Pennywise’s First Assault In IT Prequel Collection Revealed In Terrifying New Scene

IT: Welcome to Derry reveals Pennywise’s first terrifying assault in a scene proven at New York Comedian Con. The prequel to IT (2017) and IT Chapter Two (2019) is predicated on the interlude chapters of the unique Stephen King novel. The collection will reveal extra in regards to the backstory of Derry, Maine and the evil entity generally referred to as Pennywise.

Welcome to Derry‘s forged options Invoice Skarsgård reprising the position of Pennywise, which he beforehand performed in IT and IT Chapter Two. With the story set in 1962, 27 years earlier than the occasions of IT within the film timeline, there’s additionally a brand new forged of kids and adults in Derry.

Through the clip proven on the Welcome to Derry panel, Pennywise torments one of many new characters, Lily, in horrifying trend. In a grocery retailer, she sees a badly injured face inside a jar that she thinks is her father, just for it to be Pennywise. Try an outline of the clip beneath:

A lady (Lily) strolling by the grocery retailer. It will get more and more creepy — folks watching her from round corners and in aisles, cabinets transferring and shifting round her. At one level it feels like Pennywise says her identify. Ultimately, she finally ends up trapped by a bunch of cabinets lined with jars of pickles. One among them going through her has a slashed up face inside, and he or she says one thing terrible: “Daddy?”

The face begins talking to her, telling her to “give Daddy a kiss.” She tries to smash the jar, however then all of the jars round her begin flying off the cabinets and smashing on the bottom, revealing different rotten physique elements that begin to reform into her father, who will get nearer and nearer in search of a kiss. Proper earlier than it will get there, the whole lot reverts to regular, and Lily is surrounded by the folks from the shop her in concern and horror.

Along with the clip, co-creator and govt producer Andy Muschietti confirms that the collection is supposed to discover how Pennywise turns into the enduring Stephen King villain recognized by audiences. That evolution is already on show within the chilling clip during which Pennywise torments Lily in public.

Pennywise preys on the precise fears of its victims, and that’s precisely what it does by taking part in on Lily’s obvious fears involving her father, from taking up the type of his severed head, demanding a kiss, and the rotten physique elements within the different jars reworking into her father. Such a concern will probably proceed to be weaponized by Pennywise all through the season.

That is solely the primary of Pennywise’s many horrifying assaults to return in Welcome to Derry. Whereas Pennywise is in the end defeated in IT Chapter Two, this is not going to be the case within the prequel collection. Actually, Welcome to Derry‘s multi-season plan is for the present to be advised backwards throughout three seasons, with each happening 27 years earlier within the timeline throughout certainly one of Pennywise’s cycles.

Over the course of three seasons and three totally different generations, Pennywise’s assault on Lily within the grocery retailer will solely be the tip of the iceberg, with the entity’s manipulation inevitably turning into extra malevolent and violent.

Through the panel, it was additionally famous that the collection will discover why Pennywise sticks to Derry when it may go elsewhere. As seen within the clip, one benefit is the adults not understanding what is occurring to the youngsters, a well-known factor from the flicks and e-book that may proceed to be current in IT: Welcome to Derry.