"To The Losers..."

July 18, 2019 11:33 AM

IT Chapter Two [YouTube Trailer] Stephen King's tale of childhood, growth, and evil clown that haunt your dreams comes to a conclusion in part two of the remake of his horror novel IT. Previously and Previously-er.

The Losers Club adults (Jessica Chastain as Bev, James McAvoy as Bill, Bill Hader as Richie, Jay Ryan as Ben Hanscom, James Ransone as Eddie, Andy Bean as Stan, and Isaiah Mustafa as Mike) return to finish the job after Pennywise (Bill Skarsgård who is absolutely not Tim Curry) makes a timely return to King's Derry, Maine.

IT Chapter Two Official Movie Poster

posted by RolandOfEld (14 comments total)

Humbug, meant to include the date it hits theaters: September 6, 2019.

With an addendum that's stolen from the top YouTube comment:

September 6,2019

9+6+2+0+1+9=27

27 years

mods can add to post text if they like, no sweat either way
posted by RolandOfEld at 11:35 AM on July 18, 2019 [8 favorites]

Looks good to me. I appreciate the sickly-sweet "I missed you." Skarsgård is less comic than the Pennywise in the book (which Curry tracked pretty well), and he doesn't throw around so many jokes and references. But he is definitely unearthly and monstrous, with that sense of pseudo-affectionate fixation on the heroes that so many King villains have.

I hope they're cutting out some of the more dated stuff. Richie would have to be a podcast comic now, and his impressions would actually have to be good instead of exhausting. Bev's husband was an over-the-top sadistic villain, and a more realistic portrait of a controlling abuser is what the movie needs.
posted by Countess Elena at 11:40 AM on July 18, 2019 [3 favorites]

Hile, gunslinger, and thankee-sai for the post.
posted by Rock Steady at 11:42 AM on July 18, 2019 [8 favorites]

I'm gonna be honest, I read the book when I was like...14 or 15 or whatever...and I enjoyed the recent first part enough, but I've never quite been able to figure out what was so scary about a clown in a drain.
posted by turbid dahlia at 2:28 PM on July 18, 2019

Hile, gunslinger, and thankee-sai for the post.
posted by Rock Steady

Now do the rice dance.
posted by Splunge at 2:38 PM on July 18, 2019

I've never quite been able to figure out what was so scary about a clown in a drain

Well, until just a few minutes ago, I would have confidently proclaimed that there was nothing at all scary about kitty cats.

But then this happened.
posted by Atom Eyes at 2:38 PM on July 18, 2019 [1 favorite]

I mean that's just a Comic Con after party though.
posted by turbid dahlia at 2:40 PM on July 18, 2019 [1 favorite]

Atom eyes what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck?
posted by Homo neanderthalensis at 3:25 PM on July 18, 2019 [4 favorites]

Now do the rice dance.

Come. Reap.
posted by RolandOfEld at 4:39 PM on July 18, 2019 [3 favorites]

I happened to see a trailer for It in the theater a couple of weeks ago, not this one but one that focused mostly on Jessica Chastain's character, and... wow. It started out almost funny and ended up genuinely disturbing. I don't see it online anywhere so I can't link unfortunately, but if it's representative of the rest of the film, this thing is going to be crazy.
posted by Two unicycles and some duct tape at 4:58 PM on July 18, 2019 [1 favorite]

not edited to add: aha it's the teaser trailer here that i was thinking of
posted by Two unicycles and some duct tape at 5:09 PM on July 18, 2019

Jesus that teaser trailer was great, captured the feel of that particular scene really well. The regular trailer was okay in the way that almost all big budget movie trailers are now, that make you feel like seeing the movie at this point is kinda optional, you’ve got the theme, style, mood, main characters and general plot all set out for you.
posted by skewed at 7:57 PM on July 18, 2019 [1 favorite]

Well, I didn't nope out of this trailer like I did the first one, but I'm still too scared to see the movie.
posted by kirkaracha at 8:26 AM on July 19, 2019

I am very excited about this. I loved the first part. The casting seems really great for this one, too.
posted by sarcasticah at 1:35 PM on July 21, 2019