First Look at Bill Skarsgård as Pennywise in 2017’s IT

Production continues on the new adaptation of Stephen King’s It, the seemingly ill-fated movie that has gone through directors and stars like normal movies go through popcorn sales. While we know the movie isn’t set to premiere until September 2017, we still hear about it all the time. The movie is almost a bad luck charm.

Currently, the film is set to premiere with Mama director Andrés Muschietti and Hemlock Grove star Bill Skarsgård as Pennywise, and I for one am pulling for it. That being said, a new picture of Pennywise was released yesterday along with an interview with Skarsgård at Entertainment Weekly, seem to show a Pennywise we may not recognize.

“It’s such an extreme character. Inhumane,” Skarsgård tells the outlet. “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 truly enjoys the shape of the clown Pennywise, and enjoys the game and the hunt. What’s funny to this evil entity might not be funny to everyone else. But he thinks it’s funny.”

EW also confirmed that the film, unlike the book, will be set in the present day with the 1980s as the past backdrop for the loser’s club. The film will still be premiered in two parts, with the first in September 2017 to tell the story of the younger versions and their experiences and the second to tell the repercussions of their choices.

It tells the story of a promise made by seven kids in a small town of Derry, Maine in regards to a vicious monster clown that was terrorizing their town. They agreed to return if the killings of this monster ever began again, and It shows them returning to defeat the monster.

You may remember the old miniseries from 1990 directed by Tommy Lee Wallace and featuring Tim Curry as Pennywise. Here’s to hoping this round will top the last!

Check the photo below and let us know what you think!