By Bill Skarsgård (“John Wick: Chapter 4,” “Boy Kills World”) is set to reprise his role of the monstrous Pennywise the Clown from the two “IT” films in the upcoming prequel series “Welcome to Derry” on Max reports Deadline.
Skarsgård will both star in and executive produce the series whilst the film’s director Andy Muschietti will direct four of the nine-episode run.
Muschietti along with sister Barbara Muschietti and Jason Fuchs will executive produce alongside Brad Caleb Kane, David Coatsworth, Shelley Meals, Roy Lee and Dan Lin.
Fuchs wrote the teleplay for the first episode and serves as co-showrunner with Kane. The project is set in the same universe as the films based on the Stephen King novel.
Taylour Paige, Jovan Adepo, Chris Chalk, and James Remar co-star in the series which is expected to be set several decades before the events of the first “IT” during Pennywise’s prior ‘cycle’.
The hiring comes as the actor was quoted in an Esquire magazine interview recently as saying Warner Bros. Pictures was “kind of mean” when it released a first-look image of the actor in character online over a full year before release.
The then 26-year-old actor, already nervous over taking the job, found himself on the receiving end of harsh internet criticism who were against the look.
Skarsgård will soon be seen later this year in remakes of “The Crow” and “Nosferatu”.
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