Young Losers Club Will Return for IT Sequel. IT director Andy Muschietti says the sequel to the blockbuster horror thriller will feature significant flashbacks to the 1. The Losers Club. Based on Stephen Kings classic best seller, IT smashed records on its way to pulling in more than 1. Coming 2. 7 years after the first IT adaptation planted nightmares of Pennywise the Dancing Clown Tim Curry as a two part TV miniseries, Muschiettis version of IT differs from the original adaptation in that it only focused on half of Kings 1,1. The Losers Clubs members and their encounters with Pennywise Bill Skarsgard as kids. The TV miniseries, on the flip side, focused on both the child and adult versions of the outcasts. While plans for the IT sequel have been discussed and the film awaits its official greenlight from Warner Bros., Andy Muschietti and his producer sister, Barbara Muschietti, are already divulging details of the second chapter of IT  and luckily for fans of the actors who played the members of The Losers Club in the first film, theyll get to see them again to some degree in the sequel. In an interview with EW on Monday, Andy Muschietti revealed the news of the child actors return to the sequel, saying On the second movie, that dialogue between timelines will be more present. If were telling the story of adults, we are going to have flashbacks that take us back to the 8. The good thing for the young IT cast which includes Jaeden Lieberher Bill, Sophia Lillis Beverly, Finn Wolfhard Ritchie, Jeremy Ray Taylor Ben, Chosen Jacobs Mike, Wyatt Oleff Stanley and Jack Dylan Grazer Eddie is that their appearances will be more than brief cameos. Andy Muschietti says, in fact, Theyre a very big part of the action in the events that lead to the adult version of the characters. IT director Andy Muschietti confirms that the presentday sequel will flashback to The Losers Clubs lives during the 1980s. In our It spoiler review, we take a deeper dive into Andy Muschiettis Stephen King adaptation, which proves that studio horror can be pretty damn great. Per EW, the Losers Club cast have cherrypicked the Hollywood stars theyd like to see play their adult counterparts in It Chapter 2. HYx41iSeV3ahr7R67b4cqSo0.jpg' alt='The Losers Full Movie Part 1' title='The Losers Full Movie Part 1' />Safe. This movie tells about an excellent fighter who must deal with doublemission. He must rescue a 12yearold girl kidnapped by the Triads and find a good. On the downside, theyre all adolescents, which means the window to film them as the same age as they appear in the first IT is very short. That means while a sequel is definitely happening, it needs to go into production as soon as possible, says Barbara Muschietti. To read more from our Fall Movie Preview, pick up the new issue of Entertainment Weekly on stands Friday, or buy it here now. Dont forget to subscribe. With the second part of Stephen Kings IT taking place 27 years after the first film, who should play the adult versions of the main castShe tells EW The hope is well find the best way soon, because its also important for Andy to get flashbacks with the kids, who are growing very fast. They are an important component in the next film. While it appears that the Muschiettis need to jump right into production on the IT sequel, fans shouldnt have to fear that the film will suffer because of it. The filmmaking siblings clearly entered the project with the intent of making two films, so any creative decisions for chapter 2 wont be made haphazardly. And while it feels like a pressure situation to get the young cast back into production soon, the Muschiettis will have the comfort of doing so knowing that their young ensemble has incredible chemistry, which has been validated by the films stellar reviews and monster reception at the box office. If there will be any stumbling blocks, it will be the unenviable task of picking which actors will play the adult members of the Losers Club  since A listers are probably already vying for consideration to be a part of one of the bigger phenomenons to hit Hollywood in awhile. Source EWKey Release Dates. It-Movie-17.jpg' alt='The Losers Full Movie Part 1' title='The Losers Full Movie Part 1' />IT release date Sep 8, 2. Long Live the Losers ClubIn our Spoiler Reviews, we take a deep dive into a new release and get to the heart of what makes it tickand every story point is up for discussion. In this entry Andy Muschiettis It. How do you make a good Stephen King adaptation Thats apparently a hard question to answer, since there are far more bad King film adaptations than good. More often than not, it seems filmmakers only latch onto the Stephen King brand they figure if they make something that attempts to be scary and slap Kings name on it, the audience will come. Thats likely true, but the audience wont come back again. Last weekend, Andy Muschiettis big screen adaptation of Stephen Kings Itdefied expectations expectations that were already trending positively and took in the largest opening weekend at the box office in horror movie history. This success isnt just the result of the King name brand if it were, wed still be talking about the Dark Tower film adaptation instead of consigning it to the dust. The success of It is the result of supremely positive word of mouth. The trailers were edited well enough to drum up buzz, and then early reviews were overwhelmingly positive. The hype just kept on building. And thats because the movie is good. And more than that, its a good Stephen King adaptation. The Losers Club. The key ingredient to making a good Stephen King adaptation is to not just adapt Kings talent for creating horror, but also to realize he excels at creating memorable, believable characters. The job boils down to two things paying attention to how the real people around you behave and then telling the truth about what you see, King said. Its also important to remember that no one is the bad guy or the best friend or the whore with a heart of gold in real life in real life we each of us regard ourselves as the main character, the protagonist, the big cheese the camera is on us, baby. If you can bring this attitude into your fiction, you may not find it easier to create brilliant characters, but it will be harder for you to create the sort of one dimensional dopes that populate so much pop fiction. King instills quirks, and fears, and desires into his characters, both when he first introduces them and as the story is unfolding. Watch World Without End Putlocker here. Even minor characters who are destined for certain death are handled with love and care in Kings hands. This is the ingredient that so many literary snobs seem to overlook when they look down on King as just a fad author of pop fiction. Yes, he writes incredibly pulpy stories, but he populates them with living, breathing people. Andy Muschiettis adaptation of It gets that. Muschietti and screenwriters Chase Palmer, Cary Fukunaga and Gary Dauberman realize that the best way to make an audience afraid for a characters well being is to first make them care about that character. The 2. 01. 7 adaptation of It couldve botched this badly. For one thing, this is a big studio horror film, and studio horror tends to suck, for lack of a better word. Most great modern horror comes as the result of independent productions. A lesser film wouldve quickly nixed any real character development and gotten to the gory stuff. I can just picture in my head another, crappy version of this film where the evil Pennywise the Clown is in almost every scene and we barely know anything about the kids hes trying to kill. But It doesnt do that. It takes its time. One by one, it sets up the members of the Losers Club. Theres Bill Jaeden Lieberher, unable to fully express himself due to a stutter and still reeling from the disappearance of his kid brother Georgie. Then there are Bills friends Eddie Jack Dylan Grazer, the smallest member of the group the one who might be the most frail due to his many ailments Richie Finn Wolfhard, the kid who thinks hes so hilarious that he can never shut up and Stan Wyatt Oleff, the neat and proper member of the group and the one torn between hanging with his friends and studying for his bar mitzvah. Then there are the outsiders who slowly find their way into the inner circle of Bill and his friends. Lonely, overweight Ben Jeremy Ray Taylor, who has been putting together a history of the town of Derry, Maine home schooled Mike Chosen Jacobs, who might be even more of an outcast than the others because hes one of the lone black faces in town and Bev Sophia Lillis, a tough seeming girl who finds herself bullied by the mean girls at school and leered at by her abusive father. The early stages of It show us who all these kids are we see Mike hesitating to kill an animal at the family farm where he works Ben, alone in the library to avoid bullies Bev, who cuts off her ponytail after her lecherous father pays too much attention to it and most of all, we see Bill, struggling to come to terms with the potential death of his brother, Georgie. As far as Bills friends and parents are concerned, Georgie is dead. Hes dead just like all the other kids who have mysteriously gone missing in Derry are dead. But Bill holds out hope Georgies body was never found, so maybe, just maybe, hes still out there. Of course, hes not. As It opens, we learn the true tragic fate of Georgie. The boy goes out in the rain to sail a paper boat along the water running in the gutters. When the boat disappears down a sewer grate, its rescued by the unlikeliest of sources a clown, who is inexplicably lurking in the sewers. This clown is no circus performer, though its a monster that brutally butchers Georgie before feeding on him. With this disturbing opening scene, Muschietti is showing the audience hes not going to pull any punches. No one is safe here. And because the film takes the time to show us who these kids really are, we genuinely fear for their safety. Pennywise Lives. The 2. It is not the first time Kings tome of terror was adapted for the screen. The first screen the book made its way onto, though, was the small rather than the large. In 1. 99. 0, a miniseries adaptation of Kings book traumatized an entire generation of children who would grow up with a fear of clowns. The It miniseries got down with the clown through the now iconic performance of Tim Curry. Curry slipped into Pennywises baggy clown suit and proceeded to scare the ever loving shit out of everyone. Its a great performance, and its just about the only thing from the miniseries that really holds up.