On March 23, 2017, Benjamin Wallfisch was announced as the composer of It 's score. [260] [261] Wallfisch stated that Jerry Goldsmith, John Williams, Alan Silvestri, as well as Dave Grusin's composition for The Goonies (1985) were largely influential in the score of It, [262] as he felt so passionate about those "big thematic style of scoring", albeit at the same time wishing to go beyond the idea that it would be a purely orchestral and adventurous score. [263] According to Wallfisch, he had to develop a theme for Pennywise which included finding and creating music that could infect all the other melodies as there are several themes in the film but the Pennywise score is a very quiet and whispered childlike tune using very high strings. [264] Wallfisch spoke of Pennywise's second theme, inspired by Skarsgård's portrayal, [264] in which he used the old children's song " Oranges and Lemons", which had always disturbed him as a child: "We knew we wanted some kind of children's song to signify Pennywise's strange and demented inner monologue. I also very subtly use certain melodic fragments from it in other themes, for example the piano music that opens and closes the movie." [265] Release Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California hosted the world premiere showing of It. One of the main sets that we worked on one of them was an evil house. The evil house had three specific moments there's the exterior, there's the interior, and then the basement, where the well is where Pennywise accesses the sewers and the cisterns where his lair is I also wanted to have this spooky tree looming at the house so we decided to build it until a crew member found this tree, driving to the office here one morning. So we bought the tree from the owner after negotiating."

Trumbore, Dave (July 17, 2019). "Creepy New IT Chapter Two Poster Arrives Ahead of Tomorrow's Trailer". Collider. Archived from the original on August 19, 2019 . Retrieved August 11, 2019. a b c d e f "IT Character Profiles". Charnel House. June 28, 2016. Archived from the original on June 23, 2016 . Retrieved June 28, 2016. On September 25, 2017, New Line Cinema announced that the sequel would be released on September 6, 2019, [18] with Gary Dauberman [19] [20] writing the script and Andy Muschietti returning to direct. [21] Dauberman would later leave the project to write and direct Annabelle Comes Home, while Jason Fuchs was brought in as his replacement. [22] Casting [ edit ] Schedeen, Jesse (February 9, 2017). "It: How the Stephen King Remake Compares to the Original TV Miniseries". IGN . Retrieved March 31, 2017. a b Kit, Borys (June 2, 2016). "Stephen King's 'It' Adaptation Finds Its Pennywise the Clown (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on June 22, 2016 . Retrieved June 27, 2016.Jessica Chastain as Beverly "Bev" Marsh: The only female member of the Losers Club, who was abused physically and sexually by her father and bullied at school over false rumors of promiscuity. Beverly has become a successful fashion designer in New York City while enduring an abusive marriage to Tom Rogan, but later she divorces him and marries Ben. Hitt, Caitlyn (September 8, 2017). " 'It' star Wyatt Oleff on the Losers Club's battle with Pennywise, what sets the remake apart". The New York Daily News . Retrieved October 20, 2017. On July 8, 2016, Port Hope had undergone a number of changes to transform it into Derry; Port Hope Municipal hall is now Derry Public Library, The Port Hope Tourism Centre is now a City of Derry office, Ganaraska Financial is now Montgomery Financial, Gould's Shoes store front on Walton Street changed to a butcher shop, The Avanti Hair Design store front changed to Tony's Barber Shop, an empty storefront at 36 Walton Street changed to Reliance Cleaners, Queen Street Tattoo store front changed to Derry Scoop, a statue of Paul Bunyan was erected in Memorial Park, US flags now hang in place of Canadian flags downtown, and Port Hope Capitol Theatre had appeared to be showing Batman (1989) and Lethal Weapon 2 (1989), thus confirming the film's setting of 1989. [181] [182]

Benjamin Wallfisch (for It, Annabelle: Creation, Bitter Harvest, A Cure for Wellness, Mully, Blade Runner 2049, and Dunkirk) Campbell, Morganne (September 5, 2019). "Small-town Ontario community featured in 'It Chapter Two' ". Global News. Archived from the original on September 9, 2019 . Retrieved September 9, 2019. Moreno, EJ (July 16, 2017). " 'IT' Director Andres Muschietti Talks The Film's Hard "R"-Rating". Monkeys Fighting Robots . Retrieved July 20, 2017.

Wax, Alyse (July 20, 2017). "Stephen King's It Already Has a Sequel Planned". Syfy. Archived from the original on July 20, 2017 . Retrieved July 20, 2017. Filming concluded in early November 2018 after 86 days of production. [40] Post-production [ edit ]

Squires, John (September 10, 2018). "Javier Botet Has a Role in Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark So Get Ready for the Nightmares". Bloody Disgusting. Archived from the original on March 31, 2019 . Retrieved September 12, 2018. Rahman, Abid (September 6, 2017). " 'It': What the Critics Are Saying". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved October 10, 2017. Muschietti spoke of bringing certain cultural experience within the genre to It, in which he highlights his devotion to horror coming from international horror films and literature, to which he stated, [248] "there's other sides to my storytelling influences that comes from of course Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares and writers like Horacio Quiroga But you know, my love for horror comes from movies that were mainly English language." [248] Muschietti based his portrayal of bullying in It as an homage to personal experience in the '80s with bullies, through the pure cruelty of Henry Bowers, where he speaks of them being very mean and very expressionist in their art of bullying, which is an aspect he wanted to explore. [248] The sequence with Judith, the woman in the portrait whose form It assumes to terrify Stan, was based on Muschietti's experience with the paintings of Amedeo Modigliani, one of which hung in Muschietti's childhood home, and which he found frightening, interpreting Modigliani's stylisation as monstrous. [249] a b c White, James (June 2, 2016). "Stephen King's It finds a new Pennywise in Bill Skarsgard". Empire. Archived from the original on July 7, 2016 . Retrieved June 27, 2016. D'Alessandro, Anthony (May 16, 2018). "James Ransone & Andy Bean Join 'It Chapter Two' – Update". Deadline. Archived from the original on June 21, 2018 . Retrieved May 16, 2018.Production designer Claude Paré commented that apart from 29 Neibolt Street, that the other main component of Muschietti's It were both the sewers and the cistern, to which Muschietti and himself worked every morning for roughly three months observing, [218] looking at the plans and attempting to figure out what was the best pattern for themselves on stages [219] they had access to a rather precise stage, though having to make profit as much as they could, of what they had. [217] Paré discussed about knowing that Muschietti and himself had to have a culvert entrance in The Barrens, somewhere in or around Toronto. [217] Production designer Mara LePere-Schloop went to Bangor, Maine, to scope out locations including the Thomas Hill Standpipe, the land running alongside the Kenduskeag Stream that in It is called The Barrens, it was confirmed on March 31, 2015, and the Waterworks on the Penobscot River. [176] LePere-Schloop said during her tour that they were hoping to shoot some scenes in the city and possibly get some aerial shots, although currently the leading locations for the majority of filming for the movie are in Yonkers, New York, and in Upstate New York. [176] On May 31, 2016, Third Act Productions was confirmed to have applied to film interior and exterior scenes for It in the municipality of Port Hope, Ontario, with filming slated for various locations around the municipality from July 11, 2016, up until July 18, 2016. [177] Principal photography was confirmed to have begun in Toronto, with an original shooting schedule occurring from June 27 to September 6, 2016. [178] [179] [180]