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Stephen ’s KingITmay be point to cinemas for the first time this fall , but Pennywise has already had a late outing on the flatware CRT screen thanks toThe Dark Tower . TheITEaster eggwas first seen in the second trailer of Nikolaj Arcel ’s film as Jake Chambers ( Tom Taylor ) stumbles across an honest-to-goodness , abandoned theme common after entering Mid - World . Fans of the book and the ' 90 tv set series will know that Pennywise the clown is It ’s favored form , and the name is understandably seen on the abandoned ship construction , with a goofball hand hold three balloon . So how did It end up inThe Dark Towermovie ?
Stephen King devotee are to the full aware of the share universe of his novels , with various characters popping up frequently in books other than their own . The Dark Towerseries is actually the glue that holds all the King narratives together , because of the role the titulary column play . The Dark Tower is the heart and soul of all institution , and the blank space - time continuum , and was created by Gan , King ’s equivalent to God . The Tower can only be go in via End - World , one of three section of Mid - World , and is affirm by six beams that on each last has portal to other humans . These twelve portals are manned by brute - like guardians ( these do n’t appear in the film ) and take into account characters like Jake to trip from his world , Keystone Earth , into Mid - World .
The new domain he enters is a barren wasteland with only tattered remnants of the former technologically innovative civilization , known as Imperium , leave behind . This world was a analogue to the United States and occupied by a masses called “ Old Ones ” who wore similar article of clothing , drove similar machine and project architecture similar to that see to it in the parallel Earth worlds ofIt ’s Derry and Jake ’s New York . Imperium may well have had a composition green and a Pennywise attractor itself , which was necessarily destroy after these ancient people ’s civil war leave Mid - World a radioactive mess , and that ’s why Jake stumble across it in the movie . He is n’t from the same parallel world as the one depicted inIT , as the Derry , Maine " Mainstream Universe " is a disjoined one to his Keystone Earth world , however , there are still similarities between the two . The household on Niebold Street visit by member of the Losers ' Club inITshares a like verbal description to the wallpaper come up in the Dutch Hill sign of the zodiac , and the Asimov robot , Stuttering Bill , encountered by Susannah and Roland in one ofThe Dark Towerbooks , share the same soubriquet as Bill Denbrough , the older sidekick Pennywise ’s unfortunate dupe Georgie Denbrough .
The diabolic entity also manage a power call Deadlights , an energy shape used by the Crimson King , a major enemy of Roland Deschain , who is hell - bended on destroying The Dark Tower so that he can recreate the macrocosm in his image and dominate it . In the bookInsomnia , it ’s revealed that the Crimson King is a shape - gearstick that takes the frame of the matter that dash you most . Pennywise practices the same sort of veneration - rush form - shifting to aggress the children / adults of the Losers ’ Club , which means they could well be connect . AsDen of Geekpoints out , Penywise is from the Macroverse :
" Which is like Todash Darkness - a sort of nothingness that live between alternative dimensions in the Kingverse where all the really terrible creatures come from . conceive H.P. Lovecraft ’s Great Old Ones . Although it ’s never posit that The Macroverse is the same thing as Todash Darkness , they vocalise like the same awful place . King might ’ve just miss a retcon . "
The Crimson King is also tie toWalter , A.K.A. The Man in Black(played by Matthew McConaughey ) , who is the main baddie inThe Dark Tower . Walter is in reality a servant of The Crimson King in the books , with the ability to mould - transmutation too , and in the film he has the same goals as his captain .
Similarly , Pennywise and Dandelo - a villain fromThe Dark Tower seriesalso known as Joe Collins - portion out the same form of tycoon , and many readers actually thought they were the same role . Both creatures feed on the emotions of their victims - the former through veneration and the latter through laughter . King ended that sort of speculation by confirming that they are most likely the same form of Todash monster , and there ’s even grounds to evoke that Dandelo is an offspring of Pennywise . It was revealed at the close ofITthat the creature laid eggs under his home in Derry and one of these ball could have dream up and give-up the ghost through the portal vein to Empathica where Dandelo is from .
Another connection betweenThe Dark Towerseries andITis the Turtle , Maturin , a shielder of one of the beams and cuss opposition of Pennywise . The ripened turtle is more a witness of the event inIT , but does assist untried Bill Denbrough during the ritual of the Chüd in 1958 to briefly defeat the demonic devil . IT director , Andy Muschietti , has saidthere will be source to Maturinin the form of a Lego piece as well as later in the film , but that does n’t entail we can expect a shared It / The Dark Tower universe .
The TV series , starringTim Curry as the nominal merry andrew , did not include any source to the Turtle , and as Muschietti " was n’t too crazy about [ Maturin ’s ] mythology , " IT in all probability wo n’t employ it in any meaningful way of life either . This could be because it would open up a wider , more complex narrative linking to King ’s multiverses rather than allowing it to be a tight , put up - alone dealership . TheITbeing released this year is part one of the story , focus on the untried versions ofThe Losers ' Cluband set in the 1980s rather than the 1950s , with part two centring on the adult in present day . Bill Skarsgårdis taking on the titular role in Muschietti ’s moving picture , but he did n’t make an appearance in Arcel ’s celluloid as some fans had go for . So any reference toThe Dark Towerbook series in the newITmay simply function as an Easter egg , just like Pennywise ’s carnival attractor did inThe Dark Towermovie .
However , just because there does n’t seem to be plans by Muschietti to create a share existence within hisITduology , it does n’t meanThe Dark Towerfranchise will do the same . There are point of reference to numerous King Christian Bible in the pic - includingThe polishing , ChristineanMisery- and as there maybe more films to total , despite thepoor critical response , they may become more than just Easter bollock and actually part of the narrative .
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