I think one of the kids is Mikes dad so they won’t kill everybody off in the first season. I agree though that Pennywise will be more alien the further back we go.

From the brief clip at the end of the trailer, I think this Pennywise will look the same, but I think it will get slightly different the further back we go. Season 3, if it were to happen would be set in 1908 and maybe he’d have a more Bob Gray human look to him.

In terms of the fate of the kids, I think one season will have everyone dying, the rest would kill off one or two and have the rest leave Derry or live in terror. Afterwards.

I saw this post, and thought I'd watch it again. Just noticed something new for me. When Ben is in the library looking up the history of Derry, you see an old woman putting books away behind him. But as soon as he opens this one book, she turns and watched him. Each time they show her she seems to get a little closer and is staring intently at Ben, smiling kinda like Pennywise.

Probably been noticed before, but I just saw it.

Plus, the mural depicts something that is mentioned in the book... in the 30's Pennywise instigated evil impulses on the people of the town, so the entire city gun down two cars with a few criminals that where passing by the town for gas.

IIRC he appears somewhere like that every time before he appears

yeah yeah.. I was just simplifying.. The thing is, it is a very memorable part of the book, it is cool that they got to put this little nod in the movie.

That's a great way to describe it. I'm in the minority because I didn't really like it. The whole movie was build up but in the end none of the kids were killed to set it up for the sequel.

Honestly with all the humour I thought it was more like a coming of age movie than it was a horror

Kinda reminded me of stand by me, mixed with a bit of the conjuring I guess

Its not too scary. Horror doesn't really bother me, but if there's one thing I can say about the movie, it's FUNNY! Intentionally!!

I must say, I spent about a minute zooming in to try and find him in the second pic... The way it's framed, I couldn't tell it was the same mural/location.

Pennywise feeds on fear and came from the primordial or Todash Darkness. In 40k terms its somewhat like the Warp. There are also weaker beings like IT/Pennywise/Robert Gray -including Dandelo/Joseph Collins, The Library Policeman/Ardelia Lortz, Tak the Outsider, and of course..........THE CRIMSON KING.

Now Stephen King was a fan of the band King Crimson. GW was too. 40k launched in 1984 IIRC the same year King published his Dark Tower series introducing The Crimson King.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrsW--Sh7YE

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Also, Magnus did nothing wrong.

Well i think Pennywise just some lesser Daemon from the warp. In W40K A single Grey Knight can kill him easily. :)

Are the new It films any good ?

I have a wife that hates horror films so i have to fit them in when she's not around.

I mean in the book it's stated that he's the primordial embodiment of chaos, with his rival, the turtle, being the embodiment of order.

Stephen King actually relied heavily on HP Lovecraft material and some of his characters can be traced directly back to the Cthulhu Mythos

I have a theory that he doesn't leave Derry, ever, he just escapes to different times. The method through which he moves is the same method accidentally discovered in 2011 in the book 11-22-63. It's the right time, and the right city.

Her*(possibly)

In the book there's a part where they discover he's been around since pretty much the prehistoric era. Landed on earth from an asteroid or something

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Me too. Hopefully being in a tv show format will mean that they’ll be able to do more.

I mean one kid literally died in the first 10mins of the first episode in a pretty gruesome way, also the only ways these kids win is if they force pennywise into early hibernation or leave the town.

Pennywise will definitely kill off some of the main cast, I’m more interested to see how the “mind battle” plays out between dick halloran and pennywise

I hope that they get rid of whatever humor they were going for in Chapter 2. While it was entertaining, it took away from the horror aspect of it

The problem will end up being they ignore all the humour and low key small town/city stuff that brings King's stories to life.

That was the problem with "Castle Rock" - all grim, all the time. No humour, no absurdity.

Gotta include things like manipulating Mr Grey with bacon sandwiches,shit-bombs, Fuck me Freddy and kiss my bender!

I think this is probably what we're going to get, since the series covers the former cycles of Pennywise. And we know from the book that very few people directly involved in the major events survived. We know how devastating the Black Spot incident was, and how upsetting. I'd hope they wouldn't choose to cover the former cycles and then shy away from how brutal they were. And the trailers so far indicate it will be very dark and heavy on actual horror.

But we won't know till it airs.

Is that even Pennywise they look nothing alike

Still a better prequel than the Hobbit Trilogy!

Ok here’s The thing

Is he reporting on the children he eats?

You think that's scary, I live in maine and have been here my entire life. Also my dad read us It at a very young age I couldn't sleep for a while

I think it's more then that. At least in the book its indicated that IT originated from somewhere beyond the universe. Obviously, the movies doesn't take it that far. But, I believe saying IT is just an alien is unstatment.

Additionally, in the book, pennywise is a female, or at least able to be pregnant/produce children

You're correct, the finale of the book is very Lovecraftian. Stephen King felt done with horror at the time, and wanted to write one last book in the genre in which he would explore all kinds of horror, like a final exam. Including Lovecraft, one of his big influences. It's real form is incomprehensible for humans, described as a vast crawling, hairy, orange light in the black void of the Macroverse. Very inspired by The Colour Out Of Space (and The Man with the X-ray Eyes). You could say It is more eldritch abomination than alien.

He is a creature from the primordial soup of the universe. Hangs out in what’s called Todash space.

If you can take the time to read the book. Worth it. I've read it three times and it gets better each time.