The full trailer for director Andy Muschietti's adaptation of Stephen King's IT: CHAPTER TWO hit the other day and had all of us Pennywise fans delighted. And today we have word the movie has officially been slapped with an R rating via the MPPA for "disturbing violent content and bloody images throughout, pervasive language, and some crude sexual material."
For those keeping score at home, the original IT also received an R rating for "violence/horror, bloody images, and for language." Looks like the powers that be behind the scenes of this sequel are stepping up their game! Box-office analysts are predicting the film could make as much as $150 million opening weekend. Let's make that happen. In the meantime, here's the synopsis:
Twenty-seven years after the horrific events of the summer of 1989, It (Bill Skarsgård) returns. The Losers' Club fulfills their promises and returns to Derry to put an end to the shape-shifting beast once and for all.
Bill Skarsgård returns in the seminal role of Pennywise along with the above-mentioned cast of James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain, Bill Hader, Isaiah Mustafa, Jay Ryan, James Ransone, and Andy Bean. Reprising their roles as the original members of the Losers Club are Jaeden Lieberher, Wyatt Oleff, Sophia Lillis, Finn Wolfhard, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Chosen Jacobs, and Jack Dylan Grazer. Muschietti directs from a screenplay by Gary Dauberman based on the novel by Stephen King. Barbara Muschietti, Dan Lin, and Roy Lee produce while Marty Ewing, Seth Grahame-Smith, and David Katzenberg are the executive producers. IT CHAPTER TWO will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. on September 6, 2019.