One of the year`s biggest scary movies, It Chapter 2, comes out in September. The new It Chapter 2 trailer will arrive July 18 (the teaser embedded here is from May), but in the meantime New Line presented the movie`s director and cast to an eager audience at the studio`s third Scarediego event during San Diego Comic-Con 2019.The panel included a sneak peek at the new trailer before its release online. The trailer delivers plenty of scares, and more importantly, it frequently juxtaposes the young versions of the characters from It Chapter 1 with their old versions in Chapter 2. The original adaptation of It included both halves of the story, and the decision to split the young and adult versions into two separate movies was controversial--though it appears to have paid off.New Line also showed some Comic-Con exclusive footage, including the iconic scene in which the adult versions of the characters meet for the first time at the Chinese restaurant. The chemistry among the actors appears to work really well, and fans of the source material should recognize much of what happens in the scene--although there are some surprises as well. We won`t spoil them here, but the scene has some extra oomph that should surprise It book fans in addition to those who have only seen the adaptations.In another Comic-Con exclusive clip, James McAvoy--who plays the adult Bill--follows a young kid, who he`s chasing for unknown reasons, into a funhouse, where the clown Pennywise (once again portrayed by Bill Skarsgård) skulks around in the background before confronting Bill and the child. This scene is glimpsed in the trailer that will debut in the morning--when Pennywise drags his inhumanly long tongue against the glass of the funhouse maze. In the longer version shown at Comic-Con, the clown bashes his face against the glass over and over while Bill attempts fruitlessly to rescue the kid. Pennywise eventually breaks through the glass, and the clip ended just as the creature`s rows of ...
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