Dream Casting The Losers Club From 'It' As Adults For The Sequel

10. Henry Bowers: Shia LaBeouf

Played by Nicholas Hamilton in Part I, the role of Henry Bowers is a small but important one. The leader of the group of bullies that torments the Loser’s Club and ultimately brings them together, Bowers is a truly evil character – and that’s saying something considering he’s in a movie starring a child-murdering clown.

When Part II picks up, if the film follows the novel, Bowers should be in a hospital for the criminally insane, taunted by Pennywise and recruited to kill the now-grown-up Loser’s Club. While this would be a small role, an actor like Shia LaBeouf would make for a great Bowers, and thus a great cameo in It: Part II. Playing twitchy, insane, and sadistic would be great fun for someone of LaBeouf’s talent, and to see LaBeouf in a horror movie as a very human horror would be a treat.

While it’s for the best that Part II would focus more on the Loser’s Club and their final showdown with Pennywise than get muddled up with bullying drama, it’s still essential that the film at least deal with Bowers. The best way to do this would be to get it over with quickly, highlighting the difference between the adults that the children became, and by making Bowers – played by LaBeouf – as memorable as possible in as short a time as necessary.