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It Chapter Two is a 2019 American supernatural horror drama film and the sequel to the 2017 film It. Both films are based on the 1986 novel It by Stephen King. The sequel film is based on the second half of the novel and is directed by Andy Muschietti and written by Gary Dauberman. Set in 2016, 27 years after the events from 1988-1989 depicted in the first film, it stars Bill Skarsgård, who reprises his role as Pennywise. It also stars James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain, Bill Hader, Isaiah Mustafa, Jay Ryan, James Ransone, and Andy Bean, who portray the adult versions of The Losers Club, while Jaeden Lieberher, Sophia Lillis, Finn Wolfhard, Chosen Jacobs, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Jack Dylan Grazer, and Wyatt Oleff return from the first film as the younger Losers, respectively. The film is produced by New Line Cinema, Vertigo Entertainment, and Rideback and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.

Talks for an It sequel began in February 2016, when Muschietti revealed the plan to get production underway. By September 2017, New Line Cinema announced that the sequel would be released in September 2019, with Dauberman writing the script, and Muschietti expected to direct the film. Principal photography on the film began on June 19, 2018, at Pinewood Toronto Studios and on locations in and around Port Hope, Oshawa, and Toronto, Ontario, and wrapped on October 31, 2018.

Produced by New Line Cinema, the film is scheduled to be theatrically released in the United States by on September 6, 2019.