This year's "IT" does not give a clear answer as to where Bill Skarsgard's Pennywise the Clown went in the ending scene. However, Wyat Oleff, aka the film's Stanley Uris, has some thoughts about it.
To recap, the sharp-fanged creature retreated into the sewers after a brutal fight with the Losers Club. According to Oleff, Pennywise could be hiding beneath the cursed town of Derry, Maine, in a deeper and more sinister hideout not shown in the first movie. That should be the place Pennywise calls home, and where it waits for another 27 years until it strikes back against a middle-aged Losers Club in "IT: Chapter 2."
"I'm just coming up with this on the spot but it would be really cool if there was like a separate layer to the, what's that space called? Cistern. If there was like a lower layer to that that would be really cool," the 14-year-old actor told Cinema Blend, adding, "Yeah, like his like official nest area."
The idea that Maine is sitting atop such place not only feels very Stephen King, it also makes a good jumping off point for the sequel. From what director Andy Muschietti said previously, the events of the first film were just the tip of the iceberg. There is a "transdimensional" element of the novels that was deftly side-stepped "to respect the mystery of not knowing what's on the other side"; and that is slated to be explored in the second installment.
Then again, as Cinema Blend notes, the hiding spot is not canon; just Oleff's theory, so it is best to be taken with a grain of salt. With roughly two more years left until the sequel, fans will just have to wait and see. For now, the only things certain is that Pennywise is alive out there somewhere and will be back when the Losers Club are already full-grown adults.
Oleff and the rest of the young actors will return for essential flashbacks while their present-day counterparts have yet to be cast.
"IT: Chapter 2" is set to open in theaters on Sept. 6, 2019.
