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It prequel series Welcome To Derry has been shared.HBO Max‘s series will run for nine episodes and will see It director Andy Muschietti return along with Bill Skarsgård as Pennywise. Producer Barbara Muschietti and co-producer Jason Fuchs will also return for Welcome To Derry.Specific plot details have yet to be announced but the show is expected to serve as a prequel story that will “expand the vision” of 2017’s It and 2019’s It: Chapter Two, movies.It is set to air at some point in 2025.

28 Years Later.The new preview for Final Destination Bloodlines, which follows a family escaping various horrific fates after their grandmother cheated death years ago, launched March 25, ahead of the film’s May 14 UK release.According to a report by Deadline, the grizzly clip achieved 178.7million views in 24 hours across all platforms worldwide, second only to 2017’s IT in terms of viewership, and surpassing the total achieved by 28 Years Later in the same time period.Fans will have one last chance to see Tony Todd as William Bludworth, the sinister funeral director who informs future victims of the “rules” of death. This will mark his fourth appearance as the character in the six-film series, having also made a voice cameo in Final Destination 3.Todd passed away last November, aged 69, with his cause of death undisclosed.

HBO Max‘s It prequel series Welcome To Derry has scored its Pennywise – and it’s a returning Bill Skarsgård.Skarsgård, who famously donned the clown makeup in 2017’s It and 2019’s It: Chapter Two, has been confirmed to reprise his role as the creepy intergalactic clown-looking creature known as Pennywise for the upcoming TV prequel series.Per a Deadline report, Skarsgård will rejoin the two movies’ director Andy Muschietti, producer Barbara Muschietti and Chapter Two co-producer Jason Fuchs for Welcome To Derry.Welcome To Derry is tapped to run for nine episodes, with Muschietti in the director’s seat for four of its episodes. A release date for Welcome To Derry has yet to be announced.Skarsgård previously said in March 2023 that he wasn’t involved in the prequel series, though he left the door open for a future return.2019’s It: Chapter Two scored a four-star review, with NME‘s Alex Flood writing: “For the most part, Muschietti’s sequel is a tightly-constructed potboiler that balances humour and horror in a satisfying way.

It, and then again in 2019’s It Chapter Two.In a new interview with Esquire, Skarsgård admitted that he was nervous about taking over the mantle from Tim Curry, who previously portrayed the character in the 1990 mini-series.“When you are 26, you don’t feel young at all, but now, looking back at it, I was a kid,” he said. “It was fairly early on in my career to take on something that had so many eyeballs and expectations on it.”The actor then explained why he thought it was “mean” for the studio to share first-look images of his Pennywise before the film’s release, given his worries about fan expectations.“They did a thing that I felt was kind of mean.

IT, has just opened in Las Vegas.Escape IT: Pennywise Room Of Horror recreates the small town of Derry, Maine, home to killer clown Pennywise. Produced by Warner Bros.

It prequel series on HBO Max.The infamous clown will be given an origin story in the new series set in the 1960s called Welcome to Derry, according to Variety.It: Part One and It: Part Two director Andy Muschietti is on board to executive produce the series alongside Barbara Muschietti and Jason Fuschs.HBO Max and WBTV have declined requests for comment at the time of writing, and there is no word on further plot or cast details yet.Back in 2017, Bill Skarsgård explained why he took on the role of Pennywise in a conversation with NME.“I was excited just to even audition for [Pennywise]. I’m in my mid-twenties, so the roles I’m usually going up for are characters that might be fun, but they’re all pretty close to me,” he said.“They tend to look like you and talk like you and are the same age as you.

Stranger Things star Finn Wolfhard was thrust into fame when he was just a child, and had to find out the hard way about the dangerous realities of being in the public eye. Finn, now 17, wasn’t just being harassed by teenage girls when the hit Netflix show premiered in 2016. Full grown adults were stalking him, too, he revealed in an interview with Mastermind magazine. “When I was 13, some adults followed me back to my condo when I was shooting It. Stranger Things had just come out, and I was by myself,” Finn told the magazine.