It’s been eight years since It hit theaters, and with it, a whole new Losers Club. Based on Stephen King‘s classic 1986 novel, It: Chapter One and It: Chapter Two (released in 2019) marked the first screen adaptation of the work since the two-part ABC miniseries that aired in 1990. Since It remains one of King’s best-known novels, there was a ton of buzz surrounding who would play all seven kids in the big screen adaptations.
Well, the casting department for It: Chapter One did an incredible job. In fact, the seven stars went on to win Best On-Screen Team at the MTV Movie and TV Awards. Not only do the kids in this movie give phenomenal performances, each one of them has gone on to a have successful acting career. Only one or two of them were familiar faces prior to the film’s release in 2017. These days, it feels like the members of this Losers Club are everywhere. Bill Skarsgård (aka Pennywise the Clown) is currently the only cast member from the movies who is set to appear in HBO’s upcoming It: Welcome to Derry series, but the cast of It: Chapter One is still killing it outside (and sometimes inside) the Stephen King cinematic universe.
Here is what the kids of It: Chapter One are doing now.
Wyatt Oleff – Stan Uris
Credit: Warner Bros.
What Oleff appeared in several movies and TV shows before playing Stan Uris — most notably, he portrayed young Peter Quill in Guardians of the Galaxy and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. After It, however, Oleff started getting more leading roles. In 2020, he reunited with his It co-star, Sophia Lillis, when he played Stan Barber in the Netflix coming of age comedy I Am Not Okay With This. He then appeared in the movies Stay Awake and The Year Between before landing the role of Charlie opposite Jemima Kirke (Girls) in the Apple TV+ crime drama, City on Fire.
Most Recent Release: ‘Karate Kid: Legends’ (2025)
Oleff’s most recent project was Karate Kid: Legends, which serves as a continuation of the original 1984 Karate Kid movie and the Cobra Kai television series. The film stars Ben Wang (The Long Walk) as Li Fong, a young kung fu prodigy who studies with the revered Mr. Han (Jackie Chan) and Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio), the latter of whom was the boy in the original movie. Oleff plays Alan, Li’s tutor and friend in New York.
Jack Dylan Grazer – Eddie Kaspbrak
Credit: Warner Bros.
Jack Dylan Grazer played Eddie Kaspbrak just as his career was really gaining momentum. From 2017 to 2018, he portrayed young Alex Riley in the CBS sitcom Me, Myself & I. SNL alum Bobby Moynihan played the adult version of his character. In between It: Chapter One and Chapter Two, Grazer played the 12-year-old version of Timothée Chalamet’s (Dune) character in the heartbreaking Amazon drama Beautiful Boy. After Chapter Two, he scored the part of Freddy Freeman in Shazam!. In 2020, Grazer played Joey Chambliss in the thriller Don’t Tell a Soul opposite Rainn Wilson (The Office) and Fionn Whitehead (Dunkirk). That same year, he played Fraser Wilson in the HBO coming-of-age miniseries We Are Who We Are. He then voiced Alberto Scorfano in the animated film Luca, for which he received an Annie Award nomination for Outstanding Achievement for Voice Acting in an Animated Feature.
Most Recent Release: ‘Friendship’ (2024)
After reprising the role of Freddy for Shazam! Fury of the Gods and voicing Thimbletack in the Roku original series The Spiderwick Chronicles, Grazer appeared in the dark comedy Friendship. Written and directed by Andrew DeYoung (Would It Kill You to Laugh?), Friendship stars Tim Robinson (Digman!) as marketing executive Craig Waterman, who forms an unlikely friendship with his neighbor, meteorologist Austin Carmichael (Paul Rudd). Grazer plays Craig’s son, Steven. Next up, Grazer is slated to star in the heist comedy 4 Kids Walk Into a Bank alongside Liam Neeson (Taken), based on the 2017 graphic novel of the same name by Matthew Rosenberg and Tyler Boss.
Jeremy Ray Taylor – Ben Hanscom
Credit: Warner Bros.
Jeremy Ray Taylor made his feature film debut in the sports drama 42 starring Chadwick Boseman (Black Panther). He continued to land small roles in big studio projects like Ant-Man and Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip before being cast as Ben Hanscom in It. That’s when he started getting more significant parts. He played Sonny Quinn in Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween. He also appeared in three episodes of Nickelodeon’s Are You Afraid of the Dark? reboot as Graham Raimi. In 2021, he played Bridger in the second season of the ABC crime drama Big Sky.
Most Recent Release: ‘London Calling’ (2024)
Recently, Taylor starred in the action comedy London Calling alongside Josh Duhamel (Transformers), Aidan Gillen (Game of Thrones), and Rick Hoffman (Suits). Directed by Allan Ungar (Bandit), the movie follows a criminal named Tommy Ward (Duhamel) who ends up teaching his new crime boss’s son, Julian (played by Taylor), how to become a hitman. Taylor followed up London Calling by stepping behind the camera to direct his first short film, the action drama Unarmed Divide. The short, which stars Jose Miguel Vasquez (The Liberator) and Ali Thomas (Bury Him), has already won Taylor Best New Impact Director for Mental Health at the TMIF Awards.
Finn Wolfhard – Richie Tozier
Credit: Warner Bros.
Finn Wolfhard was probably the most famous child star in It, having already appeared as Mike Wheeler in the first season of the Netflix breakout hit series Stranger Things. Playing Richie Tozier in It, however, did mark Wolfhard’s feature film debut. Since then, he’s been very busy. The same year It: Chapter Two came out, he played Young Boris Pavlikovsky in the film adaptation of The Goldfinch. Adult Boris was played by Aneurin Barnard (Dunkirk). Next, Wolfhard voiced Pugsley Addams in the animated movie The Addams Family before playing Miles Fairchild in the horror movie The Turning. He joined another popular franchise when he was cast as Trevor Spengler, the eldest grandchild of the original film’s Dr. Egon Spengler (Harold Ramis), in Ghostbusters: Afterlife. He’d reprise the role again in 2024 for Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire.
Most Recent Release: ‘The Legend of Ochi’ (2025)
After playing Ziggy in When You Finish Saving the World and voicing Candlewick in Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, Wolfhard teamed up with friend and former co-star Billy Bryk (Ghostbusters: Afterlife) to write, direct, and star in the horror comedy Hell of a Summer. The movie was nominated for the Midnight Madness People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival. All this time, Wolfhard has continued to play Mike Wheeler on Stranger Things — which returns for its fifth and final season this fall. Wolfhard’s most recent project was the A24 fantasy film The Legend of Ochi. Isaiah Saxon made his feature film debut writing and directing this movie, which stars Helena Zengel (News of the World) as a young girl who finds a wounded baby ochi and embarks on a journey to bring that little one home. Wolfhard plays Petro, Yuri’s adopted older brother. The cast also includes Willem Dafoe (Nosferatu) and Emily Watson (Dune: Prophecy).
Chosen Jacobs – Mike Hanlon
Credit: Warner Bros.
Chosen Jacobs is a singer and musician who got his start in a Hot Wheels commercial, followed by the 2016 short film Remnants. He played Will Grover in the CBS drama Hawaii Five-O before making his feature film debut as Mike Hanlon in It: Chapter One. In 2018, he played Wendell Deaver in Hulu’s Stephen King-inspired Castle Rock. After It: Chapter Two was released, Jacobs appeared in several episodes of the CBS series God Friended Me before playing Charlie Chambers in the Quibi crime drama When the Streetlights Go On. In 2022, he appeared in the Disney+ musical comedy Sneakerella, the Netflix romantic drama Purple Hearts, and Hulu’s supernatural teen comedy Darby and the Dead.
Most Recent Release: ‘The Hunting Wives’ (2025 – Present)
His most recent acting role has been in the Netflix drama The Hunting Wives, which was created by Hightown’s Rebecca Cutter based on May Cobb’s 2021 novel of the same name. The show stars Brittany Snow (X) as Sophie O’Neil, a woman from Massachusetts who moves to East Texas and gets entangled with the drama of local socialite, Margo Banks (Malin Akerman). Jacobs plays Jamie, who is friends with the son of another woman in Banks’s Hunting Wives social group. Next, Jacobs will next star in the teen romance Their Town alongside Daveed Diggs (Hamilton) and Ora Duplass, who will be making her feature film debut. The film was written by Mark Duplass (Creep) and directed by Katie Aselton (Magic Hour).
Sophia Lillis – Bev Marsh
Credit: Warner Bros.
Sophia Lillis’s career really took off after she played Bev Marsh in It: Chapter One. In 2018, she played young Camille Preaker opposite Amy Adams (Nightbitch) as adult Camille in the critically acclaimed HBO miniseries Sharp Objects. Next, she played the title role in Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase. In 2020, she played Beth Bledsoe opposite Paul Bettany (WandaVision) in the Amazon movie Uncle Frank and Gretel in the Osgood Perkins (Longlegs) dark fantasy film Gretel & Hansel. That same year, she starred as the telekinetic Sydney Novak in the series I Am Not Okay With This, where she reunited with fellow It alum, Wyatt Oleff.
Most Recent Release: ‘Trap House’ (2025)
Lillis had a busy 2023. She played the tiefling druid Doric in Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves and Maggie in the comedic drama The Adults. She also played Shelly Borden in Asteroid City, which was directed by Wes Anderson (The Phoenician Scheme). Recently, she completed production for the action movie Trap House, where a DEA agent and his partner must pursue their own teenage children, who have begun to rob drug cartels using information gleaned from their parents. The movie stars Dave Bautista (Guardians of the Galaxy) and Bobby Cannavale (The Watcher). Lillis is also set to appear in the HBO comedy The Chair Company and the Peacock thriller All Her Fault, where she stars opposite Sarah Snook (Succession) and Dakota Fanning (Ripley).
Jaeden Lieberher Martell – Bill Denbrough
Credit: Warner Bros.
Unlike his It costars, Jaeden Lieberher Martell had starred in a number of prominent movies before he was cast as Bill Denbrough. He made his feature film debut playing Oliver Bronstein opposite Melissa McCarthy (Nine Perfect Strangers) and Bill Murray (The Friend) in the 2014 comedy drama St. Vincent. He was nominated for a Critics’ Choice Award for the performance. He then appeared in Aloha, The Confirmation, The Book of Henry, and the critically acclaimed science fiction drama Midnight Special, where he starred opposite Michael Shannon (Boardwalk Empire). In between It: Chapter One and Chapter Two, he starred in the horror movie The Lodge, the drama Low Tide, and the fantasy coming-of-age movie The True Adventures of Wolfboy. After Chapter Two, he played Jacob Thrombey in the Rian Johnson (Looper) mystery Knives Out and Jacob Barber, a teenager accused of murder, in the Apple TV+ drama Defending Jacob.
Most Recent Release: ‘Our Hero, Balthazar’ (2025)
In 2022, Martell appeared in the comedy-drama Metal Lords. He also starred in the horror movie Mr. Harrigan’s Phone (based on a Stephen King short story) opposite the late, great Donald Sutherland (Pride and Prejudice). Last year, Martell starred in the post-apocalyptic action movie Arcadian alongside Nicolas Cage (Longlegs) and A24’s horror science fiction comedy Y2K. His most recent project was the comedic thriller Our Hero, Balthazar. In addition to being one of the producers for the film, Martell stars in the title role opposite Asa Butterfield (Sex Education). The film, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival earlier this year, is about a teenager who tries to get his crush’s attention by posting videos online about gun control, but soon finds himself being trolled by an individual he believes to be a mass shooter. Martell is set to star in two upcoming films, Dirty Finger Nails and Tunnels. Neither has a release date just yet.
Release Date
September 8, 2017
Runtime
135 minutes
Director
Andy Muschietti
Producers
David Katzenberg, Roy Lee, Seth Grahame-Smith, Bárbara Muschietti, Dan Lin
Franchise(s)
IT
You can view the original article HERE.
