Between Boy Kills World, The Crow and Robert Eggers’ upcoming Nosferatu, 2024 has been a veritable feast for Bill Skarsgård fans – and it just got better, with the news that he’ll be reprising his role as Pennywise the Clown in the upcoming Max It prequel series Welcome To Derry.
The nine-episode series from Warner Bros. Television, which was originally scheduled to premiere this Halloween, will release sometime in 2025.
Deadline, who reported the news yesterday, also tell us that, along with starring, Skarsgård is also set to executive produce the series, which serves as a prequel to Andy Muschietti’s 2017 Stephen King adaptations It and its sequel It Chapter Two.
Starring alongside Skarsgård are Taylour Paige (Zola), Jovan Adepo (Watchmen), Chris Chalk (Perry Mason), James Remar (Oppenheimer), Madeleine Stowe (Revenge) and Stephen Rider (Daredevil).
Muschietti is also set to set to direct four episodes of the nine episodes, and will also executive produce alongside Barbara Muschietti through their Double Dream production company, as well as Jason Fuchs, Brad Caleb Kane, David Coatsworth, Shelley Meals, Roy Lee and Dan Lin.
Fuchs (Wonder Woman, Ice Age: Continental Drift) and Kane (Black Sails, Tokyo Vice) serve as co-showrunners.
Set in the world of Muschietti’s It, Welcome to Derry:
“… will begin in the 1960s in the time leading up to the events of It: Part One, the 2017 film based on the Stephen King horror novel. The story is also said to include the origin story of Pennywise the Clown.”
As previously speculated by Fango’s own THE KINGCAST King Scott Wampler, this could mean we end up learning the history of The Black Spot, or seeing more of Pennywise’s earliest time on Earth, while also telling a new tale set in the ’60s.
Welcome to Derry is, of course, not the first time Pennywise’s tale has been told on the small screen, with 1990’s It (starring Tim Curry as the creepy clown) being the first filmed adaptation of King’s 1986 novel.
Welcome to Derry will also not be Skarsgård’s first time at the King television series rodeo, as the Barbarian star previously starred in Hulu’s Castle Rock series.
Stay tuned for more updates on Welcome to Derry as they float in…
