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It Chapter Two (2019): The Losers’ Club, Memory and a Long Return to Derry

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It Chapter Two is most engaging when the reunited Losers’ Club feels like a group of people with unfinished history. Their jokes, awkward pauses and old attachments give the return to Derry an emotional purpose beyond another encounter with Pennywise. The film’s difficulty is sustaining that connection through an expansive sequence of individual fears and confrontations. Jessica Chastain, who plays adult Beverly Marsh, at Cannes on 17 May 2017. Event portrait, not a still from It Chapter Two. Photo: Georges Biard , CC BY-SA 3.0 . Display size adjusted; no new crop. Directed by Andy Muschietti and written by Gary Dauberman, this 2019 film continues the adaptation begun in It (2017). Stephen King’s official film listing records its theatrical release on 6 September 2019. It returns to the adult portion of King’s novel rather than treating the childhood story as a complete ending. The friends who left Derry have to come back Twenty-seven years after their childhood confrontation with...