We now know exactly when Pennywise the Dancing Clown will emerge from the sewers to strike once again in IT: Chapter Two.
Since the Stephen King adaptation is now the most successful US horror movie of all time three weeks on from its release, Warner Bros is sticking with an end-of-summer date in releasing IT: Chapter Two on 6 September, 2019.
The Hollywood Reporter notes that WB is currently wrapping up a deal to bring back Gary Dauberman, one of the writers on the original, and director Andy Muschietti.
Muschietti has already been speaking about his plans for the sequel in press appearances for IT: Chapter One, particularly a decision to leave the parallel timelines from King's novel out of his movie.
Instead, he wanted the first film to solely focus on the young Losers' Club and allow the sequel to alternate between the child and adult incarnations of Pennywise's (Bill Skarsgård) victims.
"There will be a dialogue between the two timelines, which is something that I love from the book," he recently teased, "so it's not just the [Losers' Club as] adults, we're going to come back to 1989."
Jaeden Lieberher — who plays the Losers' Club leader Bill Denbrough — has already confirmed his own return, even offering some dream casting for the adult Bill.
When asked who he'd cast recently, the young star humbly admitted: "This is always a hard question. Maybe Ewan McGregor, possibly?"
Stephen King's IT is now playing in cinemas in the US and the UK. Watch a terrifying trailer below:
