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With the modern movie adjustment of Stephen King’sITset to break box agency platter this weekend , eager eyes are looking towards the corroborate sequel - with thespian Bill Skarsgard tease thatITPart 2 will take us further into the psyche of the orca clown Pennywise .
It ’s always difficult for an actor to take on an iconic office , countenance alone in the horror musical style , where the terror is built on the reputation of the lusus naturae and sequent orca who keep occur back for more scares . One of the iconic B - list horror operation came from Tim Curry ’s over - the - top maniac glee as kid - preying clown Pennywise in the 1990 TV miniskirt - seriesIT.With a new version of Stephen King ’s originalITnovel creeping into theaters 27 years later , Skarsgard had big shoes to fill . However , if theITtrailersand former bombilation are any indicant , the new actor more than live up to expectations .
In an interview with UK news outletMetro , Skarsgard and his youngITcostar Jaeden Lieberher discourse all aspects of the horror adaptation , including the already - design sequel . WhileITcertainly seems to have it share of killer clown , Skarsgard seemed eager to speak about the next photographic film , which will explore the Pennywise entity more in - depth and really get into why it terrorizes these tike :
I am impound to it but that ’s all I can say , we ’re in the early microscope stage and I ’m babble out to [ IT conductor Andy Muschietti ] about it and visualize out what it will be . It ’s a unlike story but I ’m excited to delve in deeper to the character as there ’s more exploration for who Pennywise is .
For those unfamiliar with theITstory , the entity comes back to stamp out small fry in the townspeople of Derry every 27 age . The first half of King ’s novel follows a group of Thomas Kid as they front - off with the clown , while the 2d part picks up with the same minor as adult , now facing the monster yet again later in their life . The firstITfilm just concentre on the portion of the novel with the kids - and address toMetro , Skarsgard state that he likes how the firstITmovie progresses the audience ’s understanding of Pennywise ( as apparatus for the subsequence ):
There is profoundness and a change in Pennywise from the first scene to the last and there ’s a journey there , and I ’m beaming you said that and it come across with you - that ’s exactly what I want people to finger , “ hold back a mo what is this thing ? ” And I cogitate that ’s what I wanted and that ’s where I need to go for the 2d one , to delve into the psychological and metaphysical spaces of this transdimensional being .
We ’ll get to see how Skarsgard captivate the psychological and physical terror of the Pennywise character whenIThits theaters on Friday .
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rootage : Metro