Pennywise the Dancing Clown is officially making his way to the small screen. The villain was originally introduced in , which followed seven children who get terrorized by an evil entity in the form of a dancing clown. Throughout the book, readers were offered a glimpse into Pennywise’s since the monster only appears every 27 years before disappearing again.
In 1990, ABC adapted the spooky story into a two-part miniseries, which featured as the demonic clown. “I off quite a few people here and there, one way or another,” Curry recalled to in 2021 about his transformation. “But Pennywise turns out not to be that physical, actually — it’s mostly mental cruelty.
What’s fun about him is that a clown is traditionally a very cozy, comforting kind of cheery image, and Pennywise is none of these things. I think of him all the time as a smile gone bad — that’s my image for him.” The source material was recreated again in and , with .
“Tim Curry’s performance was amazing. It was such a good interpretation of Stephen King’s character in the book,” Skarsgård exclusively told in 2017. “We were making a new film, a new adaptation of the book.
Of course, I wanted to bring something different and unique to it. Otherwise, I don’t see the point in remaking something. I hope that people can consider both performances separately and appreciate them for what they are.
” The actor admitted that he felt some self doubt about his performance. “I think the first .
