The highly-anticipated trailer for the horror sequel It: Chapter Two has finally been released.
Bill Skarsgard is back again as Pennywise The Dancing Clown, who is more terrifying and bloodthirsty than ever in Andy Muschietti’s follow-up to the hit 2017 movie based on Stephen King’s iconic 1986 novel.
The film is set 27 years after the first installment with grown-up versions of the Loser Club. They face off against Pennywise one more time as the evil entity returns to terrorize the children of Derry, Maine.
The film also stars James McAvoy as Bill, Jessica Chastain as Beverly, Bill Hader as Richie, James Ransone as Eddie, Andy Bean as Stanley, Jay Ryan as Ben and Isaiah Mustafa as Mike.
He’s back! Warner Bros. released the first official trailer for It: Chapter Two. Bill Skarsgard returns as the terrifying and bloodthirsty Pennywise
The trailer begins with Beverly (Chastain) returning to her childhood home in Derry, Maine and finding a seemingly friendly Mrs. Kersh living there.
But what starts out as a nostalgic visit gradually turns weird, when it’s revealed that the old lady may not be what she seems.
‘But you know what they say about Derry? No one who dies here ever really dies,’ she says to a stunned and shocked Bev.
Nostalgic: The trailer begins with Beverly (Jessica Chastain) returning to her childhood home in Derry, Maine and finding a seemingly friendly Mrs. Kersh living there
Sinister: But what starts out as a nostalgic visit gradually turns weird, when its revealed that the old lady may not be what she seems
Creepy: ‘But you know what they say about Derry? No one who dies here ever really dies,’ Mrs. Kersh says to a stunned and shocked Bev
Things turn even creepier when Mrs. Kersh reveals that her father joined the circus after initially arriving in the US with $14 in his pocket.
Bev is stunned when she discovers a picture on the wall of the old woman as a child with her father at the circus advertising Pennywise The Dancing Clown.
‘I was always daddy’s little girl, what about you?’ the old woman asks in a sweet tone.
‘Are you still his little girl little Beverly?’ With her voice turning to an angry yell she follows up with: ‘Are you?!’
Revelation: Bev is stunned when she discovers a picture on the wall of the old woman as a child with her father at the circus advertising Pennywise The Dancing Clown.
Sinister: ‘I was always daddy’s little girl, what about you?’ the old woman asks. ‘Are you still his little girl little Beverly?’ With her voice turning to an angry yell she follows up with: ‘Are you?!’
Breathtaking: Mrs. Kersh’s legs are seen as she surges toward Bev in a chilling scene
The trailer ends with a series of quick clips showing the harrowing ordeal that lies ahead for The Losers Club.
The young stars of the original film do make a return in flashback scenes of the Loser Club: Jaeden Lieberher as Bill, Sophia Lillis as Beverly, Finn Wolfhard as Richie, Jack Dylan Grazer as Eddie, Wyatt Oleff as Stanley, Jeremy Ray Taylor as Ben, and Chosen Jacobs as Mike.
Like it’s predecessor, the harrowing story takes place in Derry, a fictional town in Maine that has served as the setting of a number of Stephen King’s novels, novellas and short stories.
Derry first appeared in his short story The Bird And The Album (1981). Along with It (1986), the town has also been used for Insomnia (1994); the short story The Road Virus Heads North (1999), which appears in the collection Everything’s Eventual; Dreamcatcher (2001); Fair Extension (2010); and most recently in the novel 11/22/63 (2011).
There have been a number of his works that makes references to Derry.
The 2017 reboot if It set numerous box office records and grossed $700 million worldwide. Unadjusted for inflation, it is the highest grossing and most profitable horror film of all time. It’s also fourth-highest-grossing R-rated film.
Co-stars Isaiah Mustafa, Bill Hader, James McAvoy, Jay Ryan, Andy Bean and Teach Grant join Chastain as the adult versions of The Losers
They’re back! The young stars of the original film do make a return as the younger Losers
Stunned: The trailer ends with a series of quick clips showing the harrowing ordeal that lies ahead for The Losers Club
Walk down memory lane: Little Georgie appears in the shadows wearing his yellow rain slicker while holding the paper boat Bill made for him
Scary: Pennywise and his deadly tactics are gradually revealed
It: Chapter Two will attempt to bring to life some of the weirder elements from Stephen King’s novel, including the Ritual of Chüd.
Speaking to Cinema Blend last year, writer Gary Dauberman explained: ‘The Ritual of Chüd is challenging, but it’s such an important component to the book that we had to address it.
‘That stuff is difficult to balance, but because [director Andy Muschietti, producer Barbara Muschietti and I] worked with each other before, when I’m writing pages and all that stuff it becomes more of a conversation and less like, “Hey, here’s what I did.” It’s sort of organic; it’s really kind of just chipping away at the stone and trying to find the most focused, accessible way into some of more metaphysical aspects of that book.’
The Ritual of Chüd is described in the book as a battle of wills in which the murderous clown Pennywise and a member of the Losers Club each extend their tongues, overlap them, bite down, and then exchange jokes until one party laughs.
Dauberman didn’t think it was possible to cover the Ritual of Chüd in the first film because him and Muschietti had to get to know one another’s cinematic style.
He explained: ‘I think that’s something that Andy gave a lot of thought about, which was great, because as I was kind of chugging along through the Adrian Melon stuff and sort of more the stuff that’s in the book that you kind of just want to see on screen.
‘I’m writing that stuff, and Andy would kind of go off and think about Chüd and how he wants to visually represent all that stuff. He just came up with some brilliant, brilliant stuff… It really is going to be amazing.’
It: Chapter Two is scheduled to hit US theaters September 6, 2019.
Sign of trouble: Balloons fall during Pennywise’s reign of terror
Lurking below: There’s a look at the site of the Losers’ final confrontation with Pennywise in the first film
#1: The first film set numerous box office records by earning $700 million worldwide, which includes being the highest grossing and most profitable horror film of all time
Coming soon: It: Chapter Two is scheduled to hit US theaters September 6, 2019
Will It: Chapter Two be the most gruesome horror ever?
Jessica Chastain recently revealed there is a scene in It: Chapter Two that has the ‘most blood that’s ever been in a horror film’.
The 41-year-old actress is playing the adult-version of Beverly in Andy Muschietti’s sequel to the hit 2017 movie based on Stephen King’s iconic 1986 novel.
Shooting on the project wrapped last November and now Jessica has let slip there is one scene that is so gory it is going to make horror history.
Blood and gore: Jessica Chastain recently revealed there is a scene in It: Chapter Two that has the ‘most blood that’s ever been in a horror film’
The Molly’s Game star is very much part of the sequence with Pennywise the Dancing Clown – who is played by Bill Skarsgard – and she admits she was picking fake blood off her face for hours afterwards.
Speaking about the follow-up film on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon earlier this year, she said: ‘It’s scary man, I love the scary stuff but it’s more fun to be the scary person than the one getting scared.
‘I’m going to say something, and I think I’m going to be in trouble but I’m going to do it, in the movie there’s a scene and someone said on set that it’s the most blood that’s ever been in a horror film in a scene. I can tell you the next day I was pulling blood out of my eyeballs, like, fake blood.’
It: Chapter Two is scheduled to hit US theaters September 6, 2019.