It: Chapter Two trailer provides first footage of Bill Hader, Jessica Chastain, and more in the grown-up Losers' Club

The losers are back.

Warner Bros. on Thursday released the first official trailer for It: Chapter Two, the horror sequel that picks up 27 years after the events of the original film. The members of the Losers' Club are all grown up now, with the new cast consisting of James McAvoy as Bill, Jessica Chastain as Beverly, Jay Ryan as Ben, Isaiah Mustafa as Mike, James Ransone as Eddie, and Bill Hader as Richie.

The kids had promised at the end of the original film to return to Derry should Pennywise ever re-emerge, and sure enough, he's back in this trailer. Most of the footage focuses on an extended sequence in which Beverly returns to the house where she grew up, only to slowly realize the old woman who lives there isn't what she appears.

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We then get a series of quick shots of the rest of the cast reuniting and returning to Derry, going back into those terrifying sewers in hopes of killing the clown from their childhoods for real this time.

Although Chapter Two is set to focus on the adult cast, the kids are also returning in flashback scenes, and we see a few shots of them in the new footage. After that long buildup in the beginning, we also get the return of Pennywise's clown form in all its horrifying glory.

The original It, which covered about half of Stephen King's novel, hit theaters in 2017 and was an instant phenomenon, becoming the highest-grossing horror film of all time with a worldwide gross $700 million. Chapter Two, the conclusion of this two-part adaptation from director Andy Muschietti, will float into theaters on Sept. 6. Brendan Morrow

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