The kids of 1962 Derry, Maine, have already been tormented by plenty of gruesome incarnations of IT, the supernatural monster that haunts their town. But, there is one manifestation in particular that has yet to make his grand entrance in HBO’s prequel series Welcome to Derry: Bill Skarsgård’s Pennywise the Dancing Clown. Withholding Pennywise from the first half of the prequel is a strategic move, Jason Fuchs and Brad Caleb Kane agree. After two IT movies from Welcome to Derry director-producer Andy Muschietti (and a previous two-part television adaptation directed by Tommy Lee Wallace), the creatives behind the prequel series were expecting audiences to be somewhat desensitized to this particular horror franchise. So, they dialed up the scares. >>>Read The Interview |