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It's Deadlights as seen in the 1990s' Stephen King's IT. Being an interdimensional cosmic being, IT was an extremely powerful entity. Although its true form exists outside of time and space in the Macroverse, the powers demonstrated by its earthly avatar include: Psychic Power: IT possesses an insane level of psychic power. It can steal people. The Mythology Of IT Explained: Origin, Deadlights & Eater Of Worlds. IT Chapter Two dives deeper into the origins of Pennywise and the mythology of the Stephen King universe. Here's everything you need to know.

As we all know, a film adaptation of Stephen King’s It is in the works and is set to come out in September. There is a lot of fantastic news coverage concerning the film flying around the internet (take a look at The Inquisitr’s page about the upcoming movie), but be very wary of the constant mistake writers make in which they call this year’s It a remake. Yes, the 1990 miniseries adaptation of Stephen King’s book was popular, thanks mainly to Tim Curry’s turn as Pennywise the Clown. But that does not mean the movie will reflect the miniseries, which many people, Stephen King fans or not, consider to be cheesy and outdated. And it certainly will not rehash the incredibly lackluster ending shown in the miniseries. So let’s take a look at the ending from Stephen King’s book, the ending from the leaked Cary Fukunaga script, what we will probably see as the ending to Andres Muschietti’s movie, and how they all make sense.

WARNING: Spoilers for Stephen King’s 1986 horror classic It, as well as spoilers for the 1990 ABC miniseries and light spoilers for Cary Fukunaga’s script, are within. Press on at your own discretion!

First, it should be noted that the ending of this year’s It movie is not the main group of antagonist’s final encounter with Pennywise (the name we’ll use to refer to the titular creature). This year’s installment is only part one of the story contained in Stephen King’s work; it only follows the characters as children. Because of that, the movie’s ending will show the main characters’ final encounter with Pennywise as children.

In Stephen King’s original written vision, the encounter we will see in the movie is the first time when we see Pennywise in its true form. It is not a clown, nor a leper, nor a werewolf, but a giant spider-like creature whose exact shape cannot be described. Even beyond its spider shape, Stephen King writes that it is more of a cosmic entity referred to as “the deadlights.”

It is difficult to describe on paper since I have neither Stephen King’s one-in-a-billion writing talent nor the scores of pages he uses to talk about Pennywise’s underlying identity. Certainly, though, a really good on-screen translation of King’s reveal would be extremely difficult and costly, requiring masterful direction and intensive use of advanced special effects.

Because special effects were infinitely harder to come by back then and the TV miniseries was undoubtedly on a much tighter budget, it is no wonder the people behind the 1990 miniseries severely botched the scene when they finally did show Pennywise in its spider form once the main characters had grown up.

There's the clown disguise form and the spider true form of Pennywise pic.twitter.com/eVFn90XYaN

— Albert Maynerd Weis (@WeisAlbert) April 4, 2017

As children, however, the characters in the Stephen King-inspired miniseries never even encountered the spider. Instead, after Pennywise grabs Stan Uris and bares his fangs, Eddie Kaspbrak fires off his asthma inhaler in its face and Beverly Marsh shoots it with a slingshot. These are both things that happened in Stephen King’s novel, albeit not during the children’s final encounter with their adversary. Pennywise then jumps down a nearby drain and disappears for the next 30-odd years.

Fukunaga’s script, which has been pulled from the internet by New Line since it was leaked in late March, remains more faithful to King’s source material. It is partly because, behind a big-budget movie and with the massive advancement in CGI capabilities over the past 27 years, Fukunaga was able to realistically suggest a much more ambitious re-envisioning. It is also probably thanks in part to the fact that Fukunaga, reports Cinema Blend, is a big Stephen King fan himself.

In Fukunaga’s script, like in Stephen King’s book, the children encounter Pennywise as a creature beyond imagination.

“In Fukunaga’s original script, they go beneath the sewers and they find the entrance to the deadlights,” notes the commentator for the Stephen King Cast, a popular Stephen King-focused podcast, in a recent episode concerning the first trailer for It.

Deadlights

“It’s a really trippy-looking scene, with water flowing upwards and a pool, and beneath the pool it’s infinite space, and reality doesn’t look like reality anymore. The Clown reveals its true form, which is the deadlights, and it’s taking on the form of this glowing starfish thing with tentacles. So rather than a spider, it’s more of a deep-sea monstrosity, which kind of speaks to the Lovecraftian influences of the original text. So it just all sounds horrifying.”

That sounds like a dream, especially for Stephen King fans, but that does not mean Fukunaga’s script would have been perfect. Some sites like Birth. Movies. Death. insist It would have been a “Great American Horror Film” and more than enough to do justice to Stephen King’s story had Fukunaga not left the production over creative differences, but, as the Inquisitr previously proposed, Fukunaga’s departure might have actually been a good thing.

Regardless, the question is if Andres Muscietti’s iteration of It will give us an ending more similar to Stephen King’s, Cary Fukunaga’s, or the TV miniseries’.

The answer is most likely that we will be seeing something like Fukunaga’s conclusion. According to NME, the script Muscietti is using is just a slightly tweaked version of Fukunaga’s draft with changes according to Andres’s vision for the retelling of the immortal Stephen King tale. This means the details people read in the Fukunaga script are more likely than not to come alive on the screen come September.

[Featured image by Monstah/Deviant Art]

Brooke Palmer—Warner Bros. PicturesAlthough the Losers think that they defeated It during the battle in the sewers in the first movie, the vision that Bev saw in the Deadlights of all of them back in the cistern as adults makes them wary enough to swear a blood oath that they will all come back to Derry if It ever returns. However, they’re unaware that part of the hold that It has on Derry is It’s ability to make people forget the atrocities It has committed, especially those who move away from the town. Brooke Palmer—Warner Bros. PicturesOnce everyone is back on board with defeating It and the group has retrieved Stan’s token — one of the shower caps that he stored in the Losers’ clubhouse to keep spiders out of his hair — each Loser sets out alone to find their own token.

Despite the fact that nearly all of them have a solo encounter with It in the process, Bill makes it back with Georgie’s paper sailboat, Bev with the haiku that Ben wrote for her when they were kids, Richie with a literal token from the arcade, Eddie with his inhaler, Ben with the page from his yearbook that Bev signed and Mike with the rock that Bev hit Henry Bowers with to save him as a kid. In the process, they continue to regain their memories of what happened the first summer they battled It and how they defeated It back then. After Dean (Luke Roessler) is killed by It in the fun house, the group follows Bill to the house on Neibolt Street and they again climb down the well into the sewers. This time though, they go deep enough in to reach the site where It first crash landed on Earth. It’s there that Mike brings out the artifact and they all burn their tokens inside of it while holding hands and chanting, “Turn dark to light!”The ritual summons It in the form of the Deadlights and at first, it seems like the Losers may actually be successful in trapping It inside the artifact. However, It then breaks out and it’s revealed that Mike lied: The Native Americans who first attempted to trap It were all slaughtered by It because they didn’t truly believe the ritual would work. Mike was convinced that the Losers’ belief that they could defeat It would protect them just as it seemed to at the end of the first movie.

It then transforms into its final form, a massive clown-spider hybrid, and the battle of wills between the Losers and It truly begins.In the book, King emphasizes that the power of belief is the only thing that gives the Losers a fighting chance against It. But having lost their childish imaginations in the 27 years since they first battled It, to actually kill It as adults, the Losers need to dig a little deeper than they did as children.Thanks to illusions created by It, each of the Losers finds him- or herself in a situation in which they’re forced to face down what they fear the most. Richie and Eddie end up back in front of the “Scary,” “Very Scary” and “Not Scary At All” doors from the first movie; Bev is locked in a bathroom stall flooding with blood while the bullies who have tormented her throughout her life try to break down the door; Ben is alone in the Losers’ clubhouse getting buried alive; and Bill is in the flooded basement of his childhood home with both Georgie and his younger self blaming him for Georgie’s death. We don’t see what Mike faces.By accepting that the only way to overcome the traumas of their childhoods is to face them head on, they all manage break free of It’s traps. But they still have to face the clown-spider hybrid. When Richie gets caught in the Deadlights, Eddie hurls the fence post from the Neibolt house — that Bev told him “kills monsters if you believe it does” — at spider-Pennywise, wounding It and releasing Richie from his trance.

But while Eddie stands over Richie celebrating his triumph, It runs him through with a spiked tentacle and flings him through the air. The group is horrified, particularly Richie, and gathers around Eddie as he lays dying.Spurred on by Eddie’s sacrifice, the group is more intent than ever to destroy It. After finally realizing that the key to It’s defeat is that It must abide by the laws of nature concerning whatever form it takes, the Losers channel their strengths of will to force It to take forms that they will be able to physically defeat, like that of the old woman and the clown. Just as It has always wielded the power of belief against the Losers by making them believe that it’s the incarnation of their greatest fears, the Losers are able to turn this power back around on It.Like King’s novel, IT Chapter Two relies heavily on the idea that without belief, there’s no such thing as fear. And without fear as a weapon, It is powerless.Because the Losers are no longer afraid of It and truly believe they can defeat it, they are able to mentally manipulate It until it’s beaten down into a powerless and decrepit version of itself, about the size of a baby. The Losers then rip out It’s heart and crush it between their hands as a group, ensuring that It is dead and will stay that way forever.After It’s body disintegrates in front of them, they return to Eddie’s side only to discover that he’s already dead.

Richie is beside himself and the others are forced to drag him away from Eddie’s body to escape It’s lair as it collapses in on itself. By retracing their steps, the surviving Losers are able to make it out of the Neibolt house just in time to avoid getting trapped forever. What happens at the end of IT Chapter Two? Brooke Palmer—Warner Bros. PicturesAfter finally defeating It, the Losers leave the Neibolt house and return to the quarry where they all swam together as kids in the first movie.

Bev is once again the first to jump off the cliff into the water and the boys follow. As they wash the filth of the sewers off, Richie begins sobbing over Eddie’s death and the rest of the group hug and comfort him. In classic Richie style, he then cracks a joke about how his glasses are missing and Bev and Ben swim underwater to retrieve them. They kiss as a smiling Bill watches from afar and swims away. After the Losers return home, it’s revealed that Stan wrote a letter before his death for each of them, explaining that he knew they wouldn’t be able to defeat It if every Loser who was still alive wasn’t involved in the final battle.

He says that since he was too scared to return to Derry, he decided to “take himself off the board” instead.The final montage of scenes shows Bill finishing the first chapter of a new novel, Richie going back over the “R + E” — a.k.a. Richie + Eddie — that he carved into Derry’s kissing bridge as a child, Bev telling Ben that she had a “beautiful dream” — implying that the nightmares she’s had since she was a child are gone — as they sit together on a boat, and Mike driving away from Derry.The Losers’ Club can finally live out their lives in peace.