The Losers Club had to wait 27 years and suffer several maladies before they encountered Pennywise the Dancing Clown again. Cinema audiences will have a comparatively shorter wait, with New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. announcing Monday (US time) that the IT sequel will drop on 6 September 2019.
The unsurprising news comes on the back of a number of records broken since the theatrical release earlier this month, including the title of the biggest horror film of all time, raking in $266.1 million domestically and $478.1 million globally to date says THR. In Australia, the film opened to a similarly large box office, partly thanks to an ingenious viral marketing campaign involving storm drains and red balloons.
Where the first film explored a group of early teens banding together to fight off an evil under the town of Derry, the tentatively titled IT: CHAPTER 2 will pick up 27 years as the estranged group slowly returns to their hometown to once again fight their fears. No casting has been announced yet, but the Internet is having a field day trying to do that on Hollywood’s behalf.
Stephen King’s original novel didn’t split the narrative into two distinct sections, instead choosing to weave the twin stories together as the adult Losers discovered fragments of their missing memories. It has already been reported that the cast of the original film will return in flashback scenes.
The sequel will be released in Australia from Roadshow Films. They are yet to confirm the local release date, but following the success of the simultaneous global release of Chapter 1, fingers crossed for the same pattern in 2019.
