Stephen King’s impact on the cinema industry is hard to overestimate, as the movies adapted from his brilliant novels have brought billions to the filmmakers. However, what if we try to imagine a biographical film about this writer and his creative process?
Here are 4 actors who could potentially play King in a biopic, according to Reddit.
1. Bill Hader
This actor is presumably the one who comes first in mind in this respect, as he doesn’t only look very much like the writer, but is also familiar with his horror universe as he played the adult Richie Tozier in It Chapter Two (2019).
“Hader would be perfect not just because of his looks, but because Sk is a genuinely funny guy Irl,” admits Redditor @thewoodlayer. Indeed, the actor’s comedy skills would be of much value here too.
2. Rainn Wilson
“Identity theft is not a joke, Steve,” jokes @msstark, recalling...
Here are 4 actors who could potentially play King in a biopic, according to Reddit.
1. Bill Hader
This actor is presumably the one who comes first in mind in this respect, as he doesn’t only look very much like the writer, but is also familiar with his horror universe as he played the adult Richie Tozier in It Chapter Two (2019).
“Hader would be perfect not just because of his looks, but because Sk is a genuinely funny guy Irl,” admits Redditor @thewoodlayer. Indeed, the actor’s comedy skills would be of much value here too.
2. Rainn Wilson
“Identity theft is not a joke, Steve,” jokes @msstark, recalling...
- 5/16/2024
- by info@startefacts.com (Ava Raxa)
- STartefacts.com
The 1990 television adaptation of Stephen King's horror novel "It" may be best known for Tim Curry's performance as Pennywise, who made an entire generation seriously terrified of clowns, but it would be nothing without the heart and soul of the Loser's Club. In the 1950s, a group of misfit kids growing up in Derry, Maine are brought together, partially because they don't belong anywhere else, but also because they happen to be targeted by the malevolent force that haunts their town, stealing and murdering its local children. Together, they have to face off against Pennywise to stop the killing once and for all. That's what they think, anyway. But despite defeating Pennywise as children, they're forced to return to Derry as adults and once again confront the terrors of their youth.
As a result of this, "It" has an interesting casting dilemma of finding not only seven...
As a result of this, "It" has an interesting casting dilemma of finding not only seven...
- 3/23/2024
- by Audrey Fox
- Slash Film
Horror villains may terrify us and give us countless nightmares but that doesn't stop us from shelling out our hard-earned cash to see them hack their way through innocent victims on the big screen. There are innumerable reasons why these murderous figures have become pop culture icons: their signature modus operandi, their unique looks, the one-liners they spout before causing some serious bloodshed, whatever. From Leatherface to Ghostface, from Pinhead to Pumpkinhead, we simply can't take our eyes off the screen when these legendary monsters make their appearance.
However, there's no better way to undermine the terror and mystery of horror villains than by watching the actors who play them goof around behind the scenes. Not only does it destroy the illusion by revealing that these maniacs and monsters are just people in costumes and makeup but it shows that, in reality, they are about as harmless as Casper the Friendly Ghost.
However, there's no better way to undermine the terror and mystery of horror villains than by watching the actors who play them goof around behind the scenes. Not only does it destroy the illusion by revealing that these maniacs and monsters are just people in costumes and makeup but it shows that, in reality, they are about as harmless as Casper the Friendly Ghost.
- 12/9/2023
- by Joe Garza
- Slash Film
Image Source: Getty / Frazer Harrison, Araya Doheny, Monica Schipper
Pennywise is breaking his 27-year curse and returning to Derry sooner than expected. Joining him are Taylour Paige, Jovan Adepo, Chris Chalk, and James Remar, who have all been added to the cast, Variety reported on April 5. Like many other details about the show, their specific roles are being kept under wraps.
HBO Max announced that an "It" prequel series titled "Welcome to Derry" was in the works on March 29, 2022, and officially gave it the green light on Feb. 23. The series, inspired by Stephen King's horror classic, will explore life in Derry leading up to Pennywise's tirade on the Losers Club before the razor-toothed killer clown's misdeeds led Georgie to his unfortunate fate in that rainy sewer drain.
However, there's a big caveat. On March 28, in an interview with Jake's Takes, Bill Skarsgård, who received critical acclaim for his role as Pennywise,...
Pennywise is breaking his 27-year curse and returning to Derry sooner than expected. Joining him are Taylour Paige, Jovan Adepo, Chris Chalk, and James Remar, who have all been added to the cast, Variety reported on April 5. Like many other details about the show, their specific roles are being kept under wraps.
HBO Max announced that an "It" prequel series titled "Welcome to Derry" was in the works on March 29, 2022, and officially gave it the green light on Feb. 23. The series, inspired by Stephen King's horror classic, will explore life in Derry leading up to Pennywise's tirade on the Losers Club before the razor-toothed killer clown's misdeeds led Georgie to his unfortunate fate in that rainy sewer drain.
However, there's a big caveat. On March 28, in an interview with Jake's Takes, Bill Skarsgård, who received critical acclaim for his role as Pennywise,...
- 4/5/2023
- by Chanel Vargas
- Popsugar.com
When the "It" film series was preparing for its second installment, few were more jazzed than star James McAvoy, who would get to meet celebrated author Stephen King. "It: Chapter 2" is the latter of a two-part adaptation of King's behemoth 1986 novel, "It," released a couple of years after the first "It" in 2017.
McAvoy stars as the adult iteration of William "Bill" Denbrough, whom audiences met in "Chapter One" as the adolescent, resolute leader of the ragtag Losers Club. Along with fellow kids Beverly Marsh, Richie Tozier, Mike Hanlon, Ben Hanscom, Eddie Kaspbrak, and Stanley Uris, young Bill battles the supernatural entity of the title who takes the form of Pennywise the Dancing Clown, a clown responsible for several cycles of child deaths in Derry, Maine. When Pennywise resurfaces 27 years after the Losers defeated him in 1989, Mike gathers the old band back together for a final showdown with evil.
McAvoy...
McAvoy stars as the adult iteration of William "Bill" Denbrough, whom audiences met in "Chapter One" as the adolescent, resolute leader of the ragtag Losers Club. Along with fellow kids Beverly Marsh, Richie Tozier, Mike Hanlon, Ben Hanscom, Eddie Kaspbrak, and Stanley Uris, young Bill battles the supernatural entity of the title who takes the form of Pennywise the Dancing Clown, a clown responsible for several cycles of child deaths in Derry, Maine. When Pennywise resurfaces 27 years after the Losers defeated him in 1989, Mike gathers the old band back together for a final showdown with evil.
McAvoy...
- 9/17/2022
- by Anya Stanley
- Slash Film
He's Watching: "Jacob Aaron Estes, who wowed audiences with Mean Creek and his Sundance 2019 darling Don't Let Go, offers up one of his most personal and thrilling tales yet with He's Watching, which lands on U.S. VOD next Thursday, July 21st, from XYZ Films.
Creating the project with his wife, musician Gretchen Lieberum, and children, Iris Serena Estes and Lucas Steel Estes, during the height of Covid-19 lockdown, the filmmaker originally conceived He's Watching as a way to stave off his family's boredom while trapped in their home.
What it became was much more than that.
When happy-go-lucky siblings Iris and Lucas (playing fictionalized versions of themselves) are left alone while their parents recover from an illness, a series of playful pranks they play on each other escalate when they start receiving unsettling images and videos on their phones. With the incoming messages becoming increasingly nightmarish, Iris and Lucas...
Creating the project with his wife, musician Gretchen Lieberum, and children, Iris Serena Estes and Lucas Steel Estes, during the height of Covid-19 lockdown, the filmmaker originally conceived He's Watching as a way to stave off his family's boredom while trapped in their home.
What it became was much more than that.
When happy-go-lucky siblings Iris and Lucas (playing fictionalized versions of themselves) are left alone while their parents recover from an illness, a series of playful pranks they play on each other escalate when they start receiving unsettling images and videos on their phones. With the incoming messages becoming increasingly nightmarish, Iris and Lucas...
- 7/14/2022
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
“Stranger Things” star Finn Wolfhard and “When You Finish Saving the World’s” Billy Bryk are set to write and direct the horror-comedy “Hell of a Summer.”
Wolfhard, Bryk and Fred Hechinger will star in the film, for which plot details are being kept tightly under wraps.
Hechinger, Aggregate Films’ Jason Bateman and Michael Costigan, and Parts and Labor’s Jay Van Hoy will produce the film, with principal photography beginning this month in Ontario, Canada. 30West is fully financing, executive producing the film and co-representing the worldwide rights alongside CAA Media Finance.
“I am so excited to be co-directing my first feature film,” said Wolfhard. “I get the chance to work with an incredible cast and crew, and to work with a company like 30West and Aggregate is a real dream.”
Wolfhard is best known for his starring roles as Mike Wheeler in Netflix’s “Stranger Things,” and also...
Wolfhard, Bryk and Fred Hechinger will star in the film, for which plot details are being kept tightly under wraps.
Hechinger, Aggregate Films’ Jason Bateman and Michael Costigan, and Parts and Labor’s Jay Van Hoy will produce the film, with principal photography beginning this month in Ontario, Canada. 30West is fully financing, executive producing the film and co-representing the worldwide rights alongside CAA Media Finance.
“I am so excited to be co-directing my first feature film,” said Wolfhard. “I get the chance to work with an incredible cast and crew, and to work with a company like 30West and Aggregate is a real dream.”
Wolfhard is best known for his starring roles as Mike Wheeler in Netflix’s “Stranger Things,” and also...
- 7/12/2022
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
Actors Finn Wolfhard (Stranger Things) and Billy Bryk (When You Finish Saving the World) will make their feature directorial debut with Hell of a Summer—a contemporary horror-comedy based on their original script, in which they’ll star alongside Fred Hechinger (The White Lotus).
Details as to the film’s plot are being kept under wraps. But Hechinger will produce alongside Aggregate Films’ Jason Bateman and Michael Costigan, and Parts and Labor’s Jay Van Hoy. 30West is fully financing and exec producing the film, and co-repping worldwide rights with CAA Media Finance. Production kicks off in Ontario, Canada this month.
Hell of a Summer joins a slate of projects that 30West that includes Cooper Raiff’s The Trashers starring David Harbour; Marc Webb’s genre-bending thriller Day Drinker; and the forthcoming reimagining of The Crow, which the company helped package with Rupert Sanders directing and Bill Skarsgård and FKA Twigs attached to star.
Details as to the film’s plot are being kept under wraps. But Hechinger will produce alongside Aggregate Films’ Jason Bateman and Michael Costigan, and Parts and Labor’s Jay Van Hoy. 30West is fully financing and exec producing the film, and co-repping worldwide rights with CAA Media Finance. Production kicks off in Ontario, Canada this month.
Hell of a Summer joins a slate of projects that 30West that includes Cooper Raiff’s The Trashers starring David Harbour; Marc Webb’s genre-bending thriller Day Drinker; and the forthcoming reimagining of The Crow, which the company helped package with Rupert Sanders directing and Bill Skarsgård and FKA Twigs attached to star.
- 7/12/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
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Stranger Things star Finn Wolfhard and Billy Bryk are set to direct the horror comedy Hell of a Summer for 30West.
Wolfhard and Bryk wrote the script for the indie, and will also star alongside Fred Hechinger. Plot details remain under wraps.
“I am so excited to be co-directing my first feature film. I get the chance to work with an incredible cast and crew, and to work with a company like 30West and Aggregate is a real dream,” Wolfhard, who along with Bryk is a native Canadian, said in a statement.
Hechinger, Jason Bateman, Michael Costigan and Jay Van Hoy will produce the film, with production set to start this month in Ontario, Canada. Aggregate Films and Parts and Labor Production are also producing Hell of a Summer.
In 2020, Wolfhard made his directorial debut with the short film Night Shifts. On screen,...
Stranger Things star Finn Wolfhard and Billy Bryk are set to direct the horror comedy Hell of a Summer for 30West.
Wolfhard and Bryk wrote the script for the indie, and will also star alongside Fred Hechinger. Plot details remain under wraps.
“I am so excited to be co-directing my first feature film. I get the chance to work with an incredible cast and crew, and to work with a company like 30West and Aggregate is a real dream,” Wolfhard, who along with Bryk is a native Canadian, said in a statement.
Hechinger, Jason Bateman, Michael Costigan and Jay Van Hoy will produce the film, with production set to start this month in Ontario, Canada. Aggregate Films and Parts and Labor Production are also producing Hell of a Summer.
In 2020, Wolfhard made his directorial debut with the short film Night Shifts. On screen,...
- 7/12/2022
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
’Hell Of A Summer’ based on original screenplay by Wolfhard and Bryk.
Stranger Things star Finn Wolfhard and Billy Bryk from Cannes and Sundance entry When You Finish Saving The World will direct horror comedy Hell Of A Summer for 30West.
Wolfhard and Bryk will star in the contemporary film alongside Fred Hechinger from The White Lotus and Pam & Tommy. Wolfhard and Bryk co-wrote the screenplay and plot details remain under wraps.
Principal photography is scheduled to commence this month in Ontario, Canada. Hechinger, Aggregate Films’ Jason Bateman and Michael Costigan and Parts and Labor’s Jay Van Hoy will serve as producers.
Stranger Things star Finn Wolfhard and Billy Bryk from Cannes and Sundance entry When You Finish Saving The World will direct horror comedy Hell Of A Summer for 30West.
Wolfhard and Bryk will star in the contemporary film alongside Fred Hechinger from The White Lotus and Pam & Tommy. Wolfhard and Bryk co-wrote the screenplay and plot details remain under wraps.
Principal photography is scheduled to commence this month in Ontario, Canada. Hechinger, Aggregate Films’ Jason Bateman and Michael Costigan and Parts and Labor’s Jay Van Hoy will serve as producers.
- 7/12/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
No creature has dominated the cultural landscape quite like Pennywise the Dancing Clown. The shapeshifting monster is the central villain in Stephen King's 1986 horror masterpiece "It," with a persona as nebulous as his story's title. The otherworldly being lives deep within the foundations of Derry, Maine, a town cursed with his pervasive evil and a frequent setting in King's canon. Pennywise emerges every 27 years to feast on Derry's children, and this time he's set his sights on the Losers Club. Outcasts Bill Denbrough, Mike Hanlon, Richie Tozier, Eddie Kaspbrak, Stanley "Stan" Uris, Ben Hanscom, and Beverly Marsh form a strong bond that enables them to...
The post Explaining All Of The Powers Of Pennywise appeared first on /Film.
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- 5/17/2022
- by Jenn Adams
- Slash Film
As a queer woman who has spent nearly three decades on this planet desperate for representation, I've gotten very, very good at finding hidden messages, subtext, and queer coding just to feel seen by the media I love so much. Hell, I'm mentioned in the IMDb trivia for "It: Chapter 2" when I pointed out that the queer coded Richie Tozier is wearing the same shirt as Jesse in the wildly queer "A Nightmare on Elm Street 2." I have a black belt in head canoning and detecting queerness when the text (or producers/distributors) are too afraid to say the quiet part out...
The post Is Cynthia Nixon's Miranda Coming Out in And Just Like That...? appeared first on /Film.
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- 11/13/2021
- by BJ Colangelo
- Slash Film
It’s been a weird and often devastating year, and our social media has reflected that. Tumblr has just released its top fandoms of 2020 and it’s fascinating to see how a year of pandemic and quarantine has affected transformative fandom and broader cultural trends. In a year when almost everyone spent a lot more time at home, Animal Crossing: New Horizons was the most blogged about topic on the social media platform, followed by animated dramedy Steven Universe, Belgian Skam adaptation WtFOCK, K-pop supergroup BTS, and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. We talked to Tumblr’s Trend Expert Amanda Brennan about how she interpreted the biggest trends of the year, how this was a big year for animation and international media, and why 2020 was the year everyone stopped worrying about what was cool and just embraced what they love. But, first, some 2020 Tumblr statistics:
Top 20 of 2020
Animal Crossing:...
Top 20 of 2020
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- 12/7/2020
- by Kayti Burt
- Den of Geek
Another year has come and gone, and it was another great one for horror. Theatrical horror, indie horror, physical media, streaming, books, TV—there was so much good stuff I couldn’t even get to all of it, though I gave it my best effort. Here are some of my favorites of 2019 in no particular order.
Shudder: In just a few short years, Shudder has become the single most essential must-have for every horror fan. Their library grows more expansive and impressive every week, their curation of beloved favorites, smaller and lesser-known indies, and horror from around the globe impeccable. This year alone they featured the likes of Tigers Are Not Afraid, the Tom Savini documentary Smoke and Mirrors, One Cut of the Dead, Belzebuth, The Furies, Get My Gun, Hagazussa, Knife + Heart, The Ranger, the documentary Horror Noire, The Head Hunter, and so, so many more. A number...
Shudder: In just a few short years, Shudder has become the single most essential must-have for every horror fan. Their library grows more expansive and impressive every week, their curation of beloved favorites, smaller and lesser-known indies, and horror from around the globe impeccable. This year alone they featured the likes of Tigers Are Not Afraid, the Tom Savini documentary Smoke and Mirrors, One Cut of the Dead, Belzebuth, The Furies, Get My Gun, Hagazussa, Knife + Heart, The Ranger, the documentary Horror Noire, The Head Hunter, and so, so many more. A number...
- 1/9/2020
- by Patrick Bromley
- DailyDead
Tony Sokol Oct 10, 2019
The Addams Family is a cure for the commonplace, and directors Greg Tiernan and Conrad Vernon like talking about that and their new movie.
Creepy, kooky, mysterious, ookie, The Addams Family embraces them all. From back when Chas Addams' pen created them in The New Yorker through the '60s television series to the '90s cinematic double jolt, the batty bloodline brings macabre warmth to all generations. The upcoming 3D computer-animated reincarnation incorporates all that has come before and finds room for growth to introduce the family to impressionable young minds of any age. Oscar Isaac and Charlize Theron star as Gomez and Morticia Addams, taking on the roles rendered equally iconic by John Astin and Carolyn Jones on TV and then by Anjelica Huston and Raul Julia in the '90s films.
While Christina Ricci stole the movies via grand theft performance, Chloë Grace Moretz...
The Addams Family is a cure for the commonplace, and directors Greg Tiernan and Conrad Vernon like talking about that and their new movie.
Creepy, kooky, mysterious, ookie, The Addams Family embraces them all. From back when Chas Addams' pen created them in The New Yorker through the '60s television series to the '90s cinematic double jolt, the batty bloodline brings macabre warmth to all generations. The upcoming 3D computer-animated reincarnation incorporates all that has come before and finds room for growth to introduce the family to impressionable young minds of any age. Oscar Isaac and Charlize Theron star as Gomez and Morticia Addams, taking on the roles rendered equally iconic by John Astin and Carolyn Jones on TV and then by Anjelica Huston and Raul Julia in the '90s films.
While Christina Ricci stole the movies via grand theft performance, Chloë Grace Moretz...
- 10/1/2019
- Den of Geek
It Chapter Two is the supernatural horror sequel to its first chapter in 2017, It, both directed by Andy Muschietti and based off Stephen King's exemplary 1,138 word novel. It reintroduces the kids from the first chapter as mostly successful adults who've done their best to move on from the traumatic summer of 1989. James McAvoy plays the main protagonist, Bill Denbrough, who has become a novelist with an actress wife, Jessica Chastain plays Beverly Marsh as a well known, Chicago-based fashion designer, Bill Hader plays Richie Tozier as a famous La based comedian, James Ransome plays Eddie Kaspbrak who is ironically a NYC based risk assessor, Andy Bean plays Stanley Uris who has become a wealthy partner of an accounting business, and Isaiah Mustafa plays Mike Hanlon who is the only one to have stayed in Derry, working as a local librarian. Clearly, most of them have moved far away from...
- 9/21/2019
- by Juliet Poucher
- Hollywood Insider - Substance & Meaningful Entertainment
Image Source: Everett Collection
Fyi: some spoilers for It Chapter Two ahead!
Much like its predecessor, It Chapter Two maintains a healthy balance between depraved horror and laugh-out-loud humor. Though much of the latter can be attributed to Finn Wolfhard and Bill Hader's joint portrayal of Richie Tozier, a cameo is also the recipient of a good chuckle. To not draw it out further: Stephen King - yes, the mastermind behind Pennywise and the original It novel - appears in the freaking sequel!
The cameo happens about midway through the movie when the grown-up members of the Losers Club embark on a mission to recollect tokens from their childhood that might jog their mysteriously foggy memories of Pennywise and what happened that Summer of 1989. That's when Bill Denbrough (James McAvoy) spots his old bike, Silver, in the window of an antique store in Derry. The curmudgeonly shop owner buried behind relics at his desk?...
Fyi: some spoilers for It Chapter Two ahead!
Much like its predecessor, It Chapter Two maintains a healthy balance between depraved horror and laugh-out-loud humor. Though much of the latter can be attributed to Finn Wolfhard and Bill Hader's joint portrayal of Richie Tozier, a cameo is also the recipient of a good chuckle. To not draw it out further: Stephen King - yes, the mastermind behind Pennywise and the original It novel - appears in the freaking sequel!
The cameo happens about midway through the movie when the grown-up members of the Losers Club embark on a mission to recollect tokens from their childhood that might jog their mysteriously foggy memories of Pennywise and what happened that Summer of 1989. That's when Bill Denbrough (James McAvoy) spots his old bike, Silver, in the window of an antique store in Derry. The curmudgeonly shop owner buried behind relics at his desk?...
- 9/14/2019
- by Kelsey Garcia
- Popsugar.com
While it was never explicitly stated that Richie Tozier is gay in Stephen King’s novel “It,” the movie “It: Chapter Two” heavily implies that he is.
“That was something that we talked about when I arrived,” Bill Hader, who plays the adult Richie in director Andy Muschietti’s second and final “It” film, says on this week’s “The Big Ticket,” Variety and iHeart’s movie podcast. “I learned about all this stuff about people thinking they’re gay and not knowing if they’re gay and that it was implied in the book. I think Stephen King said he never thought of it that way but he likes the interpretation. I talked to Andy about it and we had a long conversation. We just decided, ‘Oh, let’s just do it.’”
While Richie doesn’t discuss his sexuality in the film, Hader said of Richie, “Hopefully, he has an understanding of,...
“That was something that we talked about when I arrived,” Bill Hader, who plays the adult Richie in director Andy Muschietti’s second and final “It” film, says on this week’s “The Big Ticket,” Variety and iHeart’s movie podcast. “I learned about all this stuff about people thinking they’re gay and not knowing if they’re gay and that it was implied in the book. I think Stephen King said he never thought of it that way but he likes the interpretation. I talked to Andy about it and we had a long conversation. We just decided, ‘Oh, let’s just do it.’”
While Richie doesn’t discuss his sexuality in the film, Hader said of Richie, “Hopefully, he has an understanding of,...
- 9/12/2019
- by Marc Malkin
- Variety Film + TV
Image Source: Everett Collection
Just like Pennywise, spoilers for It Chapter Two are lurking ahead.
It should come as no surprise to anyone who saw 2017's It that Pennywise the Dancing Clown (Bill Skarsgard) has an uncanny ability to reach down into his victims' psyches and pluck out what they're most insecure about, using it to lure them into his very large, very sharp jaw. In the horror film's new sequel It Chapter Two, we see the evil sewer dweller do this to all the now-adult members of the Losers Club. But it's the very specific, borderline ambiguous way that he taunts Richie Tozier (Bill Hader) about a certain "secret" that might have surprised both readers of the book and Stephen King newbies alike.
Set 27 years after the events featured in the first film, the sequel picks up with the preteens now that they're well into adulthood. Richie is an up-and-coming stand-up comedian,...
Just like Pennywise, spoilers for It Chapter Two are lurking ahead.
It should come as no surprise to anyone who saw 2017's It that Pennywise the Dancing Clown (Bill Skarsgard) has an uncanny ability to reach down into his victims' psyches and pluck out what they're most insecure about, using it to lure them into his very large, very sharp jaw. In the horror film's new sequel It Chapter Two, we see the evil sewer dweller do this to all the now-adult members of the Losers Club. But it's the very specific, borderline ambiguous way that he taunts Richie Tozier (Bill Hader) about a certain "secret" that might have surprised both readers of the book and Stephen King newbies alike.
Set 27 years after the events featured in the first film, the sequel picks up with the preteens now that they're well into adulthood. Richie is an up-and-coming stand-up comedian,...
- 9/12/2019
- by Quinn Keaney
- Popsugar.com
David Crow Sep 11, 2019
We examine the hate crimes in It Chapter Two and the importance of making Bill Hader’s Richie Tozier gay.
This article contains major spoilers for It Chapter Two and Stephen King’s novel.
Despite what internet memes have been saying for years, it turns out Pennywise the Dancing Clown was not an ally or supporter of Lgbtq causes. This should not come as a shock, yet for many, the level of bruality the child-eating space clown reserved for a gay character in It Chapter Two’s opening was nothing short of horrifying. As the introduction to a sprawling finale of Stephen King’s ode to childhood joys and traumas, and the adults who repress both, this amount of cruelty is glaringly uncomfortable, even for those who had been prepared by a novel that’s even more steeped than the movies in the agony of hate and the suffering it ferments.
We examine the hate crimes in It Chapter Two and the importance of making Bill Hader’s Richie Tozier gay.
This article contains major spoilers for It Chapter Two and Stephen King’s novel.
Despite what internet memes have been saying for years, it turns out Pennywise the Dancing Clown was not an ally or supporter of Lgbtq causes. This should not come as a shock, yet for many, the level of bruality the child-eating space clown reserved for a gay character in It Chapter Two’s opening was nothing short of horrifying. As the introduction to a sprawling finale of Stephen King’s ode to childhood joys and traumas, and the adults who repress both, this amount of cruelty is glaringly uncomfortable, even for those who had been prepared by a novel that’s even more steeped than the movies in the agony of hate and the suffering it ferments.
- 9/10/2019
- Den of Geek
[Editor’s note: Spoilers ahead for “It: Chapter Two.”]
“It: Chapter Two” has finally hit theaters, and the much-anticipated sequel to last year’s blockbuster Stephen king adaptation did not disappoint. In one of the most exciting developments in director Andy Muschietti’s follow-up, which was written by Gary Dauberman, the pair depart from the original novel to support a long-held fan theory that a major character — Richie Tozier (played by Bill Hader and Finn Wolfhard) — is bisexual. During a terrifying flashback sequence involving clown Pennywise (Bill Skarsgard), “It: Chapter Two” firmly establishes that Richie is not strictly heterosexual, and that the revelation that he is indeed interested in men is actually one of his biggest fears.
Specifically, he has feelings for Eddie Kaspbrak (played by Jack Dylan Grazer and James Ransone). “It’s actually not really alluded to in the book,” Ransone told IndieWire during a recent interview. “I read the book. It’s a big departure from the book.
“It: Chapter Two” has finally hit theaters, and the much-anticipated sequel to last year’s blockbuster Stephen king adaptation did not disappoint. In one of the most exciting developments in director Andy Muschietti’s follow-up, which was written by Gary Dauberman, the pair depart from the original novel to support a long-held fan theory that a major character — Richie Tozier (played by Bill Hader and Finn Wolfhard) — is bisexual. During a terrifying flashback sequence involving clown Pennywise (Bill Skarsgard), “It: Chapter Two” firmly establishes that Richie is not strictly heterosexual, and that the revelation that he is indeed interested in men is actually one of his biggest fears.
Specifically, he has feelings for Eddie Kaspbrak (played by Jack Dylan Grazer and James Ransone). “It’s actually not really alluded to in the book,” Ransone told IndieWire during a recent interview. “I read the book. It’s a big departure from the book.
- 9/10/2019
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
[Editor’s note: Spoilers ahead for “It Chapter Two.”]
Stephen King’s “It” notoriously clocks in at over 1,100 pages, more than enough material to power Andy Muschietti’s pair of horror outings (he’s already getting chatty about the possibility of a massive director’s cut). Nevertheless, for “It Chapter Two,” Muschietti and screenwriter Gary Dauberman crafted a fresh series of flashbacks that allow the sequel to include appearances from the first film’s young cast while rounding out the emotional stakes for their older counterparts.
Most of the flashbacks build on storylines introduced in the first film, and were pulled directly from King’s text, like Bill and Beverly’s romance or Ben’s own affection for Bev. However, Muschietti and Dauberman’s sequel also makes one major change. Thanks to a key flashback to the Losers’ Club in their younger years, and a later emotional moment involving star Bill Hader (playing an older version of Finn Wolfhard...
Stephen King’s “It” notoriously clocks in at over 1,100 pages, more than enough material to power Andy Muschietti’s pair of horror outings (he’s already getting chatty about the possibility of a massive director’s cut). Nevertheless, for “It Chapter Two,” Muschietti and screenwriter Gary Dauberman crafted a fresh series of flashbacks that allow the sequel to include appearances from the first film’s young cast while rounding out the emotional stakes for their older counterparts.
Most of the flashbacks build on storylines introduced in the first film, and were pulled directly from King’s text, like Bill and Beverly’s romance or Ben’s own affection for Bev. However, Muschietti and Dauberman’s sequel also makes one major change. Thanks to a key flashback to the Losers’ Club in their younger years, and a later emotional moment involving star Bill Hader (playing an older version of Finn Wolfhard...
- 9/9/2019
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
"It: Chapter Two"; Cast: Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, Bill Hader, Bill Skarsgard; Direction: Andy Muschietti; Rating: ** and 1/2
What happens when you have a wafer-thin story and want to stretch the narrative for nearly three hours? You would definitely land up with an incredulous plot with a subjective scheme.
This is exactly what Director Andy Muschietti has indulged in, in his latest, supernatural horror, "It: Chapter Two", which is based on the 1986 novel "It" by Stephen King.
Like its prequel, "Chapter Two", too is a popcorn flick built in an erratic, episodic structure with endless jump scares and chase sequences that at times work and at times feel forced. This would surely frustrate those who expect certain dynamics in drama and suspense. Nevertheless, the plot is engaging and it does quickly begin to feel like an inconsequential gauntlet that must be endured, rather than enjoyed.
The proceedings of "It: Chapter Two...
What happens when you have a wafer-thin story and want to stretch the narrative for nearly three hours? You would definitely land up with an incredulous plot with a subjective scheme.
This is exactly what Director Andy Muschietti has indulged in, in his latest, supernatural horror, "It: Chapter Two", which is based on the 1986 novel "It" by Stephen King.
Like its prequel, "Chapter Two", too is a popcorn flick built in an erratic, episodic structure with endless jump scares and chase sequences that at times work and at times feel forced. This would surely frustrate those who expect certain dynamics in drama and suspense. Nevertheless, the plot is engaging and it does quickly begin to feel like an inconsequential gauntlet that must be endured, rather than enjoyed.
The proceedings of "It: Chapter Two...
- 9/7/2019
- GlamSham
[This story contains spoilers for It: Chapter Two.]
Stephen King's novel It views the end of childhood as the moment that an individual loses their virginity. In an act of love, defiance and desperation, the Losers Club have an orgy in a sewer. The purpose of the act was meant to express love in the darkest hour. The scene met a lot of criticism when the novel was first released in 1986. In the 2017 film adaptation, the children find another way to bond. They make a blood pact. They agree to return to Derry, Maine, to defeat Pennywise ...
Stephen King's novel It views the end of childhood as the moment that an individual loses their virginity. In an act of love, defiance and desperation, the Losers Club have an orgy in a sewer. The purpose of the act was meant to express love in the darkest hour. The scene met a lot of criticism when the novel was first released in 1986. In the 2017 film adaptation, the children find another way to bond. They make a blood pact. They agree to return to Derry, Maine, to defeat Pennywise ...
David Crow Sep 6, 2019
It Chapter Two makes a few big changes to its source material that might surprise Stephen King fans. Here's what we found...
This article contains major It Chapter Two spoilers.
After 2017’s It became the highest opening horror movie of all time two Septembers ago, it was a forgone conclusion that we would soon be watching an It Chapter Two. And unlike most sequels, it made creative sense. By adapting Stephen King’s ponderous tome about the childhood terrors and traumas we suppress, director Andy Muschietti wisely cut the nearly 1,200-page book in half. Presented in print as a back-and-forth dialogue between childhood and adulthood, Muschietti opted to tell the story (mostly) chronologically and focus simply on childhood in 2017.
So any King fan knew going in that there must be a sequel to finish the tale. For closure, we needed to return to Derry again, whether we wanted to or not.
It Chapter Two makes a few big changes to its source material that might surprise Stephen King fans. Here's what we found...
This article contains major It Chapter Two spoilers.
After 2017’s It became the highest opening horror movie of all time two Septembers ago, it was a forgone conclusion that we would soon be watching an It Chapter Two. And unlike most sequels, it made creative sense. By adapting Stephen King’s ponderous tome about the childhood terrors and traumas we suppress, director Andy Muschietti wisely cut the nearly 1,200-page book in half. Presented in print as a back-and-forth dialogue between childhood and adulthood, Muschietti opted to tell the story (mostly) chronologically and focus simply on childhood in 2017.
So any King fan knew going in that there must be a sequel to finish the tale. For closure, we needed to return to Derry again, whether we wanted to or not.
- 9/6/2019
- Den of Geek
[This story contains spoilers for It: Chapter Two]
It: Chapter Two has arrived in theaters and screenwriter Gary Dauberman is ready to discuss the highly anticipated sequel to the 2017 blockbuster based off the classic Stephen King novel. Starring James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain, Bill Hader, Isaiah Mustafa, Jay Ryan, James Ransone and Andy Bean as the adult Losers Club, the Warner Bros. film is as much about friends, love and strength as it is about horror, blood and gore. Bill Skarsgård as Pennywise sees to the latter.
Set 27 years after the events depicted in the first film, It: ...
It: Chapter Two has arrived in theaters and screenwriter Gary Dauberman is ready to discuss the highly anticipated sequel to the 2017 blockbuster based off the classic Stephen King novel. Starring James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain, Bill Hader, Isaiah Mustafa, Jay Ryan, James Ransone and Andy Bean as the adult Losers Club, the Warner Bros. film is as much about friends, love and strength as it is about horror, blood and gore. Bill Skarsgård as Pennywise sees to the latter.
Set 27 years after the events depicted in the first film, It: ...
We went and saw a movie I have been waiting all year to see, It Chapter Two. The movie will hit theater’s this week and will surely be a delight for fans of Stephen King and his killer clown creation Pennywise. The movie was well worth the wait, and don’t be surprised if you see more Pennywise costumes this Halloween. Pennywise has returned after a twenty-seven-year slumber and begins feasting on the children of Derry once more. The Loser’s Club who first defeated Pennywise years before must return to their old town to defeat the killer clown once and for all. Whoever did the casting to cast the adult Loser’s should win an award. Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, Bill Hader, Isaiah Mustafa, Jay Ryan, James Ransone, and Andy Bean all portray the adult Losers. I got to admit Bill Hader hit it out of the park playing...
- 9/5/2019
- by Stephen Nepa
- Age of the Nerd
I was one of the few not to go over the moon for It. That first installment, which ran two hours and fifteen minutes, felt incredibly padded out to me. Here, with It: Chapter Two, it’s over a half hour longer and all of the issues there are doubled. Monotonous, overlong, and just not nearly scary enough, this is a would be horror epic that only succeeds when it’s actually setting the stage for its story. The first act is actually pretty solid, but with about two hours to go after that, things go very much downhill. Opening this week, it’ll undoubtedly make a ton of money. However, it’s just not a very good movie. Picking up 27 years after the last one, the members of the Losers Club have grown up into troubled adults and moved far away from the town of Derry (with one exception...
- 9/4/2019
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
Bill Hader joked that his It co-star Finn Wolfhard is the most powerful person in Hollywood when he stopped by The Tonight Show.
The actors star as the adult and teenage versions, respectively, of Richie Tozier in It: Chapter Two. Wolfhard played the character in 2017's Chapter One, but both he and Hader appear in the sequel.
"When they asked them, 'Who do you want to play you in the sequel?' cause they all grow up, he said he wanted me to," Hader said about Wolfhard. "My agent sent me a little clip of him saying that and I was ...
The actors star as the adult and teenage versions, respectively, of Richie Tozier in It: Chapter Two. Wolfhard played the character in 2017's Chapter One, but both he and Hader appear in the sequel.
"When they asked them, 'Who do you want to play you in the sequel?' cause they all grow up, he said he wanted me to," Hader said about Wolfhard. "My agent sent me a little clip of him saying that and I was ...
Bill Hader joked that his It co-star Finn Wolfhard is the most powerful person in Hollywood when he stopped by The Tonight Show.
The actors star as the adult and teenage versions, respectively, of Richie Tozier in It: Chapter Two. Wolfhard played the character in 2017's Chapter One, but both he and Hader appear in the sequel.
"When they asked them, 'Who do you want to play you in the sequel?' cause they all grow up, he said he wanted me to," Hader said about Wolfhard. "My agent sent me a little clip of him saying that and I was ...
The actors star as the adult and teenage versions, respectively, of Richie Tozier in It: Chapter Two. Wolfhard played the character in 2017's Chapter One, but both he and Hader appear in the sequel.
"When they asked them, 'Who do you want to play you in the sequel?' cause they all grow up, he said he wanted me to," Hader said about Wolfhard. "My agent sent me a little clip of him saying that and I was ...
Updated tracking has New Line’s It: Chapter Two opening between $90 million-$100 million, just behind the previous chapter’s all-time horror and September debut record of $123.4M. However, Fandango reports that advance ticket sales for the Stephen King sequel are the online ticketer’s best ever for a horror pic, outstripping It, Jordan Peele’s Us, last year’s Halloween and The Nun.
Best demos for It: Chapter Two are younger males followed by younger females, similar to the 2017 pic, with solid interest across the board.
In addition, a recent Fandango survey of more than 1,000 chose It: Chapter Two as the top film they want to see for the September through end-of-November period, followed by Warner Bros’ Joker.
Below are the results of the survey in full:
Top Ten Most Anticipated Fall Movies
It: Chapter Two
Joker
Frozen II
Terminator: Dark Fate
Zombieland: Double Tap
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
A...
Best demos for It: Chapter Two are younger males followed by younger females, similar to the 2017 pic, with solid interest across the board.
In addition, a recent Fandango survey of more than 1,000 chose It: Chapter Two as the top film they want to see for the September through end-of-November period, followed by Warner Bros’ Joker.
Below are the results of the survey in full:
Top Ten Most Anticipated Fall Movies
It: Chapter Two
Joker
Frozen II
Terminator: Dark Fate
Zombieland: Double Tap
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
A...
- 9/3/2019
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Pennywise and the Losers' Club return for a rematch in the ambitious but deeply flawed It Chapter Two.
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We are in a new age of Stephen King adaptations, with dozens of novels and stories from the legendary author being developed for the screen as either movies, limited series or ongoing TV shows. One of the best to come out of the gate so far was director/co-writer Andy Muschietti’s 2017 adaptation of King’s mammoth It -- or rather, half of King’s 1,100-page doorstop. The book deals with a group of misfit friends who confront an ancient, evil creature in the town of Derry, Maine, both as 12-year-old children and then, 27 years later, as adults, with King’s book relating the two stories parallel to each other.
Like the first half of the well-regarded two-part 1990 TV miniseries, the movie focused exclusively on the so-called Losers' Club as kids,...
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We are in a new age of Stephen King adaptations, with dozens of novels and stories from the legendary author being developed for the screen as either movies, limited series or ongoing TV shows. One of the best to come out of the gate so far was director/co-writer Andy Muschietti’s 2017 adaptation of King’s mammoth It -- or rather, half of King’s 1,100-page doorstop. The book deals with a group of misfit friends who confront an ancient, evil creature in the town of Derry, Maine, both as 12-year-old children and then, 27 years later, as adults, with King’s book relating the two stories parallel to each other.
Like the first half of the well-regarded two-part 1990 TV miniseries, the movie focused exclusively on the so-called Losers' Club as kids,...
- 9/2/2019
- Den of Geek
The release of It: Chapter Two is only days away, and despite some mixed early reviews, the sequel promises to be one of the biggest movies of the year. The pic’s been gearing up for its launch with several excellent trailers in recent weeks, the latest of which you can catch above, as well as more unusual rumored crossovers with Fortnite. Now, however, we have a series of character posters pairing the younger and older versions of the Losers’ Club, with the former framed by Pennywise’s balloons.
Of the seven Losers’ Club members, we get James McAvoy as the adult Bill Denbrough, now a successful novelist, and Jaeden Martell as his 1989 self, who had to deal with the trauma of losing brother Georgie to Pennywise. Next is Jessica Chastain as the older Beverly Marsh, building on the part played so notably by Sophia Lillis in It. By the film’s present day setting,...
Of the seven Losers’ Club members, we get James McAvoy as the adult Bill Denbrough, now a successful novelist, and Jaeden Martell as his 1989 self, who had to deal with the trauma of losing brother Georgie to Pennywise. Next is Jessica Chastain as the older Beverly Marsh, building on the part played so notably by Sophia Lillis in It. By the film’s present day setting,...
- 9/2/2019
- by Jessica James
- We Got This Covered
Pennywise returns in just two weeks and Warner Bros. has started hanging banners in theaters across the country that juxtapose the kid and adult versions of the Losers’ Club. Below are four banners, courtesy of Imp Awards, that show Oscar nominee Jessica Chastain as Beverly Marsh, James McAvoy as Bill Denbrough, Bill Hader as Richie Tozier, Isaiah Mustafa as Mike […]...
- 8/24/2019
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
David Crow Aug 30, 2019
Summer is over and awards season is right around the corner. Here are the movies to look forward to in Fall 2019.
Summer is officially over. I know, I know, you might still have some grilling to do, or the kids haven’t yet gone back to school; even scientists will tell you, technically, autumn doesn’t begin for a few more weeks. But the days are already getting shorter, the weather is beginning to cool, and movies are in transition from blockbuster season to a seemingly endless awards one.
But that last bit should be happy tidings for moviegoers. Fall is a chance to recharge and cleanse the palate with some more adult-oriented fare while still enjoying big holiday entertainment for the whole family. Hollywood is gearing up to release what it considers to be its heavy-hitting dramas, starting with September’s major film festivals in Venice,...
Summer is over and awards season is right around the corner. Here are the movies to look forward to in Fall 2019.
Summer is officially over. I know, I know, you might still have some grilling to do, or the kids haven’t yet gone back to school; even scientists will tell you, technically, autumn doesn’t begin for a few more weeks. But the days are already getting shorter, the weather is beginning to cool, and movies are in transition from blockbuster season to a seemingly endless awards one.
But that last bit should be happy tidings for moviegoers. Fall is a chance to recharge and cleanse the palate with some more adult-oriented fare while still enjoying big holiday entertainment for the whole family. Hollywood is gearing up to release what it considers to be its heavy-hitting dramas, starting with September’s major film festivals in Venice,...
- 8/19/2019
- Den of Geek
The folks at USA Today just dropped a boatload of new, exclusive images from the most hotly-anticipated films for the remainder of 2019. Have a look at the horror movies highlighted below. It: Chapter Two (Sept. 6): The sequel to the hit Stephen King adaptation features Richie Tozier and the rest of the Losers […]
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- 8/16/2019
- by Josh Millican
- DreadCentral.com
I’ve got three new TV spots to share with you today for It: Chapter 2, and if you’re excited about this movie, you’re gonna enjoy these. One spot is called “Play a Game,” the other is called “It’s Starting Again,” and the third is a Korean spot. They all feature a good amount of creepy-ass new footage that’s gonna get you even more excited to see the film
The Korean spot actually features a little tease of the attack of the Paul Bunyan statue! In Stephen King’s novel, a young Richie Tozier has a memory of Derry’s Paul Bunyan statue coming to life and attacking him. Years later when he’s older, Pennywise takes the form of the statue and attacks him. I’m happy to see that this part of the story is bring brought to life!
There’s some other great footage...
The Korean spot actually features a little tease of the attack of the Paul Bunyan statue! In Stephen King’s novel, a young Richie Tozier has a memory of Derry’s Paul Bunyan statue coming to life and attacking him. Years later when he’s older, Pennywise takes the form of the statue and attacks him. I’m happy to see that this part of the story is bring brought to life!
There’s some other great footage...
- 8/6/2019
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
The new trailer for It: Chapter Two arrived today, and with it a lot more updates on the horror sequel. We’ve already heard from Jessica Chastain and the inclusion of more blood in the movie, while the reception to the preview so far has been overwhelmingly positive. Now, we’ve learnt that Bill Hader slipped in a tribute to John Carpenter’s The Thing as part of his role as the adult Richie Tozier in the film.
Speaking at a San Diego Comic-Con event, Hader admitted that one particularly notable piece of improvisation made it into the final cut. When recording additional dialogue for the sequel, he had to improvise different reactions to a so-far unknown (but likely pretty bizarre) scene and the actor went with the classic line from The Thing: “You’ve got to be fucking kidding.”
The line itself comes from the classic moment in...
Speaking at a San Diego Comic-Con event, Hader admitted that one particularly notable piece of improvisation made it into the final cut. When recording additional dialogue for the sequel, he had to improvise different reactions to a so-far unknown (but likely pretty bizarre) scene and the actor went with the classic line from The Thing: “You’ve got to be fucking kidding.”
The line itself comes from the classic moment in...
- 7/19/2019
- by Jessica James
- We Got This Covered
If I’m being honest, while there are many films still to come this year that I’m looking forward to, my anticipation for those titles pales in comparison to just how insanely hyped I am for Andy Muschietti’s It Chapter Two, which is due in theaters everywhere on September 6th. New Line Cinema broke records with the first film, and from what was shown during last night’s ScareDiego panel at Sdcc, this sequel is going to be printing money hand over foot this fall, guaranteed.
And just a side note: if there is any justice in this world, here’s hoping the Academy Awards show some well-deserved love to Bill Skarsgård next year for his portrayal of Pennywise, which is on a completely different level this time around. But I digress.
ScareDiego 2019 kicked off with host Conan O’Brien coming out to introduce the brand new trailer...
And just a side note: if there is any justice in this world, here’s hoping the Academy Awards show some well-deserved love to Bill Skarsgård next year for his portrayal of Pennywise, which is on a completely different level this time around. But I digress.
ScareDiego 2019 kicked off with host Conan O’Brien coming out to introduce the brand new trailer...
- 7/18/2019
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
In the second trailer for “It: Chapter Two,” the Losers Club, now adults, return to face the evil force that is Pennywise.
“Something happens to you when you leave this town, the farther away, the hazier it all gets,” says adult Mike in a voiceover. “But me, I never left. I remember all of it.”
The trailer shows the adult Losers Club gathering in Derry and hints at the various otherworldly and horrific events that happen in the book on which both films are based. The trailer also introduces Teach Grant as the adult Henry Bowers, who breaks out of a sanatorium to help Pennywise destroy the Losers Club.
Jessica Chastain (Beverly Marsh), Bill Hader (Richie Tozier), James McAvoy (Bill Denbrough), James Ransone (Eddie Kaspbrak), Andy Bean (Stanley Uris), Isaiah Mustafa (Mike Hanlon) and Jay Ryan (Ben Hanscom) star as the older versions of the Loser’s club children. Sophia Lillis,...
“Something happens to you when you leave this town, the farther away, the hazier it all gets,” says adult Mike in a voiceover. “But me, I never left. I remember all of it.”
The trailer shows the adult Losers Club gathering in Derry and hints at the various otherworldly and horrific events that happen in the book on which both films are based. The trailer also introduces Teach Grant as the adult Henry Bowers, who breaks out of a sanatorium to help Pennywise destroy the Losers Club.
Jessica Chastain (Beverly Marsh), Bill Hader (Richie Tozier), James McAvoy (Bill Denbrough), James Ransone (Eddie Kaspbrak), Andy Bean (Stanley Uris), Isaiah Mustafa (Mike Hanlon) and Jay Ryan (Ben Hanscom) star as the older versions of the Loser’s club children. Sophia Lillis,...
- 7/18/2019
- by BreAnna Bell
- Variety Film + TV
Warner Bros. isn’t making an official Comic-Con 2019 appearance this year, but the studio still had something for fans at Comic-Con 2019 event — a new trailer for “It Chapter Two” featuring James McAvoy’s Bill trapped in a very intense mirror-filled funhouse.
The trailer, first screened for fans Wednesday night at WB and New Line’s third annual “ScareDiego” event in downtown San Diego, gave a deeper look at the Losers Club 27 years after the horrors of “It.” There’s ominous voice over from Mike (Isaiah Mustafa), a dinnertime toast from Beverly (Jessica Chastain), and as you’ll see, Bill (James McAvoy) experiencing the absolute worst-ever carnival funhouse.
No, seriously, we are never going into a house of mirrors again. Ever.
Also Read: San Diego Comic-Con 2019: TV Is the King of This Con - But Will It Be a Long Reign?
“It Chapter Two,” takes place 27 years after the events of 2017’s monster hit,...
The trailer, first screened for fans Wednesday night at WB and New Line’s third annual “ScareDiego” event in downtown San Diego, gave a deeper look at the Losers Club 27 years after the horrors of “It.” There’s ominous voice over from Mike (Isaiah Mustafa), a dinnertime toast from Beverly (Jessica Chastain), and as you’ll see, Bill (James McAvoy) experiencing the absolute worst-ever carnival funhouse.
No, seriously, we are never going into a house of mirrors again. Ever.
Also Read: San Diego Comic-Con 2019: TV Is the King of This Con - But Will It Be a Long Reign?
“It Chapter Two,” takes place 27 years after the events of 2017’s monster hit,...
- 7/18/2019
- by Ross A. Lincoln
- The Wrap
David Crow Jul 17, 2019
Director Andy Muschietti discusses bringing together his adult Losers, a meaner Pennywise, and reimagining Stephen King for It Chapter Two.
When we catch up to Andy Muschietti, the director is deep in It Chapter Two post-production. Coming off a long day in-studio, where he listened to composer Benjamin Wallfisch’s latest Derry-centric terror be recorded, Muschietti is remarkably giddy about still living in that malevolent town after all these years. Derry has that effect on folks, as does Pennywise the Dancing Clown who rests beneath its streets.
Returning to Derry was never a question for the director or his sister and producer, Barbara Muschietti. As he makes clear in our conversation, he might have been cautious about expecting the chance to film the second half of Stephen King’s 1,200-page magnum opus on childhood and the scars it leaves, but he always intended to come back if a sequel was made.
Director Andy Muschietti discusses bringing together his adult Losers, a meaner Pennywise, and reimagining Stephen King for It Chapter Two.
When we catch up to Andy Muschietti, the director is deep in It Chapter Two post-production. Coming off a long day in-studio, where he listened to composer Benjamin Wallfisch’s latest Derry-centric terror be recorded, Muschietti is remarkably giddy about still living in that malevolent town after all these years. Derry has that effect on folks, as does Pennywise the Dancing Clown who rests beneath its streets.
Returning to Derry was never a question for the director or his sister and producer, Barbara Muschietti. As he makes clear in our conversation, he might have been cautious about expecting the chance to film the second half of Stephen King’s 1,200-page magnum opus on childhood and the scars it leaves, but he always intended to come back if a sequel was made.
- 7/8/2019
- Den of Geek
The Losers’ Club return to the town of Derry in the haunting new trailer for It Chapter 2, in theaters September 6th.
The trailer opens with Beverly Marsh (Jessica Chastain) visiting her childhood home, hoping to find her estranged father. Instead, she’s greeted by an elderly woman, Mrs. Kersh, who invites her inside for tea.
“You know what they say about Derry?” the woman tells her with a contorted smile. “No one who dies here ever really dies.” As Chastain scans pictures on the wall, she’s overcome with fear...
The trailer opens with Beverly Marsh (Jessica Chastain) visiting her childhood home, hoping to find her estranged father. Instead, she’s greeted by an elderly woman, Mrs. Kersh, who invites her inside for tea.
“You know what they say about Derry?” the woman tells her with a contorted smile. “No one who dies here ever really dies.” As Chastain scans pictures on the wall, she’s overcome with fear...
- 5/10/2019
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Pennywise is back and here to say hello to the Losers Club in the first teaser for “It: Chapter Two.”
Jessica Chastain’s Beverly is all grown up, and she’s returned to Derry to visit her childhood home. But in a chilling extended sequence, she finds the past waiting there for her, with a little old woman who appears to be possessed by that demonic clown.
“But you know what they say about Derry, no one who dies here ever really dies,” the woman says before a long, uncomfortable pause.
Also Read: Jessica Chastain Says 'It: Chapter Two' Has Bloodiest Scene in Horror Film History (Video)
“It: Chapter Two,” takes place 27 years after the events of last year’s monster hit, as the members of the “Losers Club” have all grown up and moved out of Derry… until a devastating phone call brings them all back.
The adult versions...
Jessica Chastain’s Beverly is all grown up, and she’s returned to Derry to visit her childhood home. But in a chilling extended sequence, she finds the past waiting there for her, with a little old woman who appears to be possessed by that demonic clown.
“But you know what they say about Derry, no one who dies here ever really dies,” the woman says before a long, uncomfortable pause.
Also Read: Jessica Chastain Says 'It: Chapter Two' Has Bloodiest Scene in Horror Film History (Video)
“It: Chapter Two,” takes place 27 years after the events of last year’s monster hit, as the members of the “Losers Club” have all grown up and moved out of Derry… until a devastating phone call brings them all back.
The adult versions...
- 5/9/2019
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
Pennywise and the Losers’ Club are back.
It’s been nearly three decades since the youngsters of Derry, Maine defeated the sewer-dwelling, shapeshifting demon known as Pennywise the Dancing Clown. Or so they thought. Warner Bros. and New Line unveiled new footage of “It: Chapter Two,” showcasing the band of misfits returning to their hometown 27 years later to take on the demonic force once again.
The trailer for the highly anticipated sequel to “It” begins with an adult Beverly Marsh (Jessica Chastain), returning to her childhood home, only to discover that an older lady now occupies her dad’s former house. She invites Beverly inside for tea and cookies.
“You know what they say about Derry. No one who dies here ever really dies,” the elderly woman tells Beverly before initiating a staring contest for the ages. “But tell me, how is it being back in Derry?”
An uneasy Beverly replies,...
It’s been nearly three decades since the youngsters of Derry, Maine defeated the sewer-dwelling, shapeshifting demon known as Pennywise the Dancing Clown. Or so they thought. Warner Bros. and New Line unveiled new footage of “It: Chapter Two,” showcasing the band of misfits returning to their hometown 27 years later to take on the demonic force once again.
The trailer for the highly anticipated sequel to “It” begins with an adult Beverly Marsh (Jessica Chastain), returning to her childhood home, only to discover that an older lady now occupies her dad’s former house. She invites Beverly inside for tea and cookies.
“You know what they say about Derry. No one who dies here ever really dies,” the elderly woman tells Beverly before initiating a staring contest for the ages. “But tell me, how is it being back in Derry?”
An uneasy Beverly replies,...
- 5/9/2019
- by Jordan Moreau and Rebecca Rubin
- Variety Film + TV
Horror fans and Stephen King junkies can finally rejoice! The new trailer for It: Chapter Two is now upon us. While the first teaser for It dropped in March 2017 – ahead of the film’s September release – it’s been a much longer wait this time around. We were recently treated to a promotional photo of James McAvoy as an adult Bill, but up until today, Warner Bros. Pictures opted to keep any footage under wraps.
That all changed this morning though, as the studio dropped a terrifying and tantalizing first look at the sequel, promising more of the same chills and thrills found in the original film. And though there’s not a ton to feast on here – this being only the first trailer and all – there’s certainly enough to whet our appetite for what’s looking to be another seriously scary dose of nightmare fuel. In other words,...
That all changed this morning though, as the studio dropped a terrifying and tantalizing first look at the sequel, promising more of the same chills and thrills found in the original film. And though there’s not a ton to feast on here – this being only the first trailer and all – there’s certainly enough to whet our appetite for what’s looking to be another seriously scary dose of nightmare fuel. In other words,...
- 5/9/2019
- by Shaan Joshi
- We Got This Covered
Have you been eagerly awaiting the first trailer for It: Chapter Two? Thankfully, you won’t have to wait much longer. Even though the first teaser for It hit the web back in March 2017 – ahead of the film’s September release – horror fans and Stephen King junkies have had to wait much longer this time around. True, Warner Bros. Pictures recently released a promotional photo of James McAvoy as an adult Bill, but they’ve kept any and all footage under wraps.
That’s all about to change, though. It’s now been confirmed that the first look for It: Chapter Two will be dropping on Thursday, May 9th, and as ComicBook.com reports, Warner Bros. has released a brand new countdown clock, which is counting down the time until the trailer arrives.
As expected, the countdown – which is actually a link to the YouTube URL where the video will...
That’s all about to change, though. It’s now been confirmed that the first look for It: Chapter Two will be dropping on Thursday, May 9th, and as ComicBook.com reports, Warner Bros. has released a brand new countdown clock, which is counting down the time until the trailer arrives.
As expected, the countdown – which is actually a link to the YouTube URL where the video will...
- 5/8/2019
- by Shaan Joshi
- We Got This Covered
If you’ll recall, the first trailer for 2017’s It was released in the March before the film’s September premiere, leading many to think that It: Chapter Two would’ve got the same treatment by now. However, we’re still without any footage to feast on, and while the wait to lay eyes on the sequel has been a long one, it appears that it’s almost over now.
Just last week, producer Barbara Muschietti promised that the first trailer was on the way and today, we can confirm that she wasn’t lying. Thanks to a billboard spotted in Times Square in New York City, it’s been revealed that the preview will float online this Thursday.
Exactly what it’ll show or how long it will run for remains unknown, but some footage from Pennywise’s next outing was recently screened for attendees at CinemaCon, with the...
Just last week, producer Barbara Muschietti promised that the first trailer was on the way and today, we can confirm that she wasn’t lying. Thanks to a billboard spotted in Times Square in New York City, it’s been revealed that the preview will float online this Thursday.
Exactly what it’ll show or how long it will run for remains unknown, but some footage from Pennywise’s next outing was recently screened for attendees at CinemaCon, with the...
- 5/6/2019
- by Matt Joseph
- We Got This Covered
Seeing how the first trailer for 2017’s It was released in the March before the film’s September debut, most of us really thought that It: Chapter Two would’ve got the same treatment by now. Nonetheless, it looks like we’ll be moving into May without seeing any footage from the upcoming horror sequel. For what it’s worth, however, producer Barbara Muschietti at least seems aware how anxious people are for the big reveal.
In a recent Instagram post, Barbara shared a photo of director Andy Muschietti and actor Javier Botet, along with the following caption:
“@andy_muschietti and @jbotet also waiting for the trailer. I swear, it’s coming.”
While Muschietti didn’t offer any clues as to when it might be coming, it certainly sounds like the trailer could be just around the corner. Already, some footage from Pennywise’s next outing has screened to attendees at CinemaCon,...
In a recent Instagram post, Barbara shared a photo of director Andy Muschietti and actor Javier Botet, along with the following caption:
“@andy_muschietti and @jbotet also waiting for the trailer. I swear, it’s coming.”
While Muschietti didn’t offer any clues as to when it might be coming, it certainly sounds like the trailer could be just around the corner. Already, some footage from Pennywise’s next outing has screened to attendees at CinemaCon,...
- 4/30/2019
- by David Pountain
- We Got This Covered
Over the weekend, James McAvoy celebrated 40 years on this planet, and to mark the occasion, It: Chapter Two director Andy Muschietti took to Instagram with a belated message for the star.
The post consists of a photo of the Glass and X-Men actor, who assumes the role of Bill Denbrough in Muschietti’s highly anticipated follow-up to 2017’s It. In the caption, the filmmaker offered a quick tease of what to expect from the stuttering Losers Club leader now that he’s all grown up:
“And a happy belated birthday to the great [James McAvoy] who will thrust his f-f-fists against anything that moves in September 6”
While all of the young heroes from the first It are expected to reprise their roles for the sequel, Chapter Two will primarily focus on their older counterparts, as the story jumps 27 years into the future. The new line-up consists of McAvoy as Bill, Jessica Chastain as Beverly Marsh,...
The post consists of a photo of the Glass and X-Men actor, who assumes the role of Bill Denbrough in Muschietti’s highly anticipated follow-up to 2017’s It. In the caption, the filmmaker offered a quick tease of what to expect from the stuttering Losers Club leader now that he’s all grown up:
“And a happy belated birthday to the great [James McAvoy] who will thrust his f-f-fists against anything that moves in September 6”
While all of the young heroes from the first It are expected to reprise their roles for the sequel, Chapter Two will primarily focus on their older counterparts, as the story jumps 27 years into the future. The new line-up consists of McAvoy as Bill, Jessica Chastain as Beverly Marsh,...
- 4/22/2019
- by David Pountain
- We Got This Covered
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