“I did that so many times, and they kept bringing chairs…I don’t know what I did, but it kicked back on me or something. “I think I broke a small bone in my hand I didn’t realize it at the time,” Mustafa explains. Unfortunately, the scene had an unintended consequence. In Chapter Two’s Chinese restaurant scene, which was the adult cast’s first time filming together, Mustafa’s character had to repeatedly slam a chair into a table, as Pennywise was already haunting his old familiar foes. Hanlon, now the town librarian, has become consumed by Derry’s mythology in order to defeat the looming Pennywise (Bill Skarsgard) once and for all. In the concluding chapter to 2017’s critical and box office juggernaut, It, Mustafa plays adult Mike Hanlon, the lone member of the Losers’ Club who remains in Derry, Maine, and remembers the wrath of Pennywise 27 years earlier. “It crushed me, because I realized that this was going to be an uphill battle.”Įverything changed in June 2018 when Mustafa finally earned his first lead role in a blockbuster studio film: It: Chapter Two. Can you do it again?’ He said, ‘Hey, can I get a picture with you? My son is a big fan,'” Mustafa tells The Hollywood Reporter.
“I went in and read for the part with the director, and…as soon as I finished reading, he didn’t say, ‘Oh, great. 'It: Chapter Two' is scheduled for release on September 6, 2019.Mustafa once auditioned for a director (who shall remain nameless) whom he believed was genuinely interested in him for the role. That it wouldn't be so easy to get rid of, you know, of womanhood, that it was coming back for her." I collaborated there because I felt very attached to her hair and when she cut it, I felt that her hair should come back for her. "And then, the hair, for instance, with Beverly, that was actually a combined. "It was something that terrified Andy always, that print, and here you see it in the form of Judith. The scene wasn't in the novel - nor was it included in the 1990 mini-series starring Tim Curry as Pennywise - but the siblings took influence from their own lives to give the film their own twist.īarbara added: "For instance, our mom had a print of a Modigliani painting at home and actually, there's a bit of a precedence in Mama there Mama looks very Modigliani-esque. Referring to a scene in which a young Stan was terrorized by a woman from an old painting, Barbara said: "Stephen King, the first email he sent to Andy when he had seen the movie, the one fear he wrote back, he said, 'I love the woman in the painting, it scared the s**t out of me.' " Last year's 'It' took over $700 million worldwide at the cinema making it the highest-grossing horror film of all-time.Īnd the book's author King gave the flick his seal of approval by telling the movie's producer Barbara Muschietti - the sister of director Andy - that he was terrified by the changes made to his original story. Skarsgard is reprising his role as Pennywise and Muschietti is due to start filming the follow-up this summer in Toronto, Canada, from a script by Gary Dauberman. The group return to Derry, Maine, 27 years after their first battle with the murderous entity Pennywise following a devastating phone call and stop it from bringing death to the American town once again.
Isiah - who takes over as the adult Mike from Chosen Jacobs - joins Jay Ryan as Ben, James McAvoy as Bill, Bill Hader as Richie, Jessica Chastain as Beverly, James Ransone as Eddie and Andy Bean as Stan as the other adult members of the 'Losers Club'. Mike is a member of the 'Losers' Club' that defeated murderous creature Pennywise the Dancing Clown - played by Bill Skarsgard - in the 2017 fright-fest. The 'Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments' actor will portray the adult version of Mike Hanlon in the second part of director Andy Muschietti's acclaimed re-imagining of Stephen King's 1986 novel. Isaiah Mustafa has joined the cast of 'It: Chapter Two'.
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