‘Welcome To Derry’: Bill Skarsgård To Return As Pennywise The Clown In Max’s Upcoming Prequel Series

Tom Hardy is addressing the possibility of returning to the Mad Max universe for a rumored prequel, The Wasteland.

The NCIS: Origins is coming!

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To no one’s surprise, Lionsgate remains in the “Hunger Games” business. The studio has greenlit an adaptation of Suzanne Collins‘ upcoming prequel ahead of its March 18, 2025, release date.

After months of build-up, the hype for Fede Álvarez‘s “Alien: Romulus” is rounding into form, with a new trailer this week featuring the most footage from the upcoming film yet.

There’s an It prequel series titled Welcome to Derry gearing up at HBO’s Max, and we have some info about the cast!

The Elder Scrolls Online has been going for 10 years now. It’s a sprawling game which opens up all of Tamriel to explore, but how do the developers at ZeniMax Online Studios keep track of what’s going on everywhere and what parts of the world they should let players explore?“That’s decided by the studio leads,” Bill Slavicsek, narrative director at ZeniMax, tells NME.

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.

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.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Bill Skarsgård said in an interview with Esquire magazine that the studio behind “It” perhaps didn’t make the best choice in deciding to release the first image of him as the villainous clown Pennywise before filming even got underway on the Stephen King film adaptation. Warner Bros. released the two-part film, which together earned more than $1 billion at the worldwide box office.

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Bill Skarsgard is opening up about the possibility of being Pennywise again.

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The Dexter prequel series is coming!

Now, is this necessary?  Showtime made it known in early 2023 that it wanted to expand its “Dexter” franchise with a sequel to 2021’s “Dexter: New Blood,” but this, pun fully intended, is overkill. Before that spinoff, another one arrives: “Dexter: Original Sin,” a ten-episode prequel series that centers on a young serial killer-in-training Dexter Morgan in early ’90s Miami.

Marvel Studios’ Vision in a newly greenlit Disney+ series.Variety reported yesterday (May 23) that the as-yet-titled series will be helmed by showrunner Terry Matalas, who led the recent seasons of Star Trek: Picard as executive producer. It is currently earmarked for a 2026 release.The report states that Matalas was brought in by Marvel after being impressed by his work on Star Trek: Picard, which has seen Marvel alumni Patrick Stewart heading his first Star Trek outing since 2002 film Star Trek: Nemesis.Bettany last played Vision in the 2021 Disney+ series WandaVision, where the character was resurrected and revamped into White Vision following his death in 2018’s Avengers: Infinity War.That year, Bettany revealed in an interview that his contract with Marvel had expired, stating: “I guess it would be difficult to introduce White Vision and not deal with him in some way, but we have not discussed that.”In 2022, Variety reported that a Vision spinoff series was in development by WandaVision creator Jac Schaeffer, who is currently preparing the September 2024 release of Disney+ series – and fellow WandaVision spin-off – Agatha All Along.Earlier this month, Disney CEO Bob Iger announced that there will be fewer new entries in the near future for the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga roared through Cannes before it launches in theaters Friday after nearly 10 years in development. The prequel film builds on the Australian wasteland universe established in George Miller‘s four other movies of the franchise: Mad Max (1979), Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981), Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) and Mad Max: Fury Road (2015).

EXCLUSIVE: Lord of the Rings star Morfydd Clark and Under the Banner of Heaven’s Billy Howle will star in new versions of John Osborn’s Look Back In Anger and Arnold Wesker’s Roots, which will run in rep at London’s Almeida in what has been dubbed the Angry and Young season. Ahead of the season, Romola Garai will appear in Eline Arbo’s adaptation of Annie Ernaux’s exceptional Noble Prize-winning novel The Years.