Bill Skarsgård is back as Pennywise for the It prequel Welcome to Derry , and like the movies, the show will use him when the scary situation truly calls for it.

Talking to SFX Magazine , co-showrunner Andy Muschietti likened the clown’s appearances in the show to the shark in Jaws : “It’s very appropriate for a monster that is a shapeshifter to appear in several different shapes and manifestations before he shows up as a clown,” he said. “The idea is building tension around the apparition of a monster that we know already, and people are waiting – when is it going to appear?”

A simple idea, sure, but one Muschietti and his co-showrunner (and sister) Barbara say more than works for Welcome to Derry . The latter called the new creations cooked up for the show “pretty damn

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