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HBO Max‘s It prequel series Welcome To Derry has scored its Pennywise – and it’s a returning Bill Skarsgård.Skarsgård, who famously donned the clown makeup in 2017’s It and 2019’s It: Chapter Two, has been confirmed to reprise his role as the creepy intergalactic clown-looking creature known as Pennywise for the upcoming TV prequel series.Per a Deadline report, Skarsgård will rejoin the two movies’ director Andy Muschietti, producer Barbara Muschietti and Chapter Two co-producer Jason Fuchs for Welcome To Derry.Welcome To Derry is tapped to run for nine episodes, with Muschietti in the director’s seat for four of its episodes. A release date for Welcome To Derry has yet to be announced.Skarsgård previously said in March 2023 that he wasn’t involved in the prequel series, though he left the door open for a future return.2019’s It: Chapter Two scored a four-star review, with NME‘s Alex Flood writing: “For the most part, Muschietti’s sequel is a tightly-constructed potboiler that balances humour and horror in a satisfying way.
As a bonus, Derry’s bloodthirsty harlequin has a hinted-at backstory that’s perfect for a prequel. Who knows? Pennywise may have the last laugh after all.”Skarsgård is next set to appear as another iconic character in a remake of The Crow.
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It’s official: Pennywise will return in “Welcome To Derry.” Deadline reports that Bill Skarsgård, who played the evil entity that terrorizes the fictional Maine town, mostly in the form of a clown, will reprise his role from 2017’s “It” and its 2019 sequel “It Chapter Two” for Max‘s upcoming prequel series. Skarsgård will also serve as executive producer on the series, which Deadline confirms will be nine episodes.
Bill Skarsgard is gearing up to return to the It franchise playing the iconic horror character Pennywise in a new series called Welcome to Derry.
EXCLUSIVE: A familiar face is coming back to terrorize the children of Derry, Maine. Bill Skarsgård is set to star in and executive produce the Max It prequel series Welcome To Derry (working title), He will be reprising his title role as It/Pennywise from the hit 2017 New Line movie It and its sequel, It Chapter Two.
It, and then again in 2019’s It Chapter Two.In a new interview with Esquire, Skarsgård admitted that he was nervous about taking over the mantle from Tim Curry, who previously portrayed the character in the 1990 mini-series.“When you are 26, you don’t feel young at all, but now, looking back at it, I was a kid,” he said. “It was fairly early on in my career to take on something that had so many eyeballs and expectations on it.”The actor then explained why he thought it was “mean” for the studio to share first-look images of his Pennywise before the film’s release, given his worries about fan expectations.“They did a thing that I felt was kind of mean.
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