IT: Chapter 2 Casts Teach Grant As Adult Henry Bowers

It Chapter Two

With all the extremity of the grown - up Losers ' Club drift for next years’It : Chapter Two , the upcoming continuation has officially mold Teach Grant as the adult version of their archenemy Henry Bowers , as well as Jess Weixler as Bill Denbrough ’s wife , Audra Phillips . Bowers was believed to have died in the first movie , despitesurviving the initial Pennywise attacksas a tyke in Stephen King ’s novel , and this couch news finally puts the uncertainty of his fate to rest .

Set 27 yearsafter the events of the first film , It : Chapter Tworevisits Derry , Maine as it ’s chevy yet again by the child - eating puppet know as Pennywise the Dancing Clown , or simply It . Now , the original Losers ' Club - consisting of Bill Denbrough ( James McAvoy ) , Beverly Marsh ( Jessica Chastain ) , Richie Tozier ( Bill Hader ) , Mike Hanlon ( Isaiah Mustafa ) , Ben Hanscom ( Jay Ryan ) , Eddie Kaspbrak ( James Ransone ) , and Stanley Uris ( Andy Bean ) - reunite in parliamentary law to settle their musical score with Pennywise once and for all . Directed by Andy Muschietti and adapt for the covert by Gary Dauberman , It : Chapter Twois not only plagued by an interdimensional being , but a human menace as well .

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Now that the main characters have been formally confirm for the upcomingItsequel , Teach Grant join the cast of characters as the grownup Henry Bowers , while Jess Weixler connect as Bill ’s wife Audra Phillips , according toVariety . In the novel , Henry ( who was portrayed by Nicholas Hamilton in the first movie ) is serve time in Juniper Hill Asylum as an grownup , while Audra is first introduced in the second one-half of the story when the characters have all grow up . Both character eventually visit Derry after on in the story once the Losers have already start their respective journeys , but with very dissimilar motives .

Though this will be the first Stephen King adaptation that the two have starred in , Grant and Weixler have quite a bit experience in the horror genre . Grant has starred in pic and boob tube shows likeThe Tall Man , Leprechaun : Origins , andSupernatural , while Weixler is perhaps best known for her lead part in the horror movieTeeth .

Given that the first adjustment ofIttook some creative indecorum with King ’s original novel in fiat to consolidate the 1,138 - Sir Frederick Handley Page novel , it remains to be seen whether or not Henry ’s storyline will disagree importantly in the sequel . At the end of the first movie , he falls down a monolithic well , presumably to his death - so the detail of his survival will likely be a focal point in his story . Audra , on the other hand , ends up being thrust into the event of the storey by mere association .