Invoice Skarsgård is again in Derry, Maine, to terrorize some children in “It: Welcome to Derry,” the upcoming prequel sequence to the current movie diversifications of Stephen King’s “It” that guarantees to ship not simply one other terrifying story of a killer clown, however a correct origin story for Skargård’s Pennywise the Clown.
This is good news for everybody who was scared out of their minds again in 2017 when Skarsgård first performed Pennywise, as he was a giant a part of why that film was so profitable. It appears apparent that Skarsgård would reprise his position within the TV present as he’s the one piece of connective tissue between the prequel sequence and the unique story, however the actor initially was fairly hesitant to return.
Within the November 2025 concern of SFX Journal, co-creator and executive-producer Andy Muschietti shared that Skarsgård struggled with returning to Derry. “I feel he was just a little hesitant at the start to play It once more as a result of he’s one thing that he did prior to now,” Andy Muschietti defined. “Additionally, at that time, once we began speaking in regards to the sequence as one thing that was actual and tangible, he had performed numerous very darkish characters, and he was just a little hesitant to enter it once more.” He defined, “As a result of, clearly, for somebody who takes his work and his artwork so significantly as him, it takes a toll to stay within the head of these characters for a very long time.”
Muschietti continued, “So he was just a little hesitant at the start — after which one thing modified … I assume that we began once more, going into it and discussing all of the virtues of this new story, and he determined to do it.”
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It is comprehensible that Skarsgård would have doubts about taking part in Pennywise once more, contemplating he is not solely been given numerous villain roles within the years since “It,” however particularly provided that Skarsgård additionally lately performed one other big film monster in Depend Orlok in “Nosferatu.”
Based on Muschietti’s sister Barbara, who co-created and govt produced the present, defined that that they had talked about including much more exploration of Bob Grey to the “It” motion pictures and later “Welcome to Derry.” Based on the producer, “We even had mentioned making a 3rd film about Bob Grey earlier than he was taken over by It and have become Pennywise.”
We do not know a lot about It, apart from it is an interdimensional being who’s billions of years previous and presumably visited different planets earlier than arriving on Earth. Although we do not anticipate to study that rather more in regards to the entity in Welcome to Derry,” it appears we’ll study extra in regards to the man who It took over when it turned Pennywise. We realized about Bob Grey in “It: Chapter Two,” a human clown who has a putting resemblance to Pennywise with out make-up, however we do not know a lot about his story, at the very least not but.
As for Skarsgård, the actor has talked prior to now about how a lot Pennywise modified his life, how a lot he put into the position, and the way a lot he scared his little one co-stars. It is comprehensible to not need to repeat oneself. Nonetheless, “It” would not be the identical with out Skarsgård, so it is nice information he was satisfied to return in spite of everything.
