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


Bill Skarsgård is set to star in and executive produce the Max original series Welcome To Derry (working title).

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

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