New Photos and Concept Art For Stephen King's IT Shows The Losers Club Looking for It's Lair
Thanks to EW, we have a collection of new photos and concept art to show you for the upcoming adaptation of Stephen King's IT. Pretty much all of them focus on the Losers Club searching for It's lair in the sewers.
The losers Club consists of Jaeden Lieberher (Midnight Special) as Bill Denbrough, Finn Wolfhard (Stranger Things) as Richie Tozier, Sophia Lillis as Beverly Marsh, Jack Dylan Grazer (Tales of Halloween) as Stan Uris, Wyatt Oleff (Guardians of the Galaxy) as Eddie Kaspbrak, Chosen Jacobs (Hawaii Five-0) as Mike Hanlon, Jeremy Ray Taylor (42) as Ben Hanscom. Then, of course, they are being terrorized by Bill Skarsgård as Pennywise the Clown.
The report offers a bit of information with each of the images that they shared. One of the interesting things they revealed is that Bill's little brother Georgie is never found in the movie after he's attacked by Pennywise when his boat falls into the sewage drain. In the book, he's found with his arm torn off, but in director Andrés Muschietti film… he’s not found at all.
That means his brother, nicknamed “Stuttering Bill” by the local bullies, is leading his fellow "Losers" not just on a mission of revenge against the shapeshifting evil that lives beneath their town. He’s on a quest to find his little brother – alive or dead – which means venturing into the subterranean lair of the nameless creature they call It.
Below you'll find some additional images with an explanation of each one.
This sequence of concept art reveals the descent. In the first frame, we see Bill with his friend Bev Marsh (Sophia Lillis), but in the finished film he's with different buddies. “He actually comes in with some of the Losers. Richie and Eddie. And they meet Ben in that scene," the director says.
That would be Richie Tozier (Stranger Things’ Finn Wolfhard), the class-clown of the group, and Eddie Kaspbrak (Jack Dylan Grazer), an asthmatic who’s the smallest (though not necessarily the weakest) of the friends. Ben Hanscom (Jeremy Ray Taylor, on the far right) becomes an important ally. All have been teased relentlessly. But down here — it'stheir time.
Back to the concept art, here we see Bill Denbrough and one of his friends descending that rope from the previous image into the sewers of Derry. (The filmmakers ended up losing the vest jacket look — too Marty McFly.)
The network of storm drains is littered with cast-off items – a doll, a single roller skate, a bouncing ball. This is more than trash. These are the remnants of other lost children whose fears have fed the beast beneath their twisted town. The deeper they go, the closer they get to It's hive.
“The final confrontation happens in the lair where Pennywise lives, a big cistern, a circular space that resembles a cooling tower,” Muschietti says. Bill may find what he’s looking for. And he may regret ever having searched.
I'm so pumped up for this movie! IT is my favorite Stephen King story and so excited to see how this adaptation turns out. So far, I like what I've seen! The movie comes out on September 8th!