Bill Skarsgård will return as Pennywise in “IT: Welcome to Derry,” but don’t expect to see the dancing clown until later in season.
“It is a shapeshifting creature, and in the movies there’s only so much space to see those non-Pennywise manifestations,” co-showrunner Jason Fuchs tells EW.
Director and co-creator Andy Muschietti, who likens the build in anticipation to the reveal of the shark in Jaws, adds, “If people are watching to be terrified, they will be terrified from the get-go.”
Serving as a prequel to Muschietti’s IT films based on Stephen King‘s 1986 novel, the eight-episode series premieres Sunday, October 26, at 9pm ET/PT on HBO and HBO Max.
The first season is set in 1962, with plans or the second season to take place in 1935 and the third season to be set in 1908.
Jovan Adepo (“The Stand”), Taylour Paige (The Toxic Avenger), Chris Chalk (“Gotham”), James Remar (“Dexter”), Stephen Rider (“Daredevil”), Madeleine Stowe (“Revenge”), and Rudy Mancuso (The Flash) star.
Alixandra Fuchs (Boogeyman Pop), Kimberly Guerrero (“Reservation Dogs”), Dorian Grey (Star Trek: Discovery), Thomas Mitchell (Spiral: From the Book of Saw), BJ Harrison (Rise of the Planet of the Apes), Peter Outerbridge (Saw VI), Shane Marriott (“Fargo”), Chad Rook (Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City), Joshua Odjick (The Long Walk), and Morningstar Angeline (“Echo”) round out the cast.
Fuchs, who wrote the script for the first episode, serves as co-showrunner alongside Brad Caleb Kane (“Crystal Lake”).
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