-induced vision, that the Native American “Ritual of Chüd” can defeat It using items from the Losers’ past. Bill goes to the storm drain where Georgie was killed and recovers his paper sailboat. Beverly retrieves Ben’s love letter from her childhood home, before being attacked by It in the form of a demonic elderly woman.

Richie goes to an abandoned cinema where he collects a game token and encounters Pennywise, who confronts him on his hidden homosexuality. Ben returns to the town’s high school, while Eddie recovers an inhaler from a pharmacy and is attacked by the Leper.

Meanwhile, Henry Bowers is freed from a mental hospital by It. Bowers viciously attacks Eddie at the Losers’ hotel before driving to the library. There, Bowers attacks Mike before Richie impales him. At a carnival, Bill fails to save a young boy from It. Distraught, Bill travels to the Neibolt House, where the Losers convince him not to face It alone.

With their memories now fully restored, the group descends into a cavern beneath the sewers. Mike provides a rock from the Losers’ fight with the Bowers Gang, and they perform the ritual in the remains of the meteor that brought It to Earth.

The ritual fails as It emerges as an enormous Pennywise-spider hybrid and pressures Mike into revealing that the ritual killed the original native performers. It attacks the Losers and places Bill, Ben, and Beverly in individual hallucinations. They escape once Bill releases his guilt over being indirectly responsible for Georgie’s death and when Beverly realizes Ben was the one who wrote the love letter to her.

When Richie is made catatonic by It, Eddie saves him but is fatally impaled. A weakened Eddie then explains how he made It feel small earlier, by choking the Leper nearly to death.

The Losers confront It about how they have overcome their fears, and are no longer scared of the entity, causing It to shrink to a small weakened Pennywise. Mike rips out It’s heart, which he and the Losers crush with their bare hands, finally killing It.

They return to Eddie to find he has died from his injuries, and are forced to leave his body behind as It’s cavern implodes, destroying the Neibolt House.

At the water-logged quarry, the Losers comfort Richie, and Ben and Beverly kiss. Later, the scars on the Losers’ hands disappear. After the Losers part ways, Ben and Beverly get married, Richie returns to the kissing bridge where he had once carved his and Eddie’s initials, Mike moves out of Derry, and Bill begins writing his new story.

Mike reveals to Bill that Stanley had written the Losers letters prior to his suicide; Stanley was too scared to face It, and his suicide was intended to strengthen his friends against It. His last words in the letters indicate that they will always be Losers.