It: Welcome to Derry revisits the world of Andy Muschietti's It and It Chapter Two , acting as a prequel. Set for an October 26 release, the series will take place 27 years before the films, and Bill Skarsgard will reprise his role as Pennywise the Dancing Clown.
During ScreenRant 's It: Welcome to Derry interview with executive producers Andy and Barbara Muschietti, the latter addressed how the series approached bringing the villain into Welcome to Derry : " It's been very important, from the first movie, to treat him as a very unpredictable character. In order to do that, you cannot have the audience get comfortable with him. "
" I've said this before, but he is our shark ," she continued. " You've got to bring him out with all his complexity in the right moments, o