In 1990, the TV miniseries adaptation of Stephen King‘s thousand-page-plus tome “It” gave viewers the first screen incarnation of Pennywise, the creepy-as-hell clown in the story. And while we’ll have to mourn that two-part, film version of the story that Cary Fukunaga was cooking up at one point, “It” is still coming and now we have our first peek at the evil that will be at the center of the new movie.
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Bill Skarsgard has put on the face paint to play Pennywise, in the film that has Andrés Muschietti (“Mama“) at the helm. And the actor seems eager to embrace the character that acts as a symbol of some very specific fears.
“It’s such an extreme character. Inhumane,” he told EW. “It’s beyond even a sociopath, because he’s not even human. He’s not even a clown. I’m playing just one of the beings It creates.”
“It” opens on September 8, 2017.
