‘Welcome To Derry’: Bill Skarsgård To Reprise Pennywise Role In ‘It’ Prequel On Max

EXCLUSIVE: A familiar face is coming back to terrorize the children of Derry, Maine. Bill Skarsgård is set to star in and executive produce the Max original series Welcome To Derry (working title). He will be reprising his role as It/Pennywise from the hit 2017 New Line movie It and its sequel, It Chapter Two.

On the Warner Bros. Television-produced series, Skarsgård is reuniting with other key auspices from the It film franchise, the two movies’ director Andy Muschietti, producer Barbara Muschietti and Chapter Two co-producer Jason Fuchs, who developed together the TV adaptation of the Stephen King horror classic, as well as the films’ other producers, Roy Lee and Dan Lin. Andy Muschietti will direct four episodes of the nine-episode series. 

Set in the world of King’s It universe, Welcome To Derry (wt) expands the vision established by filmmaker Andy Muschietti in the feature films, which amassed a combined $1.17 billion worldwide.

The series stems from a story by Andy Muschietti, Barbara Muschietti, and Fuchs based on the King’s novel It. Andy Muschietti and Barbara Muschietti executive produce through their Double Dream production company alongside Fuchs, Brad Caleb Kane, David Coatsworth, Skarsgård, Shelley Meals, Lee and Lin are executive producers. Fuchs, who wrote the teleplay for the first episode, and Kane serve as co-showrunners on the series.

Skarsgård joins previously cast Taylour Paige, Jovan Adepo, Chris Chalk, and James Remar.

This marks Skarsgård’s return to King’s streaming TV universe and a reunion with WBTV after he starred in the studio’s King-inspired Hulu series Castle Rock.

Recently seen in John Wick: Chapter 4, Skarsgård is coming up in The Crow, Nosferatu, Locked and Emperor. He is repped by WME, Magnolia Entertainment, Hirsch Wallerstein Hayum Matlof and Fishman and Narrative.