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BecauseItis coming back, after all this time.”
“Enjoy this exclusive look… if you might.”
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“Itis a horror movie, but it’s not only that,” Muschietti told the audience beforehand.
“It’s a story of love and friendship and a lot of other beautiful emotions.
The shot opens on a summer afternoon.
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A forest of emerald leaves.
And five white blotches standing on a cliff.
These are happier times, though.
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They spit over the side, trying to gauge how long the drop really is.
Soon, they’re quarreling over who is going to be the first to take the leap.
“I’ll go,” says a voice from behind them.
It’s Bev Marsh (Sophia Lillis), the tomboy with the scarlet hair.
She parks her bike and removes her sundress in seemingly one motion.
The boys are dumbstruck.
She’s not showing anything that a bathing suit wouldn’t reveal, but still…
The boys would probably fall backward off that cliff if they had to look at her a moment longer.
But they can’t, because she’s rushing past them, not hesitating.
Then she’s in mid-air, legs pedaling nothingness as she plummets fearlessly into the deep.
“Holy st, we just got showed up by a girl,” one of them snaps.
Stealing looks at beautiful Bev, who pretends not to notice.
Respect for their friend finally overwhelms their hormones, and the boys stop leering.
“I first moved here, I didn’t have anybody I knew.
So I just started spending time at the library.”
“You went to the library…on purpose?”
There are newspaper clippings about an Iron Works explosion that claimed scores of lives.
“Why is it all murders and missing kids,” one of them asks.
“Derry’s not like any town I’ve ever been in before,” Ben answers.
“You read that?”
“That’s just grown-ups.
Way worse,” Ben says.
“I’ve got more stuff if you want to see it…”
Stan shakes his head.
Outnumbered, Mike’s eyes search desperately for help.
What he sees is a clown, watching him from the treeline.
The clown waves a hand… but it’s not his hand.
It’s a child’s hand, ripped off at the elbow.
He can’t believe what he’s seeing.
Either they’re feeding off of It, or It is feeding off of their manic violence.
The boys become even more unhinged.
Henry reels back, stunned.
The bullies look across the stream to see the six Losers.
Bev is standing closest, shoulders back, breathing hard.
Braced for a fight.
“Nice throw,” Stan tells her.
He picks up another rock and hurls it across the stream.
“ROCK WAR!!!”
Richie, recovering from his hit, calls Bowers a “mullet-wearing ahole!”
as the bully recognizes defeat and chases after his friends.
“Thanks, guys, but you shouldn’t have done that.
He’ll be after you too now,” he says.
“Welcome to the Loser’s Club.”
The scene ends with the seven of them united as one.
The young actors were also on hand and spoke about what the term “Losers” meant to them.
“It’s cool to be part of a group,” Jacobs said.
“We all want people who relate to us.
But we all have our attributes that make us weird in the public view.
So we’re okay being called Losers, as long as we have each other.”
“Pennywise is one of the greatest monsters of all time,” Muschietti said.
A boy’s voice is heard.
“When you’re a kid, you think the universe revolves around you.
That you’ll always be protected and cared for.
Then, one day, you realize that’s not true,” the boy says.
There’s footage of Ben Hanscom being held down by the bullies near a bridge.
A car rolls by and slows down.
Inside is an older couple, both of them looking at this outrageous violence.
Then they roll away.
As the car grows smaller, Ben sees a single red balloon rise from the back seat.
It vanishes into the mouth of a storm drain.
“You don’t even know they’re getting closer.
Until it’s too late.”
In the blackness of the drain, two eyes glimmer.
Then a face emerges.
Pennywise the Dancing Clown.
He’s holding the boat.
“Here… " It whispers.
“Take it …”
Then we see the street again.
“All the bad things that happen in this town are because of one thing.
An evil thing,” Mike Hanlon says.
There’s rainwater covering the floor.
The basement is flooded.
A pair of amber eyes rise out of the black surface.
“If you come with me, you’ll float, too,” Georgie’s ghost says cheerfully.
Then we see a fogged over blue window.
Two orange glowing eyes stare from the face of the blurry clown.
“What happens when another Georgie goes missing?”
Bill asks his friends.
“Are we just going to pretend it didn’t happen, like everyone else in this town?
Or will we stick together.”
Richie Tozier enters a shadowy room.
It’s full of clown dolls.
One of them turns its face toward him as he passes.
At the center of the room stands an especially menacing one.
Then, it’s over.
