IT: Welcome To Derry's Full Trailer (Finally!) Offers A Good Look At Pennywise — Watch
HBO's forthcoming IT prequel series has played coy in showing its central, nightmarish clown... until now.
The network released the full trailer for IT: Welcome to Derry on Tuesday. You can watch it in full — including a close-up of Pennywise, who's only been shown obliquely in previously released footage — at the top of this post.
Just in time for Halloween, IT: Welcome to Derry will hit the cabler (and streamer HBO Max) on Sunday, October 26. The horror-drama's first season will span eight episodes, with the finale airing on Dec. 14. Keep scrolling for the teaser (which also will creep you out thoroughly).
Based on Stephen King's IT novel, first published in 1986, Welcome to Derry "expands the vision" established by director Andy Muschietti in the films IT and IT Chapter Two, which respectively released in 2017 and 2019. Not much else is known about the project's plot (besides what's shown in the trailer, of course), but Bill Skarsgård is confirmed to reprise his role of Pennywise the Dancing Clown, who he played in both of Muschietti's movies. Muschietti is also among the series' writers and executive producers, and he directed four of the upcoming episodes.
Other IT: Welcome to Derry cast members include Taylour Paige (Hit the Floor), Jovan Adepo (3 Body Problem), Chris Chalk (Gotham), James Remar (Dexter: Resurrection), Stephen Rider (Marvel's Daredevil), Madeleine Stowe (Revenge) and Rudy Mancuso (Amigos).
"As teenagers, we took turns reading chapters of Stephen King's IT until the thick paperback fell to pieces," Muschietti and his sister, Barbara (also an executive producer), said when Welcome to Derry was first ordered in February 2023. "IT is an epic story that contains multitudes, far beyond what we could explore in our IT movies. We can't wait to share the depths of Steve's novel, in all its heart, humor, humanity and horror."
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