The folks at New Line Cinema have cast the role of Pennywise the clown in the new adaptation of Stephen King’s It. Bill Skarsgard (Hemlock Grove, The Divergent Series: Allegiant) will play the iconic role in the new film, which also stars Jaeden Lieberher, Finn Wolfhard, Jack Dylan Grazer, Wyatt Oleff, Chosen Jacobs and Jeremy Ray Taylor.
Andy Muschietti is directing the movie, which will be actually released in two parts. It will be based on King’s novel, which was originally published back in 1986, and then adapted into a film for the first time four years later in 1990.
Here’s the plot.
To the children, the town was their whole world. To the adults, knowing better, Derry Maine was just their home town: familiar, well-ordered for the most part. A good place to live.
It was the children who saw – and felt – what made Derry so horribly different. In the storm drains, in the sewers, IT lurked, taking on the shape of every nightmare, each one’s deepest dread. Sometimes IT reached up, seizing, tearing, killing . . .
The adults, knowing better, knew nothing.
Time passed and the children grew up, moved away. The horror of IT was deep-buried, wrapped in forgetfulness. Until they were called back, once more to confront IT as IT stirred and coiled in the sullen depths of their memories, reaching up again to make their past nightmares a terrible present reality.
Shooting will start later this year.
