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 have word from Stephen King himself that the final confrontation between The Loser's Club and the entity known as IT is going to be epic.
King took to Twitter to say:
IT CHAPTER 2: The final confrontation is epic.
I can only imagine that King is talking about The Ritual of Chud here. If you don't know what that is, read the book and you will see that it is an epic "mind battle" between a handful of The Loser's and IT out in something called the macroverse. It's pretty epic, yes. Bring it on!
IT: CHAPTER TWO just 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 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.