First look at Pennywise from the new version of Stephen King’s ‘It’

First look at Pennywise the clown, played by Bill Skarsgard in the new version of the Master Of Horror’s classic tale.

Your first look at Pennywise comes ahead of the film’s 2017 release.

Ahead of its release next September, we have been treated to our first look at Bill Skårsgard as Pennywise the clown in the new adaptation of Stephen King‘s It – the role was previously played by Tim Curry in the previous version. Your first look at Pennywise comes courtesy of Entertainment Weekly.

Take a look.

First look at Pennywise

“Tim Curry’s performance was truly great, but it’s important for me to do something different because of that”, Skårsgard told EW. “I’ll never be able to make a Tim Curry performance as good as Tim Curry”.

“It’s such an extreme character. Inhumane,” Skarsgård continues. “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.”

Stephen King’s It was first published in 1986, and it is though that the new film version will be split into two parts, the first being released on September 8th, 2017. Mama helmer Andrés Muschietti will be directing the new version, which is now shooting.

Here’s the synopsis from Stephen King’s official website.

A promise made twenty-eight years ago calls seven adults to reunite in Derry, Maine, where as teenagers they battled an evil creature that preyed on the city’s children. Unsure that their Losers Club had vanquished the creature all those years ago, the seven had vowed to return to Derry if IT should ever reappear. Now, children are being murdered again and their repressed memories of that summer return as they prepare to do battle with the monster lurking in Derry’s sewers once more.

We hope you like the first look at Pennywise above, and look forward to the new version of the story. Should be good.