FILM 2153: IT CHAPTER TWO (2019)

TRIVIA: Bill Hader was unaware that Bill Skarsgård can actually move his eyes in two different directions. Hader asked Skarsgård what kind of editing was done to achieve the effect in the first movie. Skarsgård, in full costume and makeup, responded by saying "Oh, you mean this?" and doing it, causing Hader to freak out.

Bill Skarsgård (Pennywise) has stated that he had more fun on set during this movie because he was actually able to talk to and hang out with his adult co-stars. Skarsgård had minimal contact with his child co-stars in Chapter One so that they would be more genuinely scared of Pennywise once they saw him.

When adult Richie enters the abandoned theater, there is a shot where an old delapidated You've Got Mail poster is behind him. If you look closely, the torn parts of the poster spell out "IT".

A license plate on the wall above the owner of the antiques shop is "CQB 241" the same as the license plate in Christine (1983). The owner (who is played by Stephen King, the original author of both Christine and It) also asks for $300 for the bike, the same amount that George LeBay initially offers to sell the car for.

In the novel, Eddie ponders that he may have married Myra because she reminded him of his mother. In this film adaptation, the same actress, Molly Atkinson, portrays both Myra Kaspbrak (Eddie's wife) as well as Sonia Kaspbrak (Eddie's mother).

Xavier Dolan met director Andy Muschietti randomly and expressed interest about being in this film, having loved the first one. Dolan said "I'll do anything you want, be the door handle, the door knob, the curtain, whatever I can do in this film". He was later cast as Adrian Mellon.

Brandon Crane, who played young Ben in the 90s TV movie, has a small cameo as the businessman on a video call to the current old Ben.

The casting for the adult Losers Club was overwhelmingly praised mainly due to the physical resemblances to the child actors. One of the issues that some people had with the It (1990) miniseries was that most of the adult actors looked nothing like the child actors.

At one point, Richie makes a joke about Eddie's height to which Eddie responds "I'm five-nine.". Which is true since James Ransone is five-nine. But Ransone isn't the smallest male Loser. That would be James McAvoy who is five-seven, making him the second smallest Loser. The first is Jessica Chastain rounding out the group at five-four.

It (alongside Randall Flagg) is regarded as the most evil and popular of Stephen King's villains and an immense icon in horror. In 2006, Wizard Magazine ranked It as the 15th Greatest Villain of All Time.

CAMEO: Peter Bogdanovich: The director of the movie based on Bill's book.

DIRECTOR CAMEO: Andy Muschietti: Customer at the pharmacy where adult Eddie picks up his prescription at Keene's pharmacy, background left-hand side of the screen.

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