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It: Chapter Two director Andy Muschietti looks a little sheepish. The filmmaker is midway through shooting a scene for his sequel inside a library at the University of Toronto and someone has already spotted an Easter egg that links to Stephen King’sThe Shining.

“There’s a lot,” he says when asked about the subtle nods he has placed to the master of horror in the second part of his adaptation of King’s 1986 novel It.

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“Just take a look. In every corner there’s an Easter egg … I wasn’t in an Easter egg mode when I made the first one. I just wanted to make a movie. Now, I’m more relaxed. There might be too many,” he adds with a chuckle.

As a gaggle of journalists from around the world made their way through Wycliffe College on an unseasonably hot afternoon last September, students milled around unbeknownst that the follow-up to the world’s highest grossing horror film was shooting in their midst.

Muschietti, a life-long King fan who directed the 1989-set original, announced his return to helm the sequel almost immediately after the first film opened in 2017.