The teaser trailer for It: Chapter 2 was recently released, and everyone’s starting to get
excited for the sequel.
Here are a few theories I have about Chapter 2.
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Theory Number 1: The Fate of Henry Bowers.
As a child, Henry Bowers is the most feared bully in town, terrorizing the Losers Club
with his gang of thugs and his switchblade.
His mental stability deteriorates towards the end of the summer, when he kills his father
and goes after the Loser’s Club to try to kill them as well.
As an adult, Henry plays a significant part in the book.
He’s broken out of a mental asylum by It to seek revenge.
But in It: Chapter 1, Henry is bested by Mike, who knocks him into the well in the basement
of 29 Neibolt, which looks to go on forever.
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So how did Henry Bowers survive the fall in the wellhouse?
We’ve already seen that It has the power to transfigure parts of the house, so I think
it stands to reason that it could have created some kind of net, or something to catch Henry.
Henry had already proven himself a worthy servant by killing off his father at the request
of Pennywise and in a deleted scene and killing his two friends, Victor and Belch.
If we take that to be canon, then it might not really work for either of them to be the
form that It uses to break Henry out of the asylum, so maybe Henry never actually left
Derry.
I think it’s kind of a creepy idea to consider that It kept Henry down in the sewers all
those years, just waiting to unleash his minion again 27 years later.
Theory Number 2: We discover the origin of It.
In 1990, the first adaptation of It was released in the form of a 2-part TV mini-series.
Understandably, with the novel coming in at over 1100 pages, some of those scenes had
to be left out, one of which was the smoke-hole scene, where the members of the Loser’s
Club attempt to carry out an ancient Native American ritual to help them decide what they
should do about their Pennywise problem.
The ritual involves them starting a campfire in their underground fort and breathing in
the smoke until they have a vision telling them what to do.
If that sounds familiar, you may have already read the book, or maybe you just hung out
with the wrong kids in high school, I don’t really know.
But when they carry out the ritual, everyone jumps out for air except Richie and Mike,
and they see their tiny clubhouse expand, and then the smoke clears and they find themselves
in the middle of the Barrens, but the landscape is different and they are surrounded by animals
that haven’t lived in Maine for thousands of years.
Now I’m not going to spoil anything, but they basically see the arrival of It.
This scene takes place when they’re kids, and it’s obviously not in Chapter 1, but
just because we didn’t see it in the movie doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.
We’ve already seen in the trailer that there will be flashbacks to when they were all children,
and the majority of the adult portion of the novel is their forgotten childhood memories
coming back to them.
So I think we could either see a smoke-hole scene as a flashback in Chapter 2, or another
scene that explains Pennywise’s origins.
Based on the trailer, it already looks like there’s going to be some backstory on Pennywise’s
human form, Bob Gray, which is the name Pennywise uses to introduce itself to several characters
in the book such as Georgie, Eddie and Beverly.
My third theory pertains to the final form of It.
Now obviously there’s no way I can do this one without going into spoilers, so if you
haven’t seen the mini-series or read the book, it’s a quick enough read isn’t it?
You can just breeze through that puppy in… uh… an hour or two?
So when it comes to the 1990 adaptation, the most common complaint by far is the final
spider form, it’s probably the least scary part making everything feel a bit anticlimactic.
And it’s just following the book, but in the book King is able to explain that it’s
not really a spider, and that that’s just the closest thing our tiny human brains can
interpret It as.
But the response to the mini-series spider has led some to believe that the filmmakers
behind It: Chapter 2 are going to take it in a different direction.
We have seen them setup a possible showdown between It and Bill, which is known as The
Ritual of Chud in the book, where Bill is launched outside of his physical body into
this thing called The Macroverse, where he basically has to defeat It with his mind,
with the guidance of another celestial being known as The Turtle, who is also teased at
and referenced in Chapter One.
“It’s a turtle!”
However, unlike the smoke hole scene, it's not like that’s something that could have
happened but it just wasn’t shown in the first movie.
We see the final battle and that doesn’t happen.
But what does happen is Pennywise temporarily transforms into a half-arachnid creature while
cycling among forms.
I have to think this is a little tease that the second movie will stay true to the idea
of It’s final form appearing as a spider to the Losers.
However, I don’t think that necessarily means that it’s going to be anticlimactic
again, I just think they have to make a cooler looking arachnid than the one from 1990.
Maybe instead of a giant spider, it’s more of a half clown, half spider alien hybrid.
I always thought it was strange that we’re haunted by a clown for the whole story, but
then at the end it’s just a spider all the sudden, so I think incorporating the clown
into the spider form be a more fitting conclusion.
Let me know what your own theories are in the comments and click the video on the left
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Assuming we both survive.