It: Chapter Two: Book vs. Movie

Andy Muschietti's It Chapter Two (2019) continues his adaptation of Stephen King's book It. The Losers' Club returns to Derry as adults, with James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain and Bill Hader among the returning friends.

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About the book and the movie
Book
It cover
Author
Stephen King
Year
1986
Pages
1168Buy book
Audiobook length
44 hr 55 minGet audiobook
Narrator
Steven Weber

A series of child murders brings seven outsiders together in Derry, Maine, where each encounters a creature that takes the shape of a private fear. Years later, a phone call summons the survivors back to the town they have largely forgotten. Moving between their childhood and adult lives, the book follows the friends as they recover the memories of what they faced and the promise they made.

Movie
It: Chapter Two poster
Director
Andy Muschietti
Writer
Gary Dauberman
Year
2019
Runtime
2 hr 49 minWatch on Amazon
Cast
James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain, Bill Hader, Bill Skarsgård
Genre
horror, LGBTQ-related, slasher, supernatural horror
IMDb
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Mike Hanlon has stayed in Derry while his childhood friends build lives elsewhere, until a new killing convinces him that Pennywise has returned. He calls the former Losers' Club home to honor their old pact. Reuniting as adults means confronting memories they have suppressed and searching for a way to face the creature before it separates them again.

Other adaptations of this book

  1. ItMovie · 2017
    Details
    It poster
    Director
    Andy Muschietti
    Writer
    Gary Dauberman, Chase Palmer, Cary Joji Fukunaga
    Year
    2017
    Runtime
    2 hr 15 min
    Cast
    Jaeden Martell, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Sophia Lillis, Finn Wolfhard

    Bill Denbrough refuses to stop looking for his little brother after the boy vanishes near a storm drain. During a summer in Derry, he and six other children discover that the frightening things they have seen are connected to the same predatory presence. With adults unwilling or unable to help, the friends follow its trail beneath their town.

  2. ItIt: Welcome to Derry · Series · 2025 · HBO, HBO Max
    Details
    It: Welcome to Derry poster
    Creator
    Andy Muschietti, Barbara Muschietti, Jason Fuchs
    Writer
    Barbara Muschietti, Brad Caleb Kane, Jason Fuchs, Andy Muschietti
    Year
    2025
    Episode
    1 hr 4 min
    Seasons
    1
    Episodes
    8
    Network
    HBO, HBO Max
    Cast
    Taylour Paige, Jovan Adepo, Chris Chalk, James Remar

    In 1962, a child's disappearance draws a group of Derry schoolchildren toward something the town's adults refuse to acknowledge. Meanwhile, serviceman Leroy Hanlon becomes involved in a military operation whose interest in Derry goes beyond its air base. The two investigations unfold amid racial hostility and a recurring violence that has shaped the town for generations.

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