Bowers also searches for the Losers and viciously attacks Eddie at the Losers' hotel, and then Mike at the library Henry nearly kills Mike, but Richie kills him before he has the chance.
Henry Bowers, who was arrested for killing his father, is freed from a mental hospital by It. The members' searches for these past items involve traumatizing encounters with It, mostly in the form of Pennywise Pennywise confronting Richie and telling him that he knows about his true sexuality, Beverly being attacked in her childhood home, Eddie being attacked by The Leper in a medicine shop's basement.
Mike explains that the ritual requires items from their past to be sacrificed. At the Derry Library, Mike shows Bill, via a drug-induced vision, that the Native American "Ritual of Chüd" can stop It for good. Meanwhile, It kills a young girl named Victoria at a baseball game after luring her into a trap. Richie and Eddie decide to leave until Beverly reveals that she has had psychic visions of their deaths if they fail to kill It. At a restaurant, Mike refreshes the Losers' memories before It itself reveals the news of Stanley's suicide to them. All of them travel back with hazy memories except for Stanley, who kills himself out of his fear of the creature. Mike Hanlon, the only member of the Losers Club who remained in Derry, calls the other members, Bill Denbrough, Ben Hanscom, Beverly Marsh, Richie Tozier, Eddie Kaspbrak, and Stanley Uris to honor the promise they made 27 years earlier to kill It if it came back. Twenty-seven years after its initial defeat, It returns to Derry, Maine, and kills a man named Adrian Mellon after he and his boyfriend are brutally assaulted by homophobic youths. However, the film was a box office success and grossed over $473 million worldwide.
The film received mixed reviews from critics, who praised its acting (particularly that of Skarsgård and Hader), production design, and themes but criticized its nearly three-hour runtime, pacing, and weaker scares compared to those of its predecessor. It Chapter Two premiered in Los Angeles on August 26, 2019, and was theatrically released in North America on September 6, 2019, in 2D, Dolby Cinema and IMAX. The film is produced by New Line Cinema, Double Dream, Vertigo Entertainment, and Rideback, and distributed by Warner Bros. Principal photography began on June 19, 2018, at Pinewood Toronto Studios and on locations in and around Port Hope, Oshawa, and Toronto and wrapped on October 31, 2018. By September 2017, New Line Cinema announced that the film would be released in September 2019, with Dauberman writing the script and Muschietti to direct. Talks for an It sequel began in February 2016. Set in 2016, 27 years after the events of It (2017), this film centers on the Losers Club as they reunite to destroy It once and for all, though their decades-long separation from one another means that they have mostly forgotten the terror they endured during their adolescence. It stars Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, Bill Hader, Isaiah Mustafa, Jay Ryan, James Ransone, Andy Bean, and Bill Skarsgard as Pennywise. The film is directed by Andy Muschietti, returning from the first film, with a screenplay by Gary Dauberman.
It Chapter Two is a 2019 American supernatural horror film and the second installment of the It film series based on the 1986 novel by Stephen King.