Spoilers under for “It: Welcome to Derry.”
Stephen King is weighing in on the terrifying return of Pennywise the Dancing Clown.
The horror legend just lately shared his ideas on HBO’s “It: Welcome to Derry,” the new prequel collection increasing the universe of his iconic 1986 “It” novel — and even he’s spooked.
“I like ‘Welcome to Derry’ quite a bit,” King, 78, completely instructed The Publish. “There are many horrors and many surreal visuals. There’s a grocery store scare that sticks in my thoughts, full with pickle jars.”
The bestselling writer went on to reward Andy Muschietti, the filmmaker who helmed each blockbuster “It” films and who has since returned to direct “It: Welcome to Derry” alongside his sister, Barbara Muschietti.
“Andy Muschietti has acquired a contact of genius relating to scares,” the King of Horror shared. “Of us are going to see some scenes of their nightmares.”
As for Pennywise, King teased that longtime followers of the franchise received’t be disenchanted.
Invoice Skarsgård, who portrayed the killer dancing clown within the 2017 and 2019 movies, has returned to the position for the brand new prequel collection.
“When Pennywise lastly seems, he’s nonetheless scary as hell,” the author concluded.
The creators of “It: Welcome to Derry” praised King forward of the present’s premiere final weekend.
After explaining how the prequel collection was born, Andy revealed that the “Shining” writer was concerned within the prequel’s manufacturing “from a really cheap perspective.”
“He’s not controlling every thing we do, despite the fact that he’s blessing and screening every thing that we present him,” the “Flash” filmmaker, 52, instructed The Publish. “In fact, he’s clearly verbal when he doesn’t like one thing. However more often than not, he appears very excited and open to this creation.”
“He’s an ideal human being, too,” Barbara, 53, added.
Brad Caleb Kane, who serves as showrunner of “It: Welcome to Derry” alongside Jason Fuchs, went on to credit score King with “godfathering” the brand new prequel collection set a long time earlier than the occasions of “It” and “It Chapter Two.”
“He was principally very beneficiant along with his creation and along with his universe,” Kane, 52, instructed The Publish. “He mentioned: ‘Right here it’s. I’ve written all of it down – mess around in it.’”
“We shared it with him as we wrote it, and he guided us,” he added.
“We needed to do one thing that he’d be ok with and be happy with,” the “Argylle” author, 39, mentioned. “We have been thrilled, this previous week, he put out a Thread saying he’d seen it and liked it. And episode one was terrifying.”
“That was a good way to enter this entire launch of the present,” Fuchs added. “It was very, very thrilling to see.”
“It: Welcome to Derry” kicked off on HBO and HBO Max on Sunday, Oct. 26.
The premiere episode begins with younger, pacifier-sucking Matty Clements (Miles Ekhardt) sneaking right into a screening of “The Music Man” at Derry’s Capital Theater. After being caught, he hitchhikes out of city to flee his troubles.
However Matty’s experience with a seemingly form household shortly spirals into nightmare gasoline when the mom goes into labor, giving beginning to a grotesque, winged creature that assaults everybody within the automobile.
Matty’s pacifier falls right into a sewer earlier than he’s dragged into the darkness.
Months later, a bunch of native youngsters made up of Teddy (Mikkal Karim Fidler), Phil (Jack Molloy Legault), Lilly (Clara Stack), Ronnie (Amanda Christine) and Phil’s little sister Susie (Matilda Legault) are nonetheless haunted by Matty’s disappearance.
Obsessive about discovering out what actually occurred to their good friend, the group finally ends up again on the Capital Theater.
Naturally, the evening takes a bloody flip when the lights start to flicker, the projector sputters and the identical winged creature from the opening emerges from the display.
Chaos erupts as the youngsters are attacked, and the theater is crammed with screams earlier than the episode involves a sudden cliffhanging finish.
Whereas new episodes of “It: Welcome to Derry” are scheduled to launch on HBO and HBO Max on Sunday nights, the present’s second episode dropped early on Friday, Oct. 31, in celebration of Halloween.
