Pennywise the clown finally shows his face in episode five of HBO’s 1960s prequel series IT: Welcome to Derry, with Bill Skarsgård reprising his role from the IT movies.
Set in the 1960s, four kids in a town bordering an Air Force base with a mysterious “Special Projects” bunker search for friend of theirs who disappeared mysteriously.
The kids from town and the soldiers from the base see different versions of Pennywise in the sewers beneath Derry .
The kids see Pennywise as a clown who rises and floats from the reanimated corpse of their friend Matty Clements. who was abducted in the premiere.
The soldiers see Pennywise as more of a distorted and horrific manifestation of Uncle Sam.
IT: Welcome to Derry is based on Stephen King’s It horror novel and expands on filmmaker Andy Muschietti’s vision established in the box office smashes It and It: Chapter Two.
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The prequel series is popular scoring HBO’s third biggest series debut (after #1 House of the Dragon and #2 The Last of Us) with 5.7 million viewers in its first three days.
Welcome to Derry Season One:
Working title: Fairview.
Pre-strike filming dates: May 01 2023 – production paused on July 14 2023.
Post-strike filming dates: February 12, 2024 – July 26 2024.
Showrunners: Jason Fuchs, Brad Caleb Kane.
Director: Andy Muschietti, who directed It: Part One & It: Part Two, directs some of the series.
Cast: Bill Skarsgård’, Taylour Paige, Jovan Adepo, Chris Chalk, James Remar, Madelaine Stowe, Stephen Rider.
Producers: Bill Skarsgård’, Double Dream, Warner Bros. Television.
Filming locations:
Port Hope, Ontario, transformed into Derry, Maine for the film franchise, with Port Hope Municipal Hall playing the Derry Public Library and many other changes.
Welcome to Derry filming in Toronto in June 2023.
"Fairview" aka "Welcome to Derry", the TV series prequel to the IT franchise filming in Toronto yesterday stars Madeleine Stowe, James Remar and Chris Chalk. @TOFilming_EM pic.twitter.com/qOQeitP9f2
— Andrew Thomas (@andrewbent) June 20, 2023