New Details About IT: CHAPTER TWO Might Disappoint Fans Of The Stephen King Novel

New Details About IT: CHAPTER TWO Might Disappoint Fans Of The Stephen King Novel

IT is one of the best horror movies in recent memory and now the first details about the sequel - which will feature The Losers Club as adults - have been revealed. However, they won't please everyone...

By JoshWilding - Sep 13, 2017 04:09 AM EST
Filed Under: Horror
Source: Entertainment Weekly
It's always been the plan to adapt Stephen King's IT in two parts and it's thought that Chapter Two will be released in 2019. Andy Muschietti will be back at the helm and he's revealed in an interview with Entertainment Weekly that while the movie is going to take place in the here and now, the child actors will return in flashbacks which the filmmaker promises will "inform the story in the present day."

He adds that "they’re a very big part of the action" while sources tell the site that no decisions have been made about whether well-known actors or unknowns will be cast as the adult Losers Club. 

So far so good then but additional details may just disappoint fans of the books. Mike Hanlon was already sidelined in IT: Chapter One and now the plan is for the one member of the Losers who stays behind to be turned into a drug addict, a far cry from the novel where he was simply a librarian. 

"My idea of Mike in the second movie is quite darker from the book. "I want to make his character the one pivotal character who brings them all together, but staying in Derry took a toll with him. I want him to be a junkie actually. A librarian junkie. When the second movie starts, he’s a wreck. He’s not just the collector of knowledge of what Pennywise has been doing in Derry. He will bear the role of trying to figure out how to defeat him. Only way he can do that
is take drugs and alter his mind."
 
The filmmaker does have an explanation for this change, though, and it's roots are in the book. "It resonates with what the kids do when they go to the smokehouse in the Barrens. By inhaling these fumes from the fire they have visions of It, and the origin of It, and the falling fire in the sky that crashed into Derry millions of years ago. We’ve brought that to Mike, by the end of those 30 years Mike has figured out the Ritual of Chüd." It sounds like things will be getting as weird here! 
 
Finally, it's also been confirmed that Stan Uris [SPOILER ALERT] will commit suicide as an adult at the start of IT: Chapter Two, something which is faithful to the novel. That's it for now but things are definitely looking good for the sequel; we'll just have to wait and see how it improves on the novel's failings but also does justice to the parts fans are desperate to see play out on the big screen.
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bkmeijer2
bkmeijer2 - 9/13/2017, 4:47 AM
And why is that disappointing? I dont think that at all, especially when looking at andy's explaination
CyberBishop
CyberBishop - 9/13/2017, 5:06 AM
@malsemarcel - It's Josh.. Don't need to say any more about it. LOL
FrobisherSays
FrobisherSays - 9/13/2017, 5:11 AM
@malsemarcel - “An action-packed and epic start to the DC Films Universe, Batman v Superman will have you grinning from ear to ear from start to finish. The rest of 2016’s comic book movies will have a hard time topping this.” - Josh Wilding

Consider the source.
bkmeijer2
bkmeijer2 - 9/13/2017, 6:22 AM
@FrobisherSays - I love that it is even factual wrong. Man of steel was the dc films universe start
cbostont102
cbostont102 - 9/13/2017, 8:38 AM
@malsemarcel - #BoycottWilding
Invasion96
Invasion96 - 9/13/2017, 4:48 AM
I mean... why?
Darkknight2149
Darkknight2149 - 9/13/2017, 8:00 AM
@Invasion96 -
I'm pretty sure Andy Muschietti just explained why...
CWBNGAJEEPGUY85
CWBNGAJEEPGUY85 - 9/13/2017, 4:49 AM
I've never touched illegal drugs in my life, but you had better believe that if an alien shapeshifting clown terrorized me as a child, I'd be a junkie too!
cbostont102
cbostont102 - 9/13/2017, 8:39 AM
@CWBNGAJEEPGUY85 - I like how you specify "illegal" drugs as if the legal ones are less dangerous.
CWBNGAJEEPGUY85
CWBNGAJEEPGUY85 - 9/13/2017, 9:09 AM
@cbostont102 - sadly they aren't! But I've only been prescribed Vicodin once. I am a big chicken, so I will stick to Tylenol and ibuprofen
Supercat6376
Supercat6376 - 9/13/2017, 4:54 AM
Nothing with that sounds at all disappointing.
Vigor
Vigor - 9/13/2017, 4:55 AM
Reads article
Gets confused as to why the title doesn't match the contents
Suspects who the author is
Checks...
Says ah ha then goes on about day
IronGenesis
IronGenesis - 9/13/2017, 5:01 AM
They should cast the biggest most popular star possible for Stan. That would give the General Audience a wonderful "oh shi*t" moment when he offs himself.
GhostSurfer
GhostSurfer - 9/13/2017, 5:34 AM
@IronGenesis - cast JGL as adult Stan lol
Jaspion
Jaspion - 9/13/2017, 8:46 AM
@GhostSurfer - he doesn't look 40.
Get DiCaprio.
CrashOverride
CrashOverride - 9/13/2017, 1:29 PM
@IronGenesis - I thought maybe if he lost a little weight like green hornet days Seth Rogen would fit well
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