James McAvoy explains how IT: Chapter 2 carnival scene came to be

August 19th 2019, 4:20pm

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

Director Andy Muschietti's adaptation of Stephen King's IT: CHAPTER TWO will be hitting a movie theater near you in just a few shorts weeks. And today we're hearing that the carnival scene from the upcoming film (see a new still of it above) came about after star James McAvoy felt that the movie was missing a vital story beat where adult Bill dealt with his guilt after his brother’s death.

McAvoy reveals:

We were missing a vital story beat for Bill where he dealt with his guilt that he caused his brother’s death. I said to Andy, “What can we do?’…and literally in 50 minutes, he invented a whole new sequence. It was never in the script, and it isn’t in the book. It’s brilliant.

Wow, so director Andy Muschietti came up with the whole new sequence in 50 minutes? That IS pretty damn impressive. Bet it will be amazing in IMAX. Will you be checking out Stephen King's IT: CHAPTER TWO in IMAX? Let us know below!

IT: CHAPTER TWO has snagged an R-rating via the MPAA for "disturbing violent content and bloody images throughout, pervasive language, and some crude sexual material." Box-office analysts predict the film could make as much as $150 million opening weekend.

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 James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain, Bill Hader, Isaiah Mustafa, Jay Ryan, James Ransone, and Andy Bean as the adult Loser's Club. 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. Andy 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.