In 2016 Derry, Maine, Don Hagarty witnesses his boyfriend Adrian Mellon being murdered by Pennywise after a gang of homophobic teenagers throw Adrian off a bridge while leaving a carnival. This convinces Mike Hanlon to call his childhood friends back to Derry and honor the promise they made in 1989 to kill It if it came back. While the others travel to Derry with only hazy memories and a sense of dread, Stanley Uris commits suicide in the bath soon after getting the call. The Losers meet for dinner at a Chinese restaurant, where Mike helps them remember It while they are tormented by hallucinations and learning of Stan’s suicide.

Richie Tozier and Eddie Kaspbrak consider leaving while Mike convinces Bill Denbrough, via a drug-induced vision, that the Shokopiwah Native American tribe’s Ritual of Chüd can stop It for good. After the others agree to perform the ritual, Beverly Marsh reveals her exposure to It’s Deadlights has her experience visions of the Losers’ deaths should they leave town without fulfilling their promise, Mike explains that the ritual requires seven personal items from their past. Meanwhile, Henry Bowers, having survived his apparent death in 1989, escapes from a mental institution with help from Pennywise. A little girl named Victoria is killed after It told her that he could remove a birthmark from her face.

Getting Stan’s shower cap in the Losers’ old clubhouse, Mike advises the others to find their artifacts by retracing their steps following their falling out after first entering Neibolt House. Beverly finds Ben Hanscom’s love letter at her old home, still believing Bill wrote it, and encounters It posing as Mrs. Kersh. Ben recalls his childhood encounter with It at high school before realizing his artifact is the yearbook page Beverly signed which he kept in his wallet. Both Richie and Eddie recall their own personal encounters with It while retrieving their artifacts: a game token from an abandoned arcade, and an inhaler. Pennywise taunts Richie before menacing Eddie in the guise of the Leper, only to flee when Eddie standing up to It causes the monster to shrink in size.

Bill finds his childhood bicycle “Silver” and recovers the paper boat from the storm drain where Georgie was killed while meeting a boy named Dean, who lives at his old house and hears voices from the shower drain. Bill regroups with the others before running off to the carnival after learning It is going after Dean, only to end up watching helplessly as It brutally devours the boy in front of him. Meanwhile, Henry unsuccessfully attempts to murder Eddie before attacking Mike, only to be killed by Richie. The Losers join a traumatized Bill at the Neibolt house, talking him out of facing It alone out of guilt.

The group descends into an underground cavern beneath the sewers, Mike providing a rock from the Losers’ fight with the Bowers Gang as they perform the ritual in the remains of the meteor that brought It to Earth ages ago. The ritual appeared to work in trapping the Deadlights in the sealing jar, but they escape after Pennywise emerges from the jar in a giant spider-like form. Pennywise pressures Mike into revealing that It killed those who previously performed the ritual, Mike assuring the others they have a better chance in facing their fears. It attacks the Losers and places Bill, Ben, and Beverly in nightmarish scenarios, which they escape once Bill lets go of his guilt over Georgie’s death and Beverly realizes Ben wrote the love letter. Richie gets caught in Its Deadlights while attempting to save Mike, and Eddie is fatally wounded after saving him. The Losers regroup and realize they can stop Pennywise by exploiting It’s subjection to having a physical form and their perception of It. Their taunting works in shrinking Pennywise into a helpless infant-sized form, killing It for good when Mike rips out Pennywise’s heart so he and the Losers can crush it. Eddie dies from his injuries, and the Losers are forced to leave him behind when It’s death causes a cave-in that destroys the Neibolt house.

The remaining Losers comfort a tearful Richie over losing Eddie, their ordeal’s end signified by the scars on their hands disappearing. The Losers part ways while retaining their memories, Ben and Beverly becoming a couple while Richie returns to the kissing bridge where he had once carved his and another’s initials, now revealed to be Eddie. Bill begins writing his new story before receiving a call from Mike as he leaves Derry, learning that Stan sent them all posthumous letters. Stan reveals in his letter that his suicide was actually a means to give his friends a fighting chance against It and asks the remaining Losers to live life to the fullest.

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The main cast of IT: Chapter 2 includes James McAvoy (X-Men franchise, Split) as Bill, Jessica Chastain (Crimson Peak, The Martian) as Beverly, Bill Hader (Barry, Trainwreck) as Richie, Jay Ryan (Beauty and the Beast) as Ben and James Ransone (Generation Kill) as Eddie, with Andy Bean (Here and Now) as Stanely Uris,Isaiah Mustafa as Mike, Teach Grant (Altered Carbon, Damnation) as Henry Bowers, Jess Weixler (The Son, Chained for Life) as Bill’s wife, Xavier Dolan (Boy Erased) as Adrian Mellon, Will Beinbrink (Queen of the South) as Tom Rogan and, of course, the return of Bill Skarsgård as the clown Pennywise.

The sequel will hit theaters on September 6th, 2019.

IT hit theaters in September of last year to the tune of $123.1 million on opening weekend, the highest opening weekend ever for a September release or horror film. It clocked in just $9 million behind Deadpool for the second-highest opening for an R-rated movie. The film earned over $700 million at the worldwide box office, making it the highest-grossing horror movie of all time.

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Joining her IT: Chapter 2 are James McAvoy as Bill, Bill Hader as Richie Tozier, Jay Ryan as Ben, Isaiah Mustafa as Mike, James Ransone as Eddie, and Andy Bean as Stanley Uris.

All of these actors make up the adult Loser Club and will be heading back to Derry, Maine to battle the evil Pennywise the Clown!

The It films are based on Stephen King’s 1986 novel, a great big slab of a book weaving together two time lines – one following seven kids in the late ’50s and the other concerned with the same group as grown-ups in the ’80s.

It Chapter 1 separated out the narratives, telling the story only of the kids in Derry, Maine – who call themselves The Losers Club – and who encounter an evil entity in the form of Pennywise the dancing clown, a monster who pops up roughly every 27 years (usually during a time of violence) and eats kids.

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The polaroid’s show the adult Loser Club members coming together with the children of the Loser Club from the first film.  Most prominent are McAvoy, Chastain and Hader, who play the main Losers Club members, Bill, Beverly and Richie.  In one snap Chastain and McAvoy are holding up their characters name cards indicating the photos were taken at a read-through of the film’s script prior to principal photography.

Another featured cast member is Isaiah Mustafa who plays older Mike Hanlon, while James Ransome, who portrays older Eddie, appears to be in another picture.

In one picture McAvoy is with two of the younger Losers club actors from the first film; younger Bill star Jaeden Lieberher and younger Eddie actor Jack Dylan Grazer.

Photo courtesy of Reddit.

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The first film, which hit theaters in September 2017 and became the highest grossing horror film of all time , has kept fans guessing from the moment it was released on who would be playing the Loser Club children as adults and that question has finally been answered.

GotchaMovies would like to introduce you to the adult Loser Club:

James McAvoy (X-Men, Wanted, Split) is Bill Denbrough

Young Bill: The leader of the Losers’ Club whose stutter sometimes masks what a brave, loyal, and noble friend he is to those who look to him for guidance.

Adult Bill: The character Bill in the second half of Stephen King’s IT has become a successful horror writer — crafting fictional tales of terror while putting memories of his time with The Losers Club battling Pennywise behind him. His stutter is gone. Until he gets a phone call from Mike Hanlon. When the group comes back together, however, Bill once again takes his position as unofficial leader.

Jessica Chastain (Mama, Zero Dark Thirty) is Beverly Marsh

Young Beverly: The only girl with the Losers, whose battle with the evil clown in the sewers has nothing on her monstrous, abusive father.

Adult Beverly: Beverly is having a hard time fully escaping her abusive childhood as an adult but has become a successful fashion designer. She is trapped in a marriage to an abusive husband and when she receives Mike’s invite back to Derry, it winds up giving her the strength to start fighting back again and change her life.

Bill Hader (Saturday Night Live, HBO’s Barry) is Richie Tozier

Young Richie: The loudmouth joker of the Loser Club who helps lead the group to the demise of Pennywise in the sewers.  He helped “kill that F’ing clown”.

Adult Richie: A successful radio personality in Los Angeles known for his large collection of absurd and hilarious voices…and for his number of failed relationships.

Jay Ryan (CW’s Beauty & The Beast, Top of the Lake) is Ben Hanscom

Young Ben: The chubby, loner, New Kids on the Block loving, history kid who hides away in the library to avoid bullies (and learns all about Derry’s terrible history in the process).

Adult Ben: A successful, creative architect in Nebraska who lost all of that excess weight after taking up running.

James Ransone (Sinister, HBO’s The Wire) is Eddie Kaspbrak

Young Eddie: The small, skinny kid whose fear of the world including every possible illness has been instilled in him by an hypochondriac mother who is doing more harm than good.

Adult Eddie: The owner of a limousine company in Chicago, married to an overbearing woman with shades of his own mother, whose childhood fear of sickness and disease has only grown more stifling over the years.

Andy Bean is Stanley Uris

Young Stanley: The quiet but down to earth Jewish kid who has to balance preparing for his Bar Mitzvah with fighting the monster that wants to devour him. Extremely scared of art work in his father’s church.

Adult Stanley: A happily married accountant living in Atlanta, he takes a phone call from Mike Hanlon and tragedy comes his way.

Isaiah Mustafa is Mike Hanlon

Young Mike:  An African American homeschool student and outsider. Orphaned in a fire and raised by his stern grandfather, he is reluctant to take up the family trade as a butcher.

Adult Mike: The only member of the Losers’ Club to remain behind in Derry, he’s the town librarian and has dedicated his life to tracking the town’s evil history and waiting for It to return.

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