Anyone who has seen the new adaptation of It(and based on the box office results, that's a fair number of people) knows that – spoiler alert in case you've yet to brave Pennywise's cackling machinations – it ends with Chapter One appearing beneath the title at the end, heralding the second film. And now Entertainment Weekly has dug up new details on what we suppose is a sequel, but is probably more accurately described as a continuation.
Stephen King's book famously follows the main characters, known as the Losers Club, both as kids and then as grown adults battling the terrifying menace. And while the second film will segue into focusing more on the adult versions of the group in today's world, there will still be time to check-in on the 1980s. "On the second movie, that dialogue between timelines will be more present," director Andy Muschietti tells EW. "If we’re telling the story of adults, we are going to have flashbacks that take us back to the ‘80s and inform the story in the present day."
And while the new movie doesn't quite have the official go order yet from Warner Bros. and New Line, that's surely only a matter of time (particularly given that record-smashing box office opening), with Muschietti intending to return to direct again. One of the director's plans is to tinker with the fate of one of the main characters, Mike Hanlon (Chosen Jacobs in the first film), who stays behind in the town of Derry to document the horror and keep an eye out for more, just in case. "My idea of Mike in the second movie is quite darker from the book," Muschietti says. "I want to make his character the one pivotal character who brings them all together, but staying in Derry took a toll with him. I want him to be a junkie actually. A librarian junkie. When the second movie starts, he’s a wreck."