Invoice Skarsgård is again in Derry, Maine, to terrorize some youngsters 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 proper 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 an enormous a part of why that film was so profitable. It appears apparent that Skarsgård would reprise his function 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 challenge of SFX Magazine, co-creator and executive-producer Andy Muschietti shared that Skarsgård struggled with returning to Derry. “I feel he was a little bit hesitant at first 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 quite a lot of very darkish characters, and he was a little bit 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 a little bit hesitant at first — after which one thing modified … I suppose 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 quite a lot of villain roles within the years since “It,” however particularly provided that Skarsgård additionally recently played another huge movie monster in Count Orlok in “Nosferatu.”
In line with Muschietti’s sister Barbara, who co-created and govt produced the present, defined that they’d talked about including much more exploration of Bob Grey to the “It” motion pictures and later “Welcome to Derry.” In line with 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, aside from it is an interdimensional being who’s billions of years outdated and presumably visited different planets earlier than arriving on Earth. Although we do not count on to be taught that rather more in regards to the entity in Welcome to Derry,” it appears we are going to be taught 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, not less than not but.
As for Skarsgård, the actor has talked prior to now about how much Pennywise changed his life, how a lot he put into the function, and the way a lot he scared his baby 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.
