Full SPOILERS ahead for It Chapter Two and Stephen King’s original book!
Watch our video breakdown of all the book vs. movie differences in the player above.
With It Chapter Two bringing the Losers’ Club saga to a close, let’s take a look at the film’s ending and how different it is from Stephen King’s sprawling 1100-plus page novel. Starting with …
The Final Battle
The main difference between the book and the movie is a structural one. In the novel, the action cuts back and forth between the young and old Losers’ Club as they battle Pennywise. Since we already saw the young Losers’ Club battle the titular dancing clown in 2017’s It, we obviously don’t get any of that cross-cutting in It Chapter Two, save for a quick image of young Bev in the Deadlights.
Source: IGN.com It Chapter Two: The Biggest Changes Made From the Book