Stephen Kg Calls ‘It Chapter Two’ Gay Character Surprise ‘Geni’ – IndieWire

Contents:

• THE ‘IT’ FILM SEQUEL WILL FEATURE THE BOOK’S GAY COUPLE, BUT DON’T GET TOO ATTACHED
• IT CHAPTER TWO GAY CHARACTERS: THE TE STORY BEHD HARROWG HOMOPHOBIC ATTACK
• IT: CHAPTER TWO’S GAY-BASHG SCENE EXPLOS A REAL-LIFE KILLG FOR A CHEAP SHOCK
• THE TRAGIC STORY OF THE GAY COUPLE ‘IT’ WAS BASED ON THE FATE OF CHARLIE HOWARD
• STEPHEN KG CHAMPNS ‘IT CHAPTER TWO’ GAY CHARACTER SURPRISE: ‘KD OF GENI’
• IT: CHAPTER 2 FEATUR A GAY UPLE BUT DON’T CELEBRATE JT YET
• IT'S GAY BASHG SCENE SERV NO PURPOSE EXCEPT AS PORN FOR HOMOPHOB
• IT: CHAPTER TWO'S VIC GAY HATE CRIME OPENG SCENE EXPLAED
• "IT: CHAPTER 2" ADDS NEW CAST MEMBER TAYLOR FREY AS GAY CHARACTER DON HAGERTY
• IT CHAPTER TWO & THE GAY COMMUNY

THE ‘IT’ FILM SEQUEL WILL FEATURE THE BOOK’S GAY COUPLE, BUT DON’T GET TOO ATTACHED

The good news is that the upg film sequel verg the book’s send half will rporate a gay uple troduced at the novel’s outset. The bad news is the uple gets gay bashed before one of them gets eaten by Pennywise, the Dancg Clown.

IT CHAPTER TWO GAY CHARACTERS: THE TE STORY BEHD HARROWG HOMOPHOBIC ATTACK

The gay uple om the origal novel will appear IT: Chapter Two. reports that actors Taylor Frey (who starred the gay edy G.

) and Xavier Dolan (who recently starred the film adaptatn of the gay nversn therapy drama Boy Erased) will play Don Hagarty and Adrian Mellon, a gay uple who attend a 1984 fair the homophobic town of Derry, Mae.

After the fair, Mellon, Hagarty’s unapologetilly gay and somewhat flamboyant boyiend, ref to back down om bulli. We’re not necsarily lookg forward to watchg gay characters get beaten up and eaten by a clown mon, but at least stays te to the book and somewhat mak up for the film’s first half pletely omtg three queer scen om the origal novel.

IT: CHAPTER TWO’S GAY-BASHG SCENE EXPLOS A REAL-LIFE KILLG FOR A CHEAP SHOCK

In that sectn, Eddie Kaspbrak — a clean-cut, possibly gay hypochondriac boy wh an overprotective, uptight mother — gets chased by a the clown the form of a lepro hobo vered maggots who repeatedly offers to blow Kaspbrak. Sce the monster feeds off of fear, Beverly suggts they all have sex to keep om beg too aaid, but the thor has sce said that he’d envisned the scene as one of bondg rather than a homoerotic pre-teen sewer gangbang. We n unrstand why the director cut the scen om the 2017 film, but are happy IT: Chapter Two will rtore the novel’s gay ntent nohels.

Even though ’ll ntue a problematic film trope of killg off queer characters, ’ll at least liver a portrayal of small-town homophobia ma manift the guise of a monic clown.

THE TRAGIC STORY OF THE GAY COUPLE ‘IT’ WAS BASED ON THE FATE OF CHARLIE HOWARD

How do you feel about the gay characters beg clud  IT: Chapter Two?

**WARNING IT CHAPTER TWO SPOILERS**What is the te story behd the homophobic attack IT Chapter Two?

In the film, bulli spot a gay uple together at a funfair Derry, and target them wh homophobic abe starts wh them hurlg sults at the uple, who try to walk away and ignore as well as possible. More The Losers Club havg dner IT Chapter Two (Image: Warner Bros)A 23-year-old lled Charlie Howard was walkg down the street wh another man, Roy Ogn, when three teenagers set upon chased them, shoutg homophobic sults at them, before they ught Charlie and threw him over the State Street Bridge to the Kendkeag Stream, spe him tellg them he uld not ped and pulled a fire alarm to alert thori, but Charlie had also suffered om a severe asthma attack, as the topsy later Losers Club werg fear IT Chapter Two (Image: Warner Bros)Stephen Kg is a notable rint of Bangor and wrote It only two years after the cint, showg how greatly affected him.

STEPHEN KG CHAMPNS ‘IT CHAPTER TWO’ GAY CHARACTER SURPRISE: ‘KD OF GENI’

Another moment where a homophobic attack is seen is Richie’s memori, when he reunts bulli forcg him to leave an ar due to his them of homophobia clearly affected Kg are ntued the adaptatn by Andr Mchietti. After the homophobic attack Derry, alerts Mike Hanlon to the reappearance of Pennywise, and he reassembl the Losers mt retrace their memori to try and work out how to kill Pennywise once and for Chapter Two is out cemas now Related articl IT Chapter Two: What is Pennywise the clown?

(He’s played the movie by wunrkd Québéis filmmaker and actor Xavier Dolan, well known to gay cephil and crics. ) People om Mae, pecially Bangor, Kg’s hometown, may regnize him stead as Charlie Howard, a 23-year-old asthmatic gay man who was beaten by three teenage boys the town the summer of 1984, before he was thrown off a bridge to a stream 15 feet below and drowned.

IT: CHAPTER 2 FEATUR A GAY UPLE BUT DON’T CELEBRATE JT YET

The explanatns—that was part of the origal source material, and that anti-gay hate crim still happen today, so was “important” to pict this particular one—suggt a half-baked unrstandg of what lls for different kds of vlence on screen. Y, as Mchietti says, anti-gay vlence remas “of relevance, ” and was a major moment the origal novel. The murr the book tak place the summer of 1985, one year after the event that spired , and the novel clus an extend scriptn of the victims, the teens, their motiv, and the police vtigatn that follows (“The guy was a u, but he wasn’t hurtg anyone, ” says a sympathetic district attorney), along wh a brief but evotive read of the town’s gay i.

In fact, some enterprisg fans of the novel have long surmised that Eddie is gay and love wh Richie (a dynamic played up the 1990 It miseri, which notably exclus the hate crime). In this versn, Richie has grown up to be a stand-up ic who mak sexist jok, but seems he is gay and love wh Eddie, a suggtn that grows somewhat lour the movie’s epilogue.

Regardls, what do say about this movie that feels fortable pictg every cshg blow and sperate cry for help om gay men as they’re beg bludgeoned but then reli on a retro, d treatment of s only apparently gay prcipal character, who never even gets the digny of sayg who he is?

IT'S GAY BASHG SCENE SERV NO PURPOSE EXCEPT AS PORN FOR HOMOPHOB

Watch what the filmmakers had to tell about Richie the vio Chapter Two ma text what had only been subtext Stephen Kg's origal book: wise-crackg Losers' Club member Richie Tozier is a gay man, and has romantic feelgs for his fellow Loser Eddie character's sexualy had been hted at the book, and over the years many fans theorized that he had more feelgs than jt iendship for Eddie.

IT: CHAPTER TWO'S VIC GAY HATE CRIME OPENG SCENE EXPLAED

The film's openg sequence picts a btal hate crime agast a gay uple, which sets the stage for how unwelg this Mae town is to the LGBTQ+ muny and the chillg effect such open homophobia and bigotry would have had on Richie, who cid to stay the closet even after movg away and fdg fame and fortune stand-up Har wanted the film to m fully to makg Richie gay or to not even brg up. "Har also poted out that the perds that the book was set were very different tim for gay characters than what morn dienc would expect this film to portray.

In this scene, set Derry's ar, young Richie (Fn Wolfhard) has homophobic slurs hurled at him by the bully Henry Bowers after a game of Street Fighter between Richie and Henry's . The 2017 and 2019 film remak IT Chapter 1 and IT Chapter 2 have sce proven to be beloved horror films (based on the book IT by genre master Stephen Kg), but did you know that the latter film’s (and book’s) brief gay uple storyle was actually based on a real cint? Unfortunately, Howard still faced homophobia om the Bangor muny at large.

One day, homophob even strangled his kten and left the body on his doorstep. Though the boys bragged about their gay bashg of Howard, the next day, the girls the r told police what happened and Ba, Ns and Mabry were arrted.

"IT: CHAPTER 2" ADDS NEW CAST MEMBER TAYLOR FREY AS GAY CHARACTER DON HAGERTY

Kg’s origal novel featured the btal murr of a young gay man, which was spired by the 1984 murr of Charlie Howard Bangor, Mae. The follow-up to 2017’s It will feature a gay uple on-screen, but sadly, the chanc of a happy endg are slim.

Alongsi the ma characters of the upg movie, Deadle revealed that the adaptatn of Stephen Kg’s horror novel will brg a gay uple om the book to life.

IT CHAPTER TWO & THE GAY COMMUNY

Taylor Frey, known for his rol The Carrie Diari and Gossip Girl, will play Don Hagarty, a young gay man a relatnship wh Adrian Mellon, played by Xavier Dolan, known for Tom at the Farm, Mommy and Boy Erased.

While visg a town fair Derry, Mae, they are harassed by a group of three homophobic teens.