IT Chapter 2: How Richie’s Secret Comes from King’s Book
Full SPOILERS ahead for It Chapter Two and Stephen King's original book!
It Chapter Two made text what had only been subtext in Stephen King's original book: wise-cracking Losers' Club member Richie Tozier is a gay man, and has romantic feelings for his fellow Loser Eddie Kaspbrak.
The character's sexuality had been hinted at in the book, and over the years many fans theorized that he had more feelings than just friendship for Eddie. Though the movie makes Richie's sexual orientation and feelings for Eddie explicit, director Andy Muschietti and his sister, producer Barbara Muschietti, say this plot point is drawn directly from King's work.
Barbara Muschietti told IGN that there was one key Richie and Eddie moment from the book that stuck with her over the years: "The scene of Eddie's death, when Richie is saying goodbye, and caresses his cheek stuck with me for a good, what, 30 years. The way I interpreted it was that there was love there. I don't know if romantic, I don't know. But it feels totally natural that it would be unrequited love. To me, when Andy presented it as a possibility, it felt very natural."
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