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.
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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.
I am hopeful of this. The book has many grisly stories about terrible happenings around Derry with Mike interviewing various people around the town. Those stories didn’t make it into the movies. I think it’d be interesting to cover them.
It’s a good point, a lot of my issues with prequels is that they remove a lot of the jeopardy.