It: Chapter Two (2019) follows the adult Losers Club, who return to Derry, Maine, 27 years after their first encounter with Pennywise to fulfill their childhood promise to destroy the shape-shifting entity. Tormented by the return of their trauma, they must confront their deepest fears to overcome the more powerful Pennywise and end his cycle of violence, leading to a final battle.
It Chapter Two
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Andy Muschietti
Screenplay by Gary Dauberman
Based on It
byStephen King
Produced by
Barbara Muschietti
Dan Lin
Roy Lee
Starring
James McAvoy
Jessica Chastain
Bill Hader
James Ransone
Jay Ryan
Isaiah Mustafa
Andy Bean
Bill Skarsgård
It Chapter Two
It Chapter Two is a 2019
American supernatural horror film directed
byAndy Muschiettifrom a screenplay byGary
Dauberman. It is the sequel to It (2017) and
the second of a two-part adaptation of the 1986
novelItbyStephen King. The film starsJames
McAvoy, Jessica Chastain, Bill Hader, Isaiah
Mustafa, Jay Ryan, James Ransone, Andy
Bean, and Bill Skarsgård as Pennywise the
Dancing Clown. Set 27 years after the events of
the first film, the story centers on the Losers
Club and their relationships as they reunite to
destroy It once and for all.
Talks for anItsequel 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,Toronto, andPort Hope.
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. The film received mixed reviews
from critics and grossed $473.1 million
worldwide. Aprequeltelevision series, titledIt:
Welcome to Derry, premiered on HBO on
October 26, 2025, with Skarsgård reprising his
role as Pennywise.
In 2016, twenty-seven years after It's initial
defeat,
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Pennywise the Dancing
Clown returns to Derry, Maine, killing a man
Plot
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Cinematography Checco Varese
Edited by Jason Ballantine
Music by Benjamin Wallfisch
Production
companies
New Line Cinema
Double Dream
Vertigo Entertainment
Rideback
Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures
Release dates
August26,2019(Regency
Village Theatre)
September6,2019(United
States)
Running time
169 minutes
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Country United States
Language English
Budget $79million
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Box office $473.1million
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named Adrian Mellon after he and his
boyfriend are brutally assaulted
byhomophobicteens.
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 kills himself.
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 kills a little girl named
Victoria at a baseball game and helps Henry
Bowers, who was arrested for the murder of his
father, escape from a mental institution.
At the library, Mike shows Bill, via a drug-
induced vision, that the Native
American "Ritual of Chüd" can defeat It using artifacts from the Losers' past; Bill
recovers Georgie's paper sailboat and meets a young boy, Dean, whom he warns to leave
Derry. Beverly retrieves Ben's love poem 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, choosing to use an old
yearbook page signed by Beverly as his artifact, while Eddie recovers an inhaler from a
pharmacy and is attacked by the Leper.
Returning to the hotel, Richie abandons the group, while Bill leaves for the town carnival and
fails to save Dean from Pennywise. Bowers viciously attacks Eddie at the hotel before driving
to the library. There, Bowers attacks Mike before Richie returns and impales him, killing
him. The Losers then travel to the Neibolt house where they convince Bill, distraught over his
failure to save Dean, 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 using the artifacts 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
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Bill, Ben, and Beverly in individual hallucinations. They escape once Bill releases his guilt
over being indirectly responsible for Georgie's death and Beverly realizes again that 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 proceed to
psychologically antagonize the entity, causing Pennywise to lose his own confidence and
physical superiority over them, and thus begin to cease to exist. In an attempt to save itself, It
cycles throughout its many forms before eventually mutating into a crying, baby-like
Pennywise. Mike attacks It, pulling out It's heart, which he and the Losers crush with their
bare hands. Pennywise laughs at its defeat, and dies.
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. He ends his letter with the words "We're Losers, and always
will be".
Jessica ChastainasBeverly Marsh, the only female member of the Losers Club, who
was abused by her father and bullied at school over false rumors of promiscuity. Adult
Beverly is a successful fashion designer in New York City along with her abusive
husband Tom Rogan.
Sophia Lillisas young Beverly Marsh
James McAvoyasBill Denbrough, the determined former leader of the Losers Club who
hunted down and defeated It in the summer of 1989 after his younger brother Georgie is
killed. As an adult, Bill is a successful mystery novelist in Los Angeles whose works are
often criticized for having disappointing endings.
Jaeden Martellas young Bill Denbrough
Bill HaderasRichie Tozier, 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 is a successful stand-up comic in Chicago.
Finn Wolfhardas young Richie Tozier
Isaiah Mustafaas Mike Hanlon, the sole member of the Losers Club who still lives in
Derry, where he is the town librarian. As the only person who remembers everything that
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