If you want to hear how the next Stephen King remake may be teased at the end of It: Chapter
2, then stick around to the end of this video.
Welcome to Things You Missed, I am traveling this week so I’m not in the studio, but
I did get my own copy of It Chapter 2, so I scrubbed through it and found, surprisingly,
a lot more that I hadn’t caught in theaters.
So if you haven’t seen my original 71 Things You Missed, I’d recommend you watch that
one first, but assuming you have seen it, let’s get into the Things You Missed.
[THINGS YOU MISSED]
One thing I brought up when covering the first It was the constant cosmic references that
set up Pennywise’s origins from outer space in the second movie, and I did notice some
teases in the second chapter as well.
The Ferris Wheel at the Festival is called the Astro, the carnival mural features sun
and moon paintings and we can see that Eddie’s phone is a Galaxy S8.
This all ties into the Ritual of Chud, which they eventually use to try to defeat It.
In the novel, the backstory is expanded and we learn about the ancient rivalry between
It, and it’s rival, Maturin the Turtle.
I pointed out some references to the Turtle in the last video, but I found even more,
such as this one in Henry’s room at the asylum.
Mike also speaks of a root that the native americans believed has mystic properties,
which he also puts in Bill’s drink so that he too can see the Ritual of Chud.
Roll it.
"Their holy man.
Their holy of holies.
He took me in.
Fed me their sacred Maturin.”
The turtle isn’t refered to as Maturin in the novel It, but we learn of the name Maturin
and more lore in Stephen King’s Dark Tower series.
We first meet adult Bill on the set of the movie he’s adapting from his own novel,
Attic Room.
If you pause here you can get a better look at the book version, and it’s massive, much
like the novel It, and there’s a forward by someone named Jason Ballantine.
When we later see the copy of his other book, The Black Rapids, Jason Ballantine is also
responsible for the forward.
This is a reference to the editor of both It and It Chapter 2.
Usually when we see a crew member referenced like that, the art department makes references to themselves,
so I think it’s nice that the editor got some love in this one.
This next part is something that I did notice in the theaters, but I almost couldn’t believe
my own eyes, and ultimately just thought I must have imagined it, and thus didn’t put
it the previous episode.
So the movie they are shooting is called Attic Room at Warner Bros studios, but on this camera
tape, the memo doesn’t say Attic Room, it says, Attic Panic.
But what is Attic Panic?
Well, It Chapter 2 takes place in 2016, and one big horror movie that Warner Bros released
in 2016 is Lights Out, directed by David Sandberg, who was hired after posting his short film
Lights Out to YouTube and it being massively successful.
One of his other shorts on his YouTube channel is called Attic Panic.
If you’ve seen my episode on Annabelle: Creation, you know that many of the concepts
from Attic Panic made it into Annabelle: Creation as well, which of course, is made by Warner
Bros.
The date on this label is 10/10/2018, which is obviously impossible since the film takes
place in 2016, but probably is just a fun little reference to the day this scene of
IT was actually shot, since we can literally see it says IT 2 right here.
I’ve also already pointed out this cameo by Peter Bogdonovich, but not the fact that
he’s wearing a VISTOW pin.
Vistow stands for Volunteers In Service To Orson Welles a reference to another movie
where Bogdonovich plays a director.
When Mike calls up the other losers, his area code is from Bangor, Maine.
The novel It was written in Bangor, and it’s said to serve as an inspiration for many of
the locations in Derry, and speaking of Derry, when Richie is about to go on stage at the
comedy club, a poster in the background says “Home We Go” foreshadowing the homecoming
that the Losers Club would soon face.
The next one we meet is Ben, and one of his employees in the board meeting is played by
Brandon Crane, the very same Brandon Crane who played the 12 year old Ben Hanscom in
the original 1990 adaptation of It.
After being introduced to the adult Losers Club, there’s one more adult version we
meet.
Other than Greta Keene, I guess.
I’m talking about Henry Bowers, who is locked up in Juniper Hills Mental Hospital, where
some of the other patients are watching an episode of Tom and Jerry.
This particular clip shows a piece of meat going down into the sewers, just Derry’s children
are food that is lured into the sewer system by Pennywise.
One of the new aspects of Richie’s character in Chapter 2 is the fact that he is revealed
to be bi-sexual.
There are actually some hints about this early on.
At the Chinese restaurant, he asks Eddie if he’s married, before clarifying, “What? To a
woman?”
Then he addresses Ben’s weightloss.
"Wait, let's talk about the elephant not in the room.
You're hot.
You're like every Brazilian soccer player wrapped up into one person.
At the end of that meal, Mike fills them all in on It, and shows off a couple pages of
his book.
The novel It is broken up by these interludes written by Mike that provide exposition about
the Derry and about the monster.
The film offers little glimpses of details about It, like this page that discusses Le
Loup Garou, the French werewolf slash skinchanger that the kids discuss as they compare It to
legends in many other cultures in Chapter 13 of the novel.
We can also see some other thoughts from Mike that I just found interesting, like him questioning
if the deadlights are a hallucination, or his plans to save up money to leave Derry
when this is all over, which he does.
At the end of the movie we get another look at this book, where we see Mike describing
the bird form of It, which is his biggest fear in the book, and also there’s a map
of the proximity between where Adrian Mellon is found compared to where the lumberjacks
are found in 1879, something I discussed in greater detail in the Pennywise Horror History.
Back at the hotel, Ben and Beverly talk in the bar, and one of the bottles in the background
resembles a clown from the clown room in Chapter One.
And as long as I’m talking about connections to Chapter One, you know the music that plays
during Penny’s infamous dance scene?
We can hear that again as Bill runs into the funhouse at the Derry Canal Days Festival.
I also pointed out director Andy Muschietti’s cameo in the first video, what I didn’t
realize is what he’s browsing in the pharmacy.
Like Beverly Marsh in the first movie, he’s eyeing a box of tampons.
By the way, after seeing my first video on It Chapter 2, Andy DMed me with a couple of
additional easter eggs.
“The little bully kid at the opening is played by Katie LUnman, aka, Betty Ripsom
in Chapter 1”.
He also hints that The Abbey Road album cover featured Paul McCartney walking barefoot.
Conspiracy theories said Paul was DEAD and that was a signal.
There’s a shot in the movie where one of the adult losers is barefoot.
Who is it?
The answer being Ben, did surprise me, though technically you do see Stan’s barefoot as
he gets in the tub, but he’s completely naked, so not sure if that counts.
One thing I was interested to take a closer look at was the bathroom stall that Beverly
is thrown into for her encounter with It.
Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to find a lot of meaning in most of the graffiti, but here
are the ones I found most interesting.
The right side is all about BJs, and one of the messages says, “BJ’s, call CLOWNS”.
So take that how you will.
Another says, “your father is proud of you”, perhaps this is a mock insult about Bev’s
dad, or maybe it just ties into the aforementioned BJs, as kind of a joke.
Then there are what seems to be three clues about how to defeat It.
The first says, "with the lights out it's less dangerous."
Then there's one that says, "smaller the better".
And then finally, "big is what it seems."
If you find anything interesting, drop me a comment, but I'm moving on to the plethora
of references to other works.
The first one is this name plate at the library which says Wendy Torrance, the name of the
Mom from The Shining, which is also written by Stephen King.
Then in the movie theater arcade, we see the remains of a poster for the Avengers.
No, not the one you just thought of, I’m talking about the 1998 film The Avengers.
I haven’t seen the movie, so I can’t say much more than that, but it does add weight
to my theory that the movie theater closed down in the year 1998.
In the junk shop that Stephen King’s character works at there are a bunch of license plates,
one of which is CQB 241, the license plate from another Stephen King story, Christine.
One thing I mentioned in the last video was a newspaper headline mentioning someone named
Gillespie, and how it may have been a reference to cop from Stephen King’s vampire novel
Salem’s Lot.
And after being able to pause and take a better look at this text, it totally is a big reference
to Salem’s Lot.
The headline reads “Constable Gillespie’s Investigation Widens”
Neighboring city turmoil forces officer into toughest decision of his career.
This confirms that the events of Salem’s Lot do take place in the nearby Jerusalem’s
Lot prior to the events of It, if we’re going by the altered timeline of the Muschietti
It films and really seems to suggest that Salem’s Lot will be the next Stephen King
novel slash TV movie to get the big Hollywood treatment.
And by the way, it is.
James Wan’s name has been mentioned, as has It Chapter 2 screenwriter Gary Dauberman.
My last Thing You Missed of the year, is kind of a tragic one.
Stan, in his final letter, the last thing he ever writes in his life, misspelled the
word lose.
"See, the thing about being a Loser is you don't have anything to lose."
Way to go out Stan.
Great going.
Check out the video on the left for the complete history of Stan and other It Characters.
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Assuming we both survive.