It’s been a beat since Invoice Skarsgård performed Pennywise in each “It” movies (launched in 2017 and 2019, respectively), however the “Nosferatu” and “The Crow” actor has wasted no time diving into the demonic terror of the Stephen King villain for prequel collection “It: Welcome to Derry.”
The present is about in Sixties Derry, 27 years earlier than Andy Muschietti’s 2017 “It: Chapter One” movie. Filmmakers Andy Muschietti and Barbara Muschietti developed the drama collection “Welcome to Derry” for tv together with Jason Fuchs; Andy Muschietti is directing a number of episodes of the collection.
The elusive logline reads: “Set on the planet of Stephen King’s ‘It’ universe, ‘It: Welcome to Derry’ relies on King’s ‘It’ novel and expands the imaginative and prescient established by filmmaker Andy Muschietti within the characteristic movies ‘It’ and ‘It: Chapter Two.’”
So what’s “Welcome to Derry” actually about? It’s secure to say that it might simply be an origin story for Skarsgård’s Pennywise with a brand new crop of children to scare. The forged contains Taylour Paige, Jovan Adepo, Chris Chalk, James Remar, Stephen Rider, Madeleine Stowe, and Rudy Mancuso.
“It: Welcome to Derry” is produced by HBO and Warner Bros. Tv. Andy Muschietti and Barbara Muschietti produce via their Double Dream manufacturing firm, together with Fuchs, Skarsgård, Brad Caleb Kane, David Coatsworth, Shelley Meals, Roy Lee, and Dan Lin who government produce. Fuchs and Kane function co-showrunners on the mission; Fuchs wrote the teleplay for the primary episode.
Skarsgård beforehand instructed Collider that it was “surreal” how large of successful the “It” movies have been. “It turned this utterly common factor, exterior of the factor. That’s not me. I can’t even relate myself to it anymore,” Skarsgård stated when reprising the position for the sequel movie. “And now that I’m going again and doing it, it’s such a weird factor. I don’t assume I’ll ever actually expertise something prefer it. It’s this dualistic factor of me and the work and the character, after which the factor that it turned, nevertheless it’s enjoyable.”
He added that it was simple to slide into the alter ego of the clown, too. “I used to be shocked how a lot of the character was simply there already,” he stated. “I immediately might entry him once more, prefer it was yesterday that we wrapped the primary one. It was simply all there. So, the work and preparation and determining the character is nearly intuitive, which is fairly cool. It’s a really unusual factor, however I’m attempting to benefit from the trip, as a lot as I can.”
“It: Welcome to Derry” premieres this fall on HBO and HBO Max. Try the teaser beneath.