There are old relationships to reconcile, new fears to overcome, and a score to settle with an evil that robbed them of their innocence and never left the darkest corners of their minds.Īfter the tremendous success of 2017’s It and the announcement of a second chapter, the big question was who was going to fill the very big shoes of the talented young cast? Excluding Finn Wolfhard, of Stranger Things fame, playing Richie Tozier, It was predominantly cast with unknown actors.

The Losers Club returns to Derry, but not without nearly three decades of history dragging along behind them. Now, twenty-seven years later, their grownup counterparts are called upon to finish the task they started so long ago: kill It. They laid the groundwork, introduced us to this group of outcasts each struggling with their own obstacles and fears, and put a seemingly impossible task in front of them: save the children of Derry from unspeakable evil. On the big screen, things need to keep moving, which is why those behind the 2017 box office hit decided to make the story all about the kids. But the written word has a luxury that films often don’t: time to focus on the little details. In the 1986 novel, King masterfully intertwines the two timelines with silky-smooth transitions at no point does the jumping around feel jarring in any way. This is a story of two generations: a group of adolescent children and their adult selves twenty-seven years later. I wondered, how are they going to squeeze this thousand-plus page epic into a two hour film? Everyone was put at ease when the the filmmakers revealed they had no intention of telling the entire tale in 120 minutes. When the word got out that Stephen King’s horror masterpiece was getting a big screen reboot in 2017, I, like many others, was extremely skeptical. Pennywise looks out from the sewer with hungry, menacing eyes. They aren’t kids anymore and when the evil returns for one last go-around, the only option is to kill It and make sure it stays dead for good. It feeds on fear, and after the ragtag group of friends known as ‘The Losers Club’ are able to vanquish the evil deep into the dark, endless pipes during the summer of 1989, it would seem the nightmare was finally over.įast-forward twenty-seven years, The Losers Club, now aged and gone their separate ways, is drawn back to the town that brought them so much pain, so much terror. The makeup-clad villain is evil personified, a deadly force plucking children from the sleepy town of Derry, Maine, dragging them to his sinister home in the community’s elaborate water pipe system. These are the final words uttered by the flamboyant, giggling clown we’ve come to know as Pennywise. “He thrust his fist into the post and still insists he sees the ghost… Fear.”

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