IT Actor Wants Chapter 2 to 'Go Into the Mind of Pennywise'

It Chapter Two

The Losers defeated the child - eating creature lurking in Derry , but only temporarily , as IT will come back for retaliation inIT : Chapter Two , in which actor Bill Skarsgård desire will go into the mind of the killer clown . Andrés Muschetti ’s take on Stephen King ’s novelkeepsbreaking office recordsand getting extolment from critics and audiences likewise , which naturally head to the studiogreen - lighting the sequel .

IT : Chapter Onetells only one-half of the narration , following a group of kids self - nominate " The Losers ’ Club ” as they make out case to face with an evil form - shifting entity ( whose preferent form is that of Pennywise , the Dancing Clown ) and are forced to confront their biggest fear . Chapter Twowill follow the group 27 year later , as IT arouse and commencement feeding again . The first film focused on the youngster more than the creature they were fighting , and Bill Skarsgård – who plays Pennywise – hopes that the sequel goes deeply into the mind of his character as well as his cosmological backstory .

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In an interview withIGNat New York Comic Con , Skarsgård talk about his hopes for the continuation and how he would care it to set about the backstory of Pennywise , stating that the correct way to do the grownup side of the story would be by make it“actively different”and explore the psychological side of repugnance .

“ The first movie worked so well at what it is assay to do , I conceive , and ultimately that is the kids ’ narrative , and you sort of lessen in sexual love with these kids . And the second one will be the grownup story . And I conceive the right agency to do it is to make that movie actively different . I mean there might be deserving exploring sort of the psychological aspects of horror , but also maybe the kind of cosmologic existence of this being . What is he , and where does he come from ? ”

In the novel , IT ’s backstory is partially explained , having originate in the Macroverse as well as its lifelike enemy , the Turtle , creator of our universe . It ’s suggest that IT and the Turtle are creations of a freestanding , all-powerful Godhead referred to as “ the Other ” . IT is generally referred to as male person , but is later shown as a female when taking its final physical signifier : a prominent female wanderer . However , IT ’s natural form only subsist in an inter - dimensional land referred to as the “ deadlight ” , described as writhing , destruct orangish light which will push any living being harebrained . In ordering to defeat IT , the Losers have to go to extremes , which Skarsgård think will be interesting to explore in the continuation .

“ And , you know , it ’s just answered in the novel , either . I intend , it ’s very abstract . And I kind of like that . IT could be almost a sort of [ serialized ] sort of psychedelic trip if you go into the mind of Pennywise . And if you ’ve read the novel you know that they do actually go into his mind . Or they go into this transdimensional spot , and they sort of beat him in this place . Which might be interesting , what that place would be , and what would it depend like . There ’s opportunities , I think , and I ’m excited for it . ”

IT : Chapter Oneincluded insidious hints at the Turtle , the Macroverse , and the deadlights , so it would be a sound move from the writers to dig into IT ’s cosmological backstory in the sequel , with the only challenge being making it believable – which is something they achieve with the first movie . It will be especially interesting to see how they will present the net battle in the sequel , as the way the Losers vote down IT in the novel – both when they were new and when they are adults – is completely different from how they did so in the first photographic film .