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Bill Skarsgård is coming soon with his new Pennywise look!
As Bill Skarsgård formally returns to his scary character in HBO's much-awaited prequel series, ‘IT: Welcome to Derry’, Pennywise's terrifying legacy endures. Fans get an eerie look at the beginnings of the evil spirit that has afflicted Derry for decades in the first teaser trailer, which was released recently.
By exploring the town's troubled past in greater detail, the new series builds upon the cinematic universe created by Andy Muschietti's ‘IT’ (2017) and ‘IT: Chapter Two’ (2019). The show examines the origins of darkness in Derry, Maine, and is set in 1962, years before the events of the original movies.
A young boy hitchhiking alone at night is seen in the trailer's opening scene, indicating anxiety right away. An early indication that the town is not without its horrors is the child's unsettling insistence that they take him somewhere other than Derry after being picked up by a couple who volunteer to help.
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As the narrative progresses, viewers are presented with a family that is unfamiliar to Derry, played by Jovan Adepo and Taylour Paige. Their arrival is a foreboding prelude to the evil powers at work, occurring only months after the unexplained disappearance of a local girl whose body was never discovered. The tone is sombre as one local child blatantly implies that what transpired constitutes murder.
Derry's troubling past starts to resurface in the trailer. Children talk about things adults would never believe and murmur about voices in the pipes. The kids start looking into the town's troubled past in spite of a local police officer (played by James Remar) telling them to avoid becoming involved in official affairs. What they find points to a pattern of unsettling events and increasing peril.
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As pandemonium breaks out—things smash, kids scream, and dread takes over—the teaser builds to a terrifying crescendo. At last, in a terrifying scene, Pennywise, played by Bill Skarsgård, appears in a sewer tube, his trademark chuckle signalling his ominous reappearance.
In addition to Bill Skarsgård's comeback as a menacing clown, Rudy Mancuso, Madeleine Stowe, Stephen Rider, and Chris Chalk are in the cast. The most recent adaptation of the ‘IT’ franchise, after the 1990 miniseries, the 1998 film ‘Woh’, and the contemporary film duology, is based on Stephen King's 1986 horror novel.
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Executive producers Andy and Barbara Muschietti, acting under the Double Dream brand, are in charge of ‘IT: Welcome to Derry’. Other cast members include Jason Fuchs, Brad Caleb Kane, David Coatsworth, Shelley Meals, Roy Lee, Dan Lin, and Skarsgård himself.
HBO has announced that ‘IT: Welcome to Derry’ will debut on HBO and Max this autumn, offering viewers a return to one of the most recognisable places in horror—and the malevolent force that inhabits it.
–Farheen Ali
